Text Box: Abeer Hasanin, Ph.D. E-mail1: abeerhasanin@gmail.com E-mail2: abeerhasanin@hotmail.com URL1:http://www.arti-arch.org    Text Box: Specialization/Interests:     Signage Systems Design, Poster, Brochure and Logo Design, Figurative Painting Depicted from Scenes in Historical Areas, Culture Based Composition and Abstractions.       Text Box: Biography Dr. Abeer Hasanin is assistant professor, graphic designer and painter. She graduated from the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, Zamalek-Cairo, Egypt in 1989. She holds the degrees of Masters and Doctor of Philosophy from the same University. With a wide variety of interests in teaching, painting, and design she bridges between design in academe and in practice. She holds the assistant professor position in the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University in Cairo (On leave). Currently, she is an adjunct assistant professor at the Interior Design Department for girls, King Faisal University, Dammam, SA. Her Master thesis titled: "Participatory Design and Its Impact on Poster Effectiveness" - has addressed the integration of cultural dimensions into aesthetic aspects in a collaborative poster design process.  She has produced a number of posters for Environmental Education and Conservation. Influenced by the involvement in several research studies, her early design work emphasized the value of participatory models as methods that help upgrade the environment and increase the effectiveness of posters through public awareness. Since 1995, she has developed an interest in information design exploring the role of signs and signage systems in achieving environmental graphic design goals. This is based on the belief that good environmental graphics would foster the urban context and would enhance human behavior in that context. Dr. Abeer's Ph.D. dissertation is titled: "Aesthetic and Functional Perspectives for Designing Signs within the Framework of Environmental Graphic Design." In her work she addressed tensions and paradoxes between way-finding, image-ability, and legibility of environmental graphic messages. This was reflected in a dissertation project that introduces a series of environmental graphic information within the context of Old Cairo.  Her paintings explore the relationship between the organic and the geometric, depicting themes from the Egyptian culture and nature. Through her explorations she succeeded in breaking up the unity of the center and creating central plurality, an aesthetic value many would claim modern artists were struggling to achieve. The butterfly, the flower, sailing are paintings that illustrate this quality. Also, the cultural richness of Egypt is highly emphasized in her paintings. Opera Cairo, the Pyramids, the National Theater of Egypt, and some theatrical scenes illustrate this quality. Abeer does not limit herself to one media. Rather, she utilizes acrylic, oil, pastel, ink on different surfaces including carton and wood boards, canvas, regular paper, as well as computer generated art work. Dr. Abeer's Academic experience includes teaching courses in basic design, printing and textile design studios, pottery studios, computer-based presentation techniques, and electives in poster and signage systems design. Her professional experience includes displays of her painting work in a number of exhibitions in the United States and Egypt. Recently, she has designed series of brochures of regional landscape and architecture competitions as part of promotional campaigns of a number of real estate agencies.