Nathalie Fallaha

Who Is She

Organisations:

Company

Professions:

Director

Areas of expertise:

Design

Personal information

Founder, Design Principal

Nathalie Fallaha

What I have done for Lebanon

Every morning, I make sure that whatever it is I will be undertaking, it will have a positive impact on everyone around me. As a mother, a designer, a friend, a citizen. Conscious and positive citizenship.

Contact information / Private

763805 3 961

http://www.nathaliefallaha.com

Contact information / Work

Vit-e branding & digital

Postbox:

2022 1607

116, Myrtom house bldg.,Mexique str., Kantari

Beirut

Lebanon

Phone:

961 1 738621

nathalie@vit-e.com

http://www.vit-e.com

Education

Education:

Master's degree, Communication Design, 1999, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, United Kingdom.
Bachelor degree, Graphic Design, 1997, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
French Baccalaureate (Math), 1993, College Notre Dame de Jamhour, Lebanon.

Areas of expertise

Expertise:

Bilingual Typography
Graphic design
Multilinguism
User Experience / User interface

Languages:

English
French
Arabic

Work history

Jobs:

Owner & Design Principal, 2000 - present, vit-e branding & digital.

Faculty member, 2000 - 2009, Graphic design department, Lebanese American University.

Honorary office and memberships

Founding and board Member of Beirut Creative Cluster.
Member of the Advisory Board of Khatt Foundation, 2008.

Member of the Icograda Education Network (IEN).

Productions

Publications highlights:

Fallaha, N. Work and Essay. revolution/evolution Two Decades and Four Hundred Designers Later
Fallaha, N. (2010, May). Work and interview. Novum, World of Graphic Design, 44-45.

Works (designs) published in:
- - chapter titled International Young Design Entrepreneur in Territory bookazine (10 commandments issue), edited by Melissa Lin, published by Bigbros Workshop, 2009.
  - chapter titled Urban Cool in Well-Seasoned: Best of Restaurant Graphics, edited by Estel Vilaseca, published by maomao publications, 2008.
  - chapter 45 in Anatomy of Design, authored by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic, published by Rockport, 2007.

Major achievements:

Co-organizing the typo.graphic.beirut, a design and typography conference at the Lebanese American University (Beirut - Lebanon), April 2005.

Exhibitions, lectures & performances:

Participating in the following exhibitions:
- - Croissant Zaatar, part of Kuala Lumpur Design Week National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur (27 March - 4 April, 2009)
  - Khatt: typographic matchbook, Art Lounge, Beirut Lebanon (December 2007)
  - Switch on Lebanese Design (Salon International du Meuble et du Design of Paris, January 2005).
  - Flower of the East, Dutch Poster Museum (April 2005)
  - typo.graphic.beirut 05 (Lebanese American University, April 2005)
  - Dialogue des Cultures, a collective show about the multiplicity of languages in Lebanon and their interrelation to national and confessional identity (Espace SD – Beirut, Lebanon, October 2001).

Giving the following lectures:
- - Lebanese Graphic design, seen through an educator’s point of view at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), April 2009.
  - FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World, at the Design Education Forum of South Africa (DEFSA) conference (Cape Town - South Africa), September 2007.
  - Presenting vit-e design studio work at GD10 at the American University of Beirut (Beirut - Lebanon), June 2006.

Presenting the following papers:
- - Lebanese Graphic Design, at the Plus International Design Festival in Birmingham (UK), November 2008.
  - Design education in a multilingual country, in Cape Town (South Africa), October 2007.
  - Croissant Zaatar: On Lebanese graphic design, a homogeneous hybrid, at the Imagine iT: The Celebration of the Cultural Differences, in Academia di Belle Arti - Bologna (Italy), March 2007.
  - Local flavour: Teaching graphic design in Lebanon, at the Design talks conference at the American University of Sharjah (Sharjah - UAE), April 2004 & at Tasmeem Doha- Virginia Commonwealth University (Doha - Qatar), February 2004.