Nathalie Fallaha
Personal information
Nathalie Fallaha
Founder and Design Principal, Vit-e Branding & Digital
Contact information (Private)
+9613763805
Contact information (Work)
+9611738621
Community/Lebanon Impact
Every morning, Nathalie makes sure that whatever it is she will be undertaking, it will have a positive impact on everyone around her. As a mother, a designer, a friend, a citizen. Conscious and positive citizenship.
Education
Education:
- Master's degree, Communication Design, 1999, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, United Kingdom.
- Bachelor degree, Graphic Design, 1997, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
- French Baccalaureate (Math), 1993, College Notre Dame de Jamhour, Lebanon.
Work history
Previous Professions:
- Owner & Design Principal, 2000 - present, Vit-e Branding & Digital.
- Faculty member, 2000 - 2009, Graphic design department, Lebanese American University.
- Graphic Designer, from 1997 to 1998, DMB & B.
Major Achievements
Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.):
- Fallaha, N. Work and Essay. revolution/evolution Two Decades and Four Hundred Designers Later.
- Fallaha, N. (2010, May). Work and interview. Novum, World of Graphic Design, 44-45.
- Works (designs) published in:
- Chapter titled International Young Design Entrepreneur in Territory bookazine (10 commandments issue), edited by Melissa Lin, published by Bigbros Workshop, 2009.
- Chapter titled Urban Cool in Well-Seasoned: Best of Restaurant Graphics, edited by Estel Vilaseca, published by maomao publications, 2008.
- Chapter 45 in Anatomy of Design, authored by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic, published by Rockport, 2007.
Major achievements:
- Co-organizing the typo.graphic.beirut, a design and typography conference at the Lebanese American University (Beirut - Lebanon), April 2005.
Exhibitions, lectures & performances:
Participating in the following exhibitions:
- Croissant Zaatar, part of Kuala Lumpur Design Week National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur (27 March - 4 April, 2009).
- Khatt: typographic matchbook, Art Lounge, Beirut Lebanon (December 2007).
- Switch on Lebanese Design (Salon International du Meuble et du Design of Paris, January 2005).
- Flower of the East, Dutch Poster Museum (April 2005).
- typo.graphic.beirut 05 (Lebanese American University, April 2005).
- Dialogue des Cultures, a collective show about the multiplicity of languages in Lebanon and their interrelation to national and confessional identity (Espace SD – Beirut, Lebanon, October 2001).
Giving the following lectures:
- Lebanese Graphic design, seen through an educator’s point of view at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), April 2009.
- FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World, at the Design Education Forum of South Africa (DEFSA) conference (Cape Town - South Africa), September 2007.
- Presenting vit-e design studio work at GD10 at the American University of Beirut (Beirut - Lebanon), June 2006.
Presenting the following papers:
- Lebanese Graphic Design, at the Plus International Design Festival in Birmingham (UK), November 2008.
- Design education in a multilingual country, in Cape Town (South Africa), October 2007.
- Croissant Zaatar: On Lebanese graphic design, a homogeneous hybrid, at the Imagine iT: The Celebration of the Cultural Differences, in Academia di Belle Arti - Bologna (Italy), March 2007.
- Local flavour: Teaching graphic design in Lebanon, at the Design talks conference at the American University of Sharjah (Sharjah - UAE), April 2004 & at Tasmeem Doha- Virginia Commonwealth University (Doha - Qatar), February 2004.
Accomplishments
Awards:
- Awarded by the British Council as the Lebanese Design Entrepreneur for 2008.
Competences & Skills
Field(s) of Expertise:
- Bilingual Typography
- Graphic design
- Multilinguism
- User Experience / User interface
Languages:
- English
- French
- Arabic