Salaam

 

Taher is a self-taught, second-generation artist with a love for words and poetic images. He enjoys creative writing, story-telling, (digital) painting, children’s books, creating cartoon characters, making robot-figures out of broken computer parts, football, chopping garlic and talking to kids and cats.

He is currently working as Creative Director at Yellow Submarine and the distinctive non-profit organisation, Alnowair – the team that conceptualised and executed memorable campaigns like The Yellow Parade (2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018), Let’s Not Phub, #OneMillionSmilesKuwait, TWL+ Conference, Bareec School Program, Boomerang’s Anti-bullying Program and YelloWorks.

Things Taher is super at:

Creative Direction (Mostly North)
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe In-design
Illustration
Hand-lettering
Creating Fonts
Digital Painting
Chopping garlic
Streets Of Rage
Finishing with his right foot

Things Taher is okay-ish at:

Adobe Animate
Blender
Marvelous Designer
Finishing with his left foot
(Quite rubbish, actually)

Things Taher loves:

Liverpool FC
Jurgen Klopp
Shawarmas
A good logo
Kindness
His wife
(She’s going to be livid about being last on this list)

Normally, he does not speak in third person.