About
As a Palestinian collective experimental designer, artist, architect, and performer, Michael focuses on the exploration and experimentation in design and artistic expression methodologies and technologies, to effectively connect and communicate with the users/audience and create a positive impact. With a diverse academic background between the creativity and technicalities of architectural engineering to the high level of experimentation in visual and experience design, and a local and international experience in multimedia artistic production since 2016, Michael has been working in the intersections between art, illustration, comics, graphic design, identity design, branding, animation, videography, multimedia production, theater, spatial design, UX/UI, and business entrepreneurship, with a focus on humanitarian and environmental causes.
Michael is an award-winning artist in different competitions, including the 1st place winner of Jerusalem Festival 2022 Poster Design Competition by Yabous Cultural Centre (Jerusalem-Palestine, 2022), the 1st place winner of the Graphic Illustration Category of the 6th Mahmoud Kahil Award (Beirut-Lebanon, 2021), and an honorable mention in the “Son of Favela” 24-hour IF-Ideas Forward comics competition (Portugal, 2018), in addition to others. Michael also participated in multiple collective exhibitions in Palestine and abroad, including his 2023 latest participations in “Tadaffuq/Flow/Fluir” Exhibition at Casa Árabe (Madrid & Córdoba, Spain), “The Gift Exhibition” at Al Ma’mal Foundation (Jerusalem, Palestine), “Liberation Street, Building No.48” comics exhibition (Ramallah, Palestine), as well as his first “solo” exhibition in collaboration with the Palestinian visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi, titled “Cold Water,” at Yabous Cultural Centre (Jerusalem, Palestine).
