NOUR ISSA

Tel Dubai 00971 (5) 58653872

Tel Beirut 00961 (0) 3 961 721

Email Narnour82@hotmail.com
Email nour@fun-productions.com
Email nour@securityzoneuae.com

Date of birth: 23/9/1982 Nationality: Lebanese Marital Status: Single

Young, ambitious, dynamic, executive. Able to cope with different

situations. Results oriented. Credible and trustworthy. Diversified culture. Stylish
and elegant designer. Masters all soft wares related to my activities. Hard worker.
Pleasant and flexible personality.

Work Experience

1-Manager:
Company: Fun Productions Dubai
Date: january2008 to present
Tasks: - Preparing Business plans and feasibility studies
- Creating themes for the seasons and designs for events
- Designing visuals and presentations for clients
- Preparing presentations for sponsors and big names such as
DSf… and selling products for sponsorships
- Being in charge of the full public relation tasks
- Organizing time plan and giving tasks to all the departments
- Designing below the line advertising
- Controlling the marketing department

Company: Ayoun el Maha Dubai (same owner)

Date: january2008 to present
Tasks: - Creating themes for interiors furnishing locations
- Dealing with clients and subcontractors.
Organizing company profiles time plan and giving tasks to all
the departments

Company: Latinatan hair saloon Dubai (same owner)

Date: january2008 to present
Tasks: - Creating the whole saloon from interior to branding name …
- Dealing with clients and employees
- Organizing company profiles time plan and giving tasks
- Preparing the whole marketing campaign flyers add promotions

Company: Security Zone UAE(same owner)

Date: january2008 to present
Tasks: - Creating the whole branding of the company
- Dealing with clients and sub companies overseas.
- Organizing company profiles time plan
- Selling Security Solutions to big contactors and government
departments and security technologies machines such as special
phones fire alarms.
- Bringing deals and attending forums conference…

2-Creative Director:
Company: Update garment
Date: August 2007 to December 2007
Tasks: - Creating themes for the seasons collection directions of the marketing
Campaign.
- Designing visuals for windows of the following shops with all their
branches.
- Designing look books for the shops according to each them brand’s theme
including set design and choosing photographers lightings….
- Designing all the corporate identities of the different brands & shops
franchise booklets monthly magazines and news letters for update
garment
- Designing tags finalizing collection picking the samples from china
choosing colors materials in china
- And finally designing the packages from bags gift box make up pox
underwear packages perfumes… Betts,,,
Reasons to leave: Decided after the situation in Lebanon that it was time to grow and
mature more in my field in order to explore my talent more So I moved to Dubai.

3-Art Director - Brand Manager.

Company: Maria Pino
Date: May 2006 – June 2007:
Tasks: -Creating themes for collection of shoes and bags
-Designing look books.
-Choosing colors and styles of the collection
-Look out for 6 shops and managing them across Lebanon
-Deliver the best customer services make sure the special made goods are
finished on time control the rotations between shop and factory.
-Make sure the visual merchandiser is delivering the right idea and theme
-Handling all the shop employees problems make sure the are working right.
-Deliver daily weekly and monthly reports with graphs statistics of sales and
manufacturing good.
Reasons to Leave Had to Travel to Sydney Australia for personal reasons.

Internship and Part Time:

1-Graphic Design:
Company: George Chakra
Date: November2005 – May 2007:
Tasks: -Designing visuals for collection for textile printing for fashion show background.
-Designing look books.
-Choosing colors according to drawings
-Designing packages
-Help organizing a fashion show
Reasons to Leave: It was an internship under the Surveillance of Mr. Chakra and Mrs.
Abdelelmalak, of 6 month to learn more about the fashion industry since I took fashion
design course… and it was my hobby and dream but I needed more experience.

2Graphic Design and Marketing

Company: Alphamedia Editing house
Date: Summer 2005
Tasks: - Creating grids and logos visuals for the books” Architecture and Lebanon”
And “Histoire de l’Architecture”
-Taking photos of architectural scenes across Lebanon and searching in old
country houses for old historical pictures than editing the pictures and placing
them according to grids;
-Selling spaces for adds to market the book.
Reasons to Leave: This was just a summer paid job that that I completed till the last day
of the signature of the two books under the surveillance of Mr. Gebran Yaccoub the
editor of the 2 books
I learned: -How to work under pressure and respect Due Dates
- How to create a network of public relations and how to deal with
different types of people from a bank manager to an old village man.

3-Graphic Design
Company: AI Magazine (AISHTY)
Date: Summer 2004
Tasks: -Creating grids visuals for the magazine.
-Designing sets for photo shoots according to themes
-Work with the team on ideas names and themes
-Play with graphics and pictures and airbrushing photos
Reasons to Leave had to go back to university.
I Learned: - how to brainstorm and work with a teams and divide work:
- How to work over time and in parallel with my colleagues
- More about photography Scenes and lightning
- |How to respect everyone’s opinion in order to satisfy a maximum amount of
taste for example we cannot display anything we want in a magazine it
might offend others.

4-Art Director.
Company: Team young And Rubicam
Date: Summer 2003
Tasks: -Creating concept with a team
-Designing mood boards and feeling according to the concept chosen
-Finalizing the campaign in a presentation that the directors would present to
clients.
-Play with graphics and pictures.
Reasons to Leave: It was a summer Internship at the creative department under the
surveillance by Mr. Assad Douaillheb than I Had to Go back to university.
I Learned: - To respect my superiors ideas and work with them but still stand up for my
idea and work on it until the massage is delivered.
-How to deal with clients and how to present to clients.

5-Event planning and coordinating:

During university years I had to work Part Time and make some money so this is how an
event management company in hosting, public relations and event planning started with
Joelle Helou and friends it was called at “Istekabal”. We started by gathering each other
we bought uniforms and we created a team worked as hostess or the person who
welcomes the guests, we soon grew and grew and started organizing weddings than
events exhibitions and even concerts until we graduated and traveled apart.

Family job:

1- Head Designer :
Working for the family since my young age I still design each season's jewelry collection
as well the advertising campaigns all following the same season's collection themes.
We sell high quality stones all Luxury Item jewelry in particular.
I also follow up the yearly accounting and financial reports three times a year.

Training:

1-Branding:
Company: Gazcorp Sydney Australia
Date: July2007 - Auguet 2009:
Tasks: -Designing a full branding for a huge holding company and the 8 companies
branding that are owned by the same holding which includes a mall an aviation
company…under the Surveillance of Mr. Nabil Ghazal Owner and CEO of Gaz Corp.
The One and half Job included a training for a team of 4 explaining the concepts and
techniques of the design from logos to interior designs leaflets packages signage and
identities….. Everything reflects one same brand.

Languages: Fluent reading and writing English, French and Arabic.

Computer Literacy: Word for Windows, Excel, Microsoft Outlook/Express,

FrontPage and PowerPoint. Illustrator. Photoshop,
Quark Express, Indesign, Adobe premiere, After Effect
 Flash Director, and 3dMax.

Degree: 2001-2005 Bachelor of Science Graphic Design at the Lebanese

American University.
1996-2001 Athennee de Beyrouth (Bac francais 2eme partie)
1985-1996 Antoine Sister school

Graduate courses:

Marketing Management
Applied Statistics Graphic design Seminar
Fundamentals of design (1 and 2) Rendering and Studio Skills
Drawing ( 1 and 2 ) Art of Illustration
History of Graphic Design Modern Art
Photography Visual Perception
Printing Variables Technical Graphics
Introduction to computer Graphics Intermediate computer Graphics
Advanced computer Graphics Typography
Motion Design
Digital Imaging
Graphic Design 1: (Posters and Corporate identity logos)
Graphic Design 2; (packaging)
Graphic Design 3; (poster and printing press)
Graphic Design 4 ;(portfolio and diploma project)
Advanced Typography (In Which I created an Arabic Font)

Interest and hobbies: Fashion Design and jewelry design Interior design
Dancing, swimming, acting. Stock market and currency
exchange, Politics Horse riding.

Freelance: Labeling for a Lebanese drink “Arak Touma”

The whole campaign for an anti smoking clinique
“Don’t be duped” Dr Rima Khalil
Corporate identity for CSD Dr. Awad
Corporate identity for Gaz Corp Mr. Ghazal
Creation of an Arabic font.
Corporate identity for a dance school
Corporate identity for Arts in Construction Company
Web site advisor for Arts in Construction Company
Corporate identity for Roadside hotel Tabarja Lebanon
Corporate Identity for Emerald mall Sydney
Corporate Identity for Blue Point Aviation Sydney.
Corporate Identity for Prêt a part Sydney.
Corporate Identity for K-Plas Dubai.
Interior design of Cup and Cino Dubai.
PORTFOLIO AVAILABLE BOTH PRINTED AND ON CD: as a power point
presentation