Ahmad Aiyad is a designer and creative director from Cairo. He is the founder of (a-2), a design practice that moves fluidly across visual communication, working closely with art, society, and culture to produce context-driven identities, publications, exhibitions, and collaborative forms of research.

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Aiyad’s work is rooted in building open relationships between contemporary art and design. His collaborations extend across museums, art institutions, universities, architecture studios, publishers, researchers, and artists. He is a founding member of Moshtarak, a Cairo-based design collective, and leads an ongoing series of workshops that explore the accessibility and public life of visual archives across different cities.

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Aiyad is part of the Global Design Forum and the World Economic Forum community. He studied at OCAD University in Toronto and the Sandberg Instituut – Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.