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Bonoah

Creative Director & Graphic Designer

With over a decade of expertise in the design industry, I offer a wide range of services, including graphic design, branding, web construction, SaaS, & art direction. With a BS in Graphic Design and an MBA emphasis in Design Management, I bring a unique blend of creative and strategic thinking to every project. I'm committed to delivering exceptional design solutions that meet your business goals and elevate your brand's image.

Contact me today to help bring your vision to life.

Creativity, Leadership,
Communication, Management.

Profile

Summary

• Bonoah is my professional businessname, I’m a 32-year-old creative director& graphic designer with over a decade ofexpertise in the design industry.

• My journey began at a young age whenI discovered my love for art, then Ipursued this passion by obtaining aGraphic design diploma and an MBAemphasis in Design Management, todeepen my understanding of thebusiness side of design, & bring a uniqueblend of creative and strategic thinkingto every project.

• I offer a wide range of services, includinggraphic design, branding, webconstruction, SaaS, & art direction. AndI'm committed to delivering exceptionaldesign solutions that meet your businessgoals and elevate your brand's image.

• My website portfolio showcases a widerange of international projects for variousindustries, and I possess strong leadershipand communication skills, having ledteams of professionals.

• I’m always looking for new challenges &I’m excited to continue pushing theboundaries and make a significantimpact in the design industry.


Inspiration story behind my identity    

 As a Libran born on October 12th, equilibrium is my jam. Achieving balance is essential for my well-being and positive outlook on life. I delight in the simplicity of minimalism and find solace in the soothing sounds of nature. This is why I've embraced a minimalist lifestyle, characterized by a sleek black and white aesthetic that embodies the essence of contrast and balance. To add a pop of color, I incorporate a hint of turquoise, which symbolizes vitality and energy. I delved deep into my imagination, seeking inspiration for my minimalist philosophy, and found it under the radiant glow of a full moon. It was there that I realized the beauty of balance lies in the dance between the sun and the moon, which creates the ebb and flow of life. This cosmic rhythm of light and dark, yin and yang, is what embodies the minimalist way of life. It's simple yet profound.

Experience

Career

• My work involves creating a completive identity, designing user interfaces andexperiences, as well as developing advertising strategies that capture the essenceof each client's brand, while meeting their specific needs, goals, businessobjectives.

• I work with scrum agile methodology, which involves working closely withcross-functional teams, including developers, project managers, and stakeholders,to deliver high quality design solutions on time and within budget, and to ensurethat projects are completed efficiently and effectively.

• I prioritize developing a deep understanding of each client's target audience toeffectively communicate their message and drive engagement.

• I stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies, and Imentor and train junior designers or interns.

• Since 2016, I've been taking on rebranding and graphic design projects forinternational companies under my business name Bonoah.


Top Skills

Graphic Design · Adobe Creative Suite ·Photoshop · Illustrator · UI/UX · Branding· Marketing · Art Direction · Brand Development· Creative Strategies · Multitasking· SaaS · Seo · Project Management ·Leadership · Time Management · Communication.

Personality Traits:

Collaborative · Analytical · Versatile· Detail-oriented · Empowering

Education

MBA with concentration in design management.
American university of science and technology | Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 
Grade: 3.6/4 GPA
   
Major courses: Advanced art direction · Contemporary management · Marketing management · Creative & technicalstrategies · Design management and innovation · Digital Marketing · PMP (project management) · Consumer Behavior
• Developed a comprehensive understanding of business operations, including management courses like advanced art direction, design management, contemporary management, project management, and marketing management.
• Gained expertise in strategic planning, decision-making, and leadership through courses like creative and technical strategies, digital marketing, and consumer behavior.
• Conducted a thesis research about the role of visual communication in modern marketing, to provide the industry with best practices and develop innovative solutions to complex business challenges.


B.S in graphic design and advertising.  
Arts science and technology university of Lebanon | 2009 - 2013  
 
• Gained expertise in design principles (typography, color theory, and web design through coursework and hands-on projects), photography, and printing.
• Developed proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite and other tools to create digital designs.


Lebanese baccalaureate in life sciences.
Verdun high school | 2008

Parallel Universe

In a parallel universe, I took on acting roles on theatre stages, cinema, and behind the microphone as a voice over artist. Acting was both fun and challenging, providing me with valuable insights into public speaking, emotional intelligence, consumer behavior, and communication strategies. Additionally, I was able to gain a deeper understanding of my inner-self and improve my emotional expression and regulation, making it a valuable addition to my career.

01/07
Branding, Animation, UX/UI

Arezki Group

Construction company, Senegal.

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02/07
Branding, Animation, UX/UI

Strategic Anchors

Construction and technology consultancy company, UAE.

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03/07
Graphic Design, Photography, Advertising

Lody's

American food style restaurant based in Beirut.

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04/07
Graphic Design

Cloud For Work

Modern digital solutions, UAE.

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05/07
Branding, Graphic Design

Manalco

Power Protection Sal (Liban Energie)

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06/07
UX, UI, Front-end coding, Animation

Web Development

Web design and development since 2015

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07/07
Logo Design, Posters, Books, Menus

Graphic Design

Doing graphic design services since 2011

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Client
Arezki Group
Project timeline
11 months
Date of submission
09 - 2022
Services
Rebranding - UX/UI

Mission

Creating a new brand identity to better reflect Arezki's values and goals, and redesigning the website alongside all other marketing materials.
The project required working with a team of professionals: CEO's, General managers, and Project managers

Old Version Logo
Freshly Rebranded

Strategy, Objective, & Values

Arezki is a well-established brand with over 60years of experience in the business. With the current company’s logo, a trust has been built with the clients along the years. But, with the rising technology, an upgrade must be considered to keep up with the modern criteria and standards specially when it comes to the digital world.

The following re-branding focuses on the company’s main target that is about maintaining trust and to keep providing the market with the highest service quality and best experience. Stay true to original, but contemporize.

The core idea is enhanced by the creation of the brand icon A, the new brand colors, and the three elements of Arezki’s successful story that are innovation, growth, and excellence.

Logo & Identity

This rebranded logo design of Arezki refers to a combination two logo types, the lettermark and the wordmark. The lettermark type, it is a typographic symbol representing the company through the use of its initials or the brands first letter. So, the single letter A, can be used as a mnemonic device for the company name. In addition, the illustration of the letter A is embed in the company name to create the wordmark logo and still be read Arezki.

Advantage:
The use of this logo type combination, simplifies the logo and allows it to fit better in a variety of space sizes, easily scalable, increase recognition, and makes it ideal for app icons and many digital and prints uses.

Color Palette

Petrol Blue Gold Grey

Brand Mark

Architectural illusion Illustration
- Minimalist abstract illustration of a building standing tall with its sharp edged shadow.
- The flat head of the building refers to the roof, while the sharp edge of the shadow refers to a meeting point of an endless road.
- The shape is symmetrical that has identical double sides, it can be flipped horizontally as a mirror.
- The Registered trademark ®is placed on the top left side of the logo to ensure on keeping balance.

Concept & meaning
- Inspired from the pyramids & illustrated as an arrow. The letter A represents royalty, history, strength, power, &evolution.- As represented in the logo tagline, the company has three key values that are; innovation, growth, and excellence. And these values are successfully embedded in the logomark as three arrows in one.- The blue shape represents the innovation. The gold one represents growth. The colorless represents the excellence.

3D Logomark

Corporate Materials

UX / UI

A modern user-friendly multi lingual website. Designed and developed by me Bonoah.
www.arezkigroup.com

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Client
Strategic Anchors
Project timeline
2 months
Date of submission
01 - 2020
Services
Rebranding - UX/UI

Mission

Create a solid identity for strategic anchors and rebuild all visuals

Old Version Logo
strategic anchors old logo
Freshly Rebranded
strategic anchors new logo

Idea & Concept

Strategic Anchors company is all about construction, technology, and facilitating the work for their clients with the modern tools. For the logo I wanted to create something futuristic, so I illustrated an anchor inspired from a minimalist 3D-shaped skyscraper, connected with a strategy at a focus point to form a star. The star concept, represents high values and guarantee a lifetime success to the brand.

The white space is playing the  main role in this branding, since it sums up the brand colors, just like what a color wheel would do, and pile up the anchors composing a star icon. When we connect the stars in the upper space, we can get an abstract architectural buildings, strategy.

Color Palette

Strategic Anchors had originally been a colorful brand, so for that matter I preferred to highlight the company’s values with these four colors.

Business Strategy
Project Management
Digital Transformation
Process Re-engineering

Stationary

Business card
Trifold company profile

UX / UI

For Strategic Anchors website I recently have finished with the user experience and started with my signature user interface that will have the same style as my website.

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Client
Lody's
Project timeline
2017 - 2020
Services
Graphic Design, Photography, Advertising

Mission

Creating strong visuals and enhance sales through strategical campaigns using push marketing tools between the years 2017 and 2020.

October Campaign 2019

Starting off the season with attractive offers, using the autumn main elements like colors oil colors and leaves. I was responsible for strategizing the campaign aspects and doing the photography and graphic design work as well. We promoted for these offers on social media, billboards, and printed leaflets. The campaign was successful enough to get significant sales increase.

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Client
Cloud For Work
Project timeline
2020-present
Services
Graphic Design

Mission

To help Cloud For Work company translate it's evolutionary ideas into graphic work that keeps the company ahead from competitors, like designing more than 40 Microsoft courses, educational presentations, certificates, and html responsive email templates.

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Client
Manalco Sal
Project timeline
6 months
Date of submission
Dec - 2016
Services
Rebranding - Graphic design

Mission

Provider for critical power needs. With the adequate resources to support any operating facility (firm, bank, hospital, factory… etc). The mission was to create a solid identity for Manalco company and rebuild all visuals.

Old Version Logo
manalco old logo
Freshly Rebranded
Manalco new logo

Idea & Concept

Entering the digital world and online advertising was the main motivation for Manalco for hiring me to recreate the brand identity and all the necessary visuals. The idea was to create an icon for the brand that presents the company's profile and also highlight the letter M, and the full shape was inspired by the cubic form of the ups.

Defined Icons

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Stationary

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Overview

Where I started

I've handled my first web project back in 2015, back in that time we were still getting used to the booming of smart phones and websites weren't responsive enough to handle the boom. The project was governmental and had to be informative, so I had some limitations with being artistic and had to go with the old stiff design trends.
The project is currently off and undergoing a redesign, click here to view the project

Where I'm now

With the beginning and the rise of covid-19, I've wanted to gain some major new skills while having so much free time at home during lockdown. I was curious to see if it's possible for a designer to learn how to code and build a fully responsive website professionally on their own. Then I've started with Webflow courses and things escalated quickly to a level where I got able to create my own user interface signature and implemented it in my own portfolio website.
I've got a wide knowledge in css styling and transforming my simple motion graphics into json files and embed as smooth interactions in the user interface.

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Logo Design

Gilbert Cherfane

Director, Producer, and Video editor

Time is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a film project. Since its the link between the image and how how it’s developing through out the editing process, a timeline. The challenge part in this project is to create a minimal icon that can show time and related to the name at the same time. Thus, I’ve combined the letters G & C with a cool clock and it’s hands in motion.

KOI

Lounge sushi bar & grill

When hearing about sushi, the first thing that I picture in my head is the complex Japanese language and how it's written upside down, beautiful isn't it?. For this project I wanted to show some true Japanese identity for this bar, which is creating a type face from sticks, highlighting the Japanese famous red circle in the flag along with the negative space, and finally presenting it upside down like a letter!

Poster Design

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Testimonials

Recommendation letters by my clients and other professionals

Ibrahim is an incredible and professional Creative Director. He listens, understands your business, puts forward amazing creative solutions, executes impeccably, goes the extra mile when needed and more importantly a pleasure to work with!

Ezzat Sayegh

Ezzat Sayegh

CEO / Cloud For Work

Ibrahim was one of my outstanding students. He is a hard worker, a great thinker, has excellent presentation skills, and is a fast learner. I am sure that he will have a bright future. All the best

Roland Abi Najem

CEO / Revotips - Cybersecurity & Digital Transformation
Public Speaker - International Consultant with UNDP

Ibrahim is a brilliant creative professional. He is not of those who give you off-the-shelf solutions. He dives deep into your business and out of a sudden comes out with beautiful ideas. I highly recommend working with him, but do not push him for immediate results. Leave him reflect and you will be surprised with what he brings you.

Fadi Bayoud

CEO / Strategic Anchors

Ibrahim never seizes to astonish us with his creativity and devotion. Just hand him an idea or a concept and he will profoundly give you back a piece of art, with a comprehensive set of thoughts behind every single detail in it, He is simply talented.

Joseph Akl

Project Manager, CBS