RESUME


WORK EXPERIENCE

2024-25
Independent Consultant and Designer, Morocco

UX/UI Design Concept, wireframes, prototypes, UI, and micro-animations for apps and websites.

Branding Developed visual identities for small businesses, compaigns for big corporate brands and signed the logo of a selfie museum from initial concepts to final deliverables. 


2022-24
Senior Designer at Sharaf Studio, Kuwait – Remote

Branding Created visual identities for exhibitions, corporate brands and children games. Took hold of projects from brainstorming to designing, client presentations to final assets delivery.

Motion Created logo animations, as well as social media motion graphics, and presentation gifs to simplify the understanding of concepts for clients.


2020–22
Senior Designer at Flirt Creativity, The Netherlands

UX/UI Design Concept, wireframes, prototypes, UI, and micro-animations for apps and websites.
Branding Assisted with Head of Branding, made animations for social media, and worked on typography and copywriting.


2019–20
Designer at MediaMonks, The Netherlands

NDA project

- Working at the asset at scales department for one of the world’s most recognizable brands ; omni-channel visual design.
- Client liaison with the different stakeholders across timezones, fulfilling all three business requirements: quick turnaround, high quality (complying with the most stringent design specs in the industry), and high volume (40–70 images per week)


2019
Art Director at Jazzablanca 2019, Morocco’s largest Jazz festival

- Visual identity, advertisements (for print, television, web and outdoor), signages, event animations, sponsor-liaison and management, production
- Leading a team of 5.


2016–19 
Co-Founder & Art Director at CZ², Morocco

- Editorial, visual design, UX, and curation for exhibitions.
- Working on cultural projects in North Africa.


2015–16
Graphic designer at Jazzablanca 2016, Morocco

2014
Freelance visual designer for several clients, Morocco

2013-17
Co-founder and art director at ONORIENT MENA webzine, Morocco

2012–14, Morocco
Art Direction Internships with Diptyk Magazine, Zone Bleue DDB and KLEM EURO RSCG
Graphic Design internship at Shem’s


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2025

UX–UI Workshop | 2 weeks with the 3rd years Graphic Design
École Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Morocco


EDUCATION

2015–17

Master of Arts | Visual Communication
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom


2010–14

Bachelor of Arts | Visual Communication 
École Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Morocco




EXHIBITIONS
AND AWARDS


TDC Awards | Type Design – Variable Font | 2024
Sharaf Studio, MetaWhat?

Amman Design Week | 2017
Gallery Ras El Ain, Amman, Jordan

Typographic Singularity | 2017
Hockney Gallery, London, UK

Rogue Seeds | 2017
Green Week, London, UK

The Common Room | 2016
Hockney Gallery, London, UK


LANGUAGES

Fluent in
English, French, Moroccan Arabic (and Classical Arabic) and Tamazight (Tachelhite)

Beginner 
Dutch, Italian and Japanese


SKILLS

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (XD, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects), Sketch, Glyphs, Notion.


INTERESTS

Actively participate in conferences and events on socio-psychology and political science.

Amateur voice actor (see example)

Enjoy arthouse cinema and film photography (member of Filmoteca)




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EMAIL
zarkaoui.chourouk@gmail.com