Sirine Darwiche

Originally from Lebanon, Sirine moved to London seeking to expand her understanding of visual communication through strategic creativity, innovation, and active exploration of current trends. She specialises in editorial design, identity branding, typography, illustration, and prototype design.

After receiving her Foundation diploma in 3D Art at Central Saint Martins, she has now completed her final year of her BA in Graphic Design at Ravensbourne University. She currently freelances while working as a marketing team member for NGO Impact Lebanon. She is actively searching for a long-term job here in London.

She strongly believes in the power of visual communication in making a statement, sparking conversation, and igniting change. Her work is usually vibrant and full of energy as she constantly experiments with bold and playful approaches to communicate her concepts more effectively.

GROUND ZERO – an editorial that illustrates the concept of culture shock through playfulness and sarcasm. It takes the reader on a journey through the different phases of culture shock in London, with a sole purpose of shedding light and positivity to a rather difficult transitional process.

EAST TO WEST, WEST TO EAST – a bilingual Arabic-Latin editorial piece used as a supporting artefact to Sirine's BA dissertation. It was designed to highlight unique features of contemporary Arabic graphic design in the 21st Century. Including background information, visual references, and personally conducted interviews, the goal was to explore the effectiveness of cross-cultural communication and overcome the challenges of bridging two distinct visual languages harmoniously.

UNFILTERED (with Callum Majekodunmi-O’Hara, Cicely Scates and Lucia Bon) – an innovative digital campaign designed to reposition the traditional concept of menopause and highlight how its absence from mainstream media is detrimental to a diversity of people.

PALMYRA – a custom typeface created with the fusion of Latin typeface "Galaxie Copernicus" and Arabic typeface "Lyon Arabic". The type specimen confronts a cultural issue by utilising humour and satire to address Arab stereotypes in the West. The work displayed depicts Westernised, Orientalist distortions of Arabic products and the commercialisation of ethnic property.

TIME TO HEAL – a motion project that tackles time in the aftermath of the horrific August 4 2020 Beirut blast, through the graphic interpretation of two time-based PTSD healing methods.