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Artwork by Elhamy Naguib

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About Elhamy Naguib

Elhamy Naguib Elhamy Naguib
18 Road 219
Digla, Ma’adi
Cairo, Egypt, 11431
Tel: (012)88332563
graffiticairo@yahoo.com
www.elhamynaguib.com
FB: graffiti artistoys

Professional Experience
2003 – present Owner and Designer, Graffitti Aristoys and Graffiti Cairo– a graphic arts studio located in Ma’adi, Cairo, Egypt with a workshop for the production of educational toys and materials.
Arts and crafts workshops with Graffitti Aristoys, Koz Kazah Foundation, Caritas, the Alexandria library, the Suzanne Mubarak Foundation, Designopolis, Alwa wi Awrtar, Sawiris Foundation, The Health and Hope Oasis, and others.

1997 – 2003 Communications & Public Awareness Manager at the Cairo Air Improvement Project (CAIP). Entered as communications specialist – promoted to senior designer then manager.

1989 – 1997 Owner and artistic director, Graffitti Cairo.
Consultancy in packaging with Gerber Egypt.
Consultancy in Public awareness with Chemonics, Egypt on the GreenCom project for the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.

1987 – 1989 Art director, Eastern Language System, Provo Utah. Responsible for advertising, creating new Arabic typefaces, and translating the computer manual for Al Katib Al Dawli word processing program.
1987 Freelance work for The LDS Church. Guest lectures on Egyptian Art. Employed at WYCAT Computers designing computer graphics using and Beta testing Boticelli Graphics program.

1981 – 1987 Owner and artistic director of Graffitti Cairo.

1980 1981 Art director, Publigraphics, Cairo. (Middle East representatives of McCan – Erickson.)



1979 – 1980 Art Director, AMA (Advertising & Marketing Associated—S.O.P./ Grant- K&E Group) New AMA Leo Burnett.

1979 – 1980 While pursuing graduate studies:
- Lecturer, cultural consultant, and graphic designer at the American University in Cairo
- Arabic language teacher (AUC)
- Egyptian Culture teacher (Cairo American College)
- Lecturer and tour guide for various groups and organizations
- Recorded Arabic language tapes for the American University in Cairo.
- Published two series and prints and ten different greeting cards

1968 – 1974 While serving in the Egyptian Army
- Designed puppets, stage costumes, interiors, and murals
- Illustrated articles in Radio and TV Magazine
- Illustrated and published articles in Sabah El Kheir (Good Morning) Magazine, one of Egypt’s most respected youth magazines.
- Official military duties included Model Making and Cartography.

1967 – 1968 Researcher, Egyptian Folk art Center, Cairo.
Exhibitions
2010 The world, a Happy Village
2007 Season of Light, Graffiti Gallery
2006 One- man show at Studio 206 in Cairo
2005 One- man show at gallery World of Art in Cairo
2004 One- man show at gallery World of Art in Cairo
2002 Exhibit with 3 artists at the American University in Cairo
2000 Group Show at the Cairo Opera House
1999 Group Show at Salama Gallery, Cairo
1995 One – man show of CSA
1989 – 2005 Yearly exhibit at Cairo American College
1985 – Present Permanent Exhibit in own gallery
1979 One – man Show, Goethe Cultural Center, Cairo
1976 One – man Show, Goethe Cultural Center, Cairo
1968 One – man Show, Czechoslovak Cultural Center, Cairo
1968 – present Several public shows and charity events in Egypt and two in the U.S.

Education
1997 – present Courses in presentation Skills , Writing Reports, Qualitative surveys, Arabic Calligraphy, Silversmithing, Batik, and pottery.
1988 A.A.S, degree in Graphics / Commercial Art. Utah Valley Community College, Provo, Utah. Graduated with honors.
1978 Coursework for a Master of Arts degree in Islamic Art History with Scholarship. American University in Cairo.
1967 Bachelor of Arts, Interior Design, with honors. Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.
Personal Data
I am a 67 year-old, Egyptian citizen. I was married to an American spouse for 15 years. I have 3 children:
Camelia, Inspector office of the LAPD
Center - Wanis, owner of USMA, Calfornia
Silvana, an attorney at law with the Public Defence Office in Washington DC.

Our family enjoys archeology, sports, reading, music, and travelling and I have a special fondness for volleyball, hiking and scrabble. I am an optimist, a bit of an idealist, and surely a romantic. My art often reflects these themes, and in my business transactions I prefer to handle jobs with a strong social and ecological impact.

Since working with CAIP in 1997:
I developed new skills in communication and public awareness including
- Management skills in USAID projects
- Helped in writing a communcation strategy
- Developing work plans.
- Initiating designing and supervising programs, documentaries, TV spots, & puppet shows.
- Writing and designing a 3D animation spot.
- Making delivering presentations
- Conceptualizing exciting exhibits with limited budgets
- Managing events
- Training the trainers in:
- Preparing visuals for community projects
- Presentation skills
- Developing activities to enhance environmental public awareness

Portfolio
I have worked with various mediums including: pen and ink, watercolors, acrylics, air brush, computer graphics, and paper casting, in producing the following published works


Calendars & Prints
- Scenes of Cairo (12 designs)
- Disappearing Face of Cairo (6 designs)
- Folk Costumes of Egypt (12 designs)
- Faces and Places (12 designs)
- The Seasons (4 designs)
- Egyptian Vistas (6 designs)
- Oriental Fantasy
- Horses (6 designs)
- Pharaonic Impressions (6 designs)
- Folk Art of Egypt (12 designs)
- Zodiac (12 designs)
- Stories of the Egyptian Minstrel (6 designs)
- Folk Art Motifs (6 designs)
- Portraits of Egypt (12 paintings)
- Simple People (12 paintings)
- Simple Joys (12 paintings)
- Ages of man (4 paintings)
- Paradise before Sin
- Murals for the Love of Egypt (4 murals).
- Egyptian Children Folk Games (8 designs).
- Noah's Ark (8 piece mural).


- I helped introduce the Art Calendar in 1977, modern color separation in 1982 in Egypt, ecodesign and printing in 1985, laser piercing in greeting cards.


Computer Skills
Photoshop/ Freehand/ Fontographer

Puzzles
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Arabic Numerals
- Ancient Egyptian Hunter
- 2D puzzles in wood
- 3D puzzles in wood
- Arabic Alphabet wood puzzle

Greeting Cards
Designed and published over 100 different cards.

Corporate Art
Print campaigns, handling conferences, presentations, Preparing art exhibitions, logos, brochures and pamphlets, business cards and stationery (corporate identity), posters, training manuals, annual reports, maps, folders, stickers, invitations, awards and certificates, flyers, programs, murals, reports, fold- outs, newsletters, magazines, books, booklets, signage systems, give- away items, commissioned work for private collections.

Memberships
Member of the Fine Arts syndicate.
Member of the Egyptian Folklore Society.
Member of Earth Architecture Association in Cairo
Founding Member in Koz Kazah foundation for Human development

Clients Included

Chase national Bank, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Swissair Restaurant, Hyatt Salam Hotel, Wings Tours, Drexel, Quick Cargo, Maadi Community Players, Cairo Choral Society, Academy of Arts, EMCIP, EWUP, CHF, and NARP. (U.S.A.I.D. programs), AUC, CAC, CSA, MWG, Emeraude, Karim movie productions, Framchem, LDS Church, Eastern Language System, Gerber Food Products, KIDMIX magazine, the Social Fund, Osman group, Ideal Standard, Association for the protection of the environment, and various artists and galleries. World Bank, National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, Cairo American College, The American University in Cairo, Naloo.

Wood Work
-Produced 3 new lines of furniture: Modern baladi, Norag, and desert style.
-Produced a line of designed sculptures, nativity sets, educational materials and movable toys.

Mosaic & Metal work
Designed and executed mosaic and metalwork for Art and Function
(see website).

Garden Furniture
Co-Designed a line of products ( Handz) in stone, metal and fiber.

TV
Hosted a weekly TV program teaching art, and creative thinking to children aged 9 – 12 for 5 years.
Contributed in numerous TV programs over the course of my career


Environmental Art
- Held numerous workshops for arts and crafts for raising inter-cultural and environment awareness .
- Designed and supervised children and/ or adults in making murals at the following institutions:
- Suzanne Mubarak museum.
- Mubarak public.
- Cairo American College.
- Zahira Abdin Orphanage.
- Children ward at the Cancer institute.
- Community services Associations.
- The City of Alpine- Utah celebration.
- Nabq ecolodge festival.
- Health and Hope Nutrition Center for Children with Cancer, ongoing.
- Antamee ( I belong) A two- year project to place 10 murals in Cairo with the Koz Kazah foundation, (ongoing).
- Design of exterior and outdoor arts in sculpture, landscape and metalwork.

Publications
- Stories of Goha (an Egyptian trickster) in English.
- Nine activity books on Egyptian culture for grades one to eight.
- An activity book on Egyptian Culture for preschool kids with visual aids.
- Two activity books on water conservation and air pollution.
- An illustrated report on The Village architecture of Naqada with Earth Architecture Association NGO; jointly with 5 architects.
- Research on Medieval Illumination
- Book in abox, Love songs from ancient Egypt, a limited edition handmade book.
- Old doors of Cairo, Open Doors Project 2008
- Mr. cat Finds Home, by Mandy Brauer, Al Shorouk Publishing House.

In Preparation
Development of products aimed at reviving dying Folk Arts.
- The sugar doll multi-media workshop and publication.
- Kunooz Massriyya ( Egyptian Treasures}, A series of activity books and posters on Egyptian cities: Nubia, Alexandria. Cairo, Fayyum etc.
- Contemporary Egyptian Artists, a pocket book series.