Ahmad Aiyad is a designer and creative director from Cairo. He is the founder of (a-2), a design practice that merges multiple modes of visual communication and directly engages with art, society, and culture.

 

Aiyad is concerned with finding open relationships between contemporary art and design. His collaborators range from museums, universities, art institutions, and architecture firms, to publishers, researchers, and artists. He is a founding member of Moshtarak, a Cairo-based design collective and he conducts an on-going series of collaborative workshops investigating the accessibility of visual archives in various cities.

 

Aiyad is involved in initiatives concerned with social change and a member of the Global Design Forum and the World Economic Forum. Aiyad studied at OCAD University, Toronto and Sandberg Instituut - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.