Muhammad Nafisur Rahman

About Muhammad Nafisur Rahman

Muhammad Rahman, M.Des, B.Arch, is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Design and PhD candidate in Architecture — both in the College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati. He holds a M.Des. in Graphic Design from University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC (2014) and B.Arch. from BRAC University, Bangladesh (2007). He worked as Branded Environments Designer-II at Perkins+Will Chicago. He completed his 4-week \'typography and design\' summer certificate courses at Basel School of Design (2013). He has held an appointment as a Lecturer-II at BRAC University since August 2007 and is currently on study leave. Muhammad is passionate about teaching. In conjunction with his research and professional affiliations, he has taught students in communication design and architecture programs in USA, Portugal and Bangladesh for over seven years.Owing to his background as a practitioner, Muhammad takes a strong interdisciplinary and practice-informed approach to teaching that gives him the ability to bridge between theory and practice of communication design. As a practicing architect, educator and photographer, Muhammad has an ability to integrate his background in architecture with graphic design as an intuitive fusion. His works consist of various interior and space design projects, promotion materials, brand designs, experimental typography, book and poster design etc. Muhammad has developed his own passion and character in spatial photography, visual abstraction - his works placed in different exhibitions and got awards. His research interests are Design pedagogy, visual identity and culture, dimensional typography in urban context, cross-disciplinary practices and spatial occupation in environmental graphic design. During his 6 years of university-level teaching experience, Muhammad primarily involved in architecture design studios in different levels, also taught courses of graphic communications, construction studios etc. At UIC School of Design, he taught \'Design Photography\' course for consecutive semesters. As a graduate student he designed school\'s new brochure in collaboration, contributed as the lead photographer for the new website for the school of design and worked as a visual researcher position for the Video production team of UIC Obama Presidential Library and Museum design proposal. He is involved in conducting various design workshops, particularly in University of Evora, Portugal under European Union mobility research scholarship in 2011.

Experience

1. Member, Segd Academic Task Force

   SEGD

   Oct 2022 — Present · US

Education

• University of Cincinnati

  Graduate Certificate in Urban Design

  2017 — 2019

• University of Illinois at Chicago

  Masters of Design (M.Des.)

  2012 — 2014

• BRAC University

  Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)

  2002 — 2006

• University of Cincinnati

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

• Schule für Gestaltung Basel

  Summer Design School

  2013 — 2013

Skills

• Graphic Design
• Autocad
• Adobe Illustrator
• Architecture
• Vector Illustration
• Illustrator
• Architectures
• Sketching
• Typography
• Watercolor
• Adobe Photoshop
• Architectural Design
• Interior Design
• Poster Design
• Indesign
• Teaching
• Layout
• Skechup
• Logo Design
• Page Layout
• Graphic Des
• Architectural Drawings
• Posters
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Drawing
• Photography
• Photoshop
• Sketchup
• Corel Draw
• Architectural History
• Visual Communication