Bio

I design and program functional software and objects in the form of 2-D and 3-D design. I work as a product (software) designer at PagerDuty, I teach programming as a craft at CCA, and I research + design independently. My main interests lie in the relationships that culture, design, and technology build once worked with as a medium.

Please reach out on any of the channels below to meet, hang, or talk about anything; messages and introductions are very welcomed. <3

omarmhmmd.com • are.na • cv • email • github • instagram

Currently/Recently

• Showed the Bamyan typeface in Seoul for Unrealized Archive 7: Text to Image
• Featured on itsnicethat: *Reviving Afghan culture through design and typography.*
• Published an essay on mosque architecture in America.
• Teaching the MFA Design graduate exhibition website class at CCA.
• Published my first Farsi-Arabic script typeface titled Bamyan.
• Taught MFA Design students at CCA through the course Web 2 Print how to program and design in the browser with Jon Sueda.

I update this every 3-6 months if something nice happens. You can go to the archive for old news. This list is in chronological order starting at most current/recent.

Projects

Currently/Recently Archived

• Designed and programmed Flags of Afghanistan, a visual research project analyzing the design history of Afghanistan’s flags.
• Invited as a guest lecturer to Dr James Housefield’s Design Aesthetics & Experience course at UC Davis.
• Designed and programmed Marcaz, a digital center for Afghan visual and digital cultural research.
• Invited as a guest critic to Brett Snyder's Letterforms and Typography course at UC Davis.
• Programmed a simple & thoughtful menu bar timer app. →
• Programmed a website that places the user on an abstracted prayer rug, in a panoramic landscape, facing the physical direction of Qiblah. →
• Published an essay for the Are.na annual titled *Tools for Cultural Production: Archiving Voice, Culture, and Community.*
• Designed an identity for upstate New York VC firm Armory Square Ventures.
• Invited as a guest lecturer and critic to Shiraz Gallab's Interactive and Experience Design course at SUNY Purchase.
• Designed the identity for Latinoamérica film festival and platform CiNEOLA with Habib Placencia. Programmed the website with Jacob Martinez.
• Designed the identity for CCS Bard graduate student Muheb Esmat's thesis exhibition No End in Sight.
• Gave a talk to CCA MFA students at the Curatorial Research Bureau on how to design an exhibition at SFMOMA.
• Working on a Farsi-Arabic script typeface titled Bamyan.