Mohamed Aboushanab
Available November 2026
Services
Art Direction
Brand Identity & Systems
Campaign & Editorial Design
Selected clients
Metro Germany
Trivago
Ferrari MENA
Talabat
Cherry Jordan
COP28 UAE
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1. CV

Twelve years, seven countries, one job — deciding what a thing should look like and then making sure it survives production.

2. Experience
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3. Education
Rhine-Waal University
BA, Information and Communication Design
Kleve, Germany · Grade 1.7
2018–2021
Duisburg-Essen University
BA studies, Mechanical Engineering
Duisburg, Germany
2014–2018
4. Skills
Direction
Art direction and concept development
Photo and film shoot direction
Casting, styling and set direction
Creative team leadership
Design
Brand identity and guidelines
Typography and grid systems
Editorial, poster and packaging design
Motion basics and social formats
Production
Print artwork, pre-press, large format
Retouching and colour
Design QA across markets
Software
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects
Figma, Capture One, Blender
Ways of working
Agency and in-house, EMEA-wide
Briefing and feedback with non-designers
Working across Arabic and Latin type
Languages
Arabic — native
English — fluent
German — fluent
5. AI & design

I use AI the way I use a camera or a press — as production, not as direction. It compresses the boring part of the work so the thinking gets more of the week.

Where it earns its place
Moodboards and territory tests before a shoot
Set, location and wardrobe previsualisation
Background extension, clean-up and variant crops
Campaign adaptations across dozens of formats
Copy variants for headline testing
Tools
Midjourney, Firefly, Runway
Photoshop generative workflows
Claude and GPT for briefs, naming, copy passes
Where it does not
Final campaign imagery for real products
Anything a client would have to defend as documentary
Type, logo and layout decisions
The rule
Every AI-assisted asset is declared to the client
No trained-on-a-living-artist prompts
If it cannot be re-shot for real, it does not ship
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