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about
Mia Azar is an award-winning design and communications expert with a passion for creative direction. She has a distinguished track record of helping teams grow by creating systems and processes that drive impactful results.
Until leaving Lebanon for the United Kingdom in 2023, she was the Marketing and Communications Director at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB), as well as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design, where she taught various practical and visual design courses.
Prior to these roles at AUB, Mia was Creative Director at PenguinCube, an award-winning design consultancy, in which capacity she led teams from offices in Beirut and Dubai on multidisciplinary design projects implemented in over 40 cities. Two of Mia's projects at PenguinCube received the Society of Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) Honor Award (Book Shelf, 2012, New York; and Alserkal Arrows, 2016, Seattle).
Drawing on her knowledge in graphic, publication, and information design, Mia has worked on interdisciplinary projects, alongside scientific and design research, combining the various media of product, space, and technology with an aim to extend how design can influence educational, social, and cultural environments.
Mia completed her MA with distinction in Spatial & Product Design at Kingston University London in 2009 after obtaining her BFA with distinction in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut in 2008. She received, respectively, the Best of Show award and the second prize Areen Award of Excellence in Graphic Design for her final year projects.
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