Board of Directors
IRWAN HARNOKO
President Director
Irwan is graduate of design and fine arts at Trisakti University, where he received a Master’s degree at the same University. He is a graphic designer, educator, art curator and jury. He designs posters and visual identity. He has held exhibitions and design events, but also been a jury and participated in various prestigious poster exhibitions, both in Indonesia and abroad (especially in China, Poland, South Korea, Japan, Russia, USA, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Lithuania, Ukraine, Mexico, Ecuador, Hungary, Cyprus). He is the founder and the leader of the Worldwide Graphic Designers community which has held exhibitions in four countries: Cyprus, Greece, Indonesia, Iran. Worldwide Graphic Designers (WGD) is a group of graphic designers which organize projects of poster design with social content. The participants, all established designers from all over the world, are invited to create collaboration posters, aiming the awareness, the sensitization and social reflection. He is also one of the founder of the Type Unite (TU) community (Members consist of several countries from within and outside the country: Indonesia, USA, Poland, Turkey, Ecuador, Hungary, United Arab Emirates and South Korea). TU has held exhibitions in four countries: Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, Turkey. His works have been presented at over 100 exhibitions. Currently Irwan works as a lecturer at Pradita University especially in Typography course.
"the top 100 winners of the 2016 contest" of "The 5th INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST"
Nicosia, the city of Utopia - Cyprus
Typomania 2017 on 27 May 2017 - Black Plan Exhibition - Moscow
“Cool Words” Words Art and Design exhibition - April 2017 at Nanjing Art Institute
International Poster Biennale in Wenzhou, China, 2016
ARAFAT AL-NAIM
Advisor of WGD
Dr. Arafat Al-Naim (1966) BFA, MFA, PhD in graphic arts and MST in art teaching. Academic
Leader, graphic artist, designer, and the moving spirit behind international art and design
projects. Lectured and presented at international conferences and exhibitions in the UK,
Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, North Ireland, Macedonia, Germany, Bulgaria, USA,
Canada, Cyprus, South Africa, Tunisia, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Egypt, China, Indonesia,
Liechtenstein, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Jordan. Graphic works of Dr. Arafat can be
found in Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas (USA), Portland Art Museum (USA), Museum of
Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth (UK), Wrexham Yale Memorial Gallery, Wrexham (UK), State
Museum Gyõr (Hungary), University of Wales Collection, Aberystwyth (UK), Nord Art -
Kunstwerk Carlshütte (Germany) and others. Outstanding Contribution to Education (The Middle
East Education Leadership Awards 2016), Best Professor in Design (Asian Education
Leadership Awards 2014, 2017) and “Rhea Baily” Art Award (IBC, Cambridge, UK, 2008)
awards, Dr. Arafat has received in recognition of his contribution to global visual design,
education and professional practice. Dr. Al-Naim is Professor of Graphic Arts and Design, former
Dean of College of Design at American University in the Emirates, Member of ICO-D (Education
Network), Curator of the Emirates International Poster Festival(EIPF), International
SYMPOSIODESIGN - Amman, Chair of International Design Conference(IDC-DXB), and
executive director of the United Designs Alliance.
