Ahmad Aiyad is a designer and creative director from Cairo. He is the founder of Tycho, a design practice that creatively merges conceptual strategies and with modes of visual communication that directly engage with art, society, and culture.

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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.

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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.