Dina Fawakhiri

Born and raised in the UAE, Dina Fawakhiri returned to her native Amman to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design in 1997, and began working in advertising soon after.

Today Dina is the Creative Director of one of Jordan’s most prominent agencies, Wunderman, with numerous awards to her name. As a young artist, Dina’s favorite medium was pencil on paper, preferring black and white to color, with smooth rounded lines and perfect forms.

But the fast-paced, commercially-driven advertising world eventually influenced her work as an artist. Inspired by the ease and speed of digital illustration, Dina’s lines got simpler, cleaner, bolder and faster.

She began experimenting with color and found herself drawn to digital art as a new medium that lent itself to surrealist conceptual exploration. Several group exhibitions followed, and led to the “Space on board” skateboard exhibition in 2012, which presented a new and much welcome challenge – 3D work. Dina’s paper Mache and wood carved skateboards were an opportunity.