Experience

Mughals Pakistan (Pvt)

Designed, manfactured, supervised and delivered furniture pieces for one
hundred rooms at under-construnction Serena Hotel (Peshawer)- ongoing

Markhor 3D

Experimented and produced 3d printing filament from plastic bottle for mass production and sale, an unexplored field in Pakistan (2023)

Kaizen Construction Ltd, Pakistan

Design Consultant and Research Associate. Design Strategy,
3D printing, research for sustainable building innovations,
local material exploration - ongoing

Minky & Associates, Pakistan

Designer and Research Associate. Experimental urban design
research for city building, short term project (2022-2023)

Salone del Satellite 2023, Milan

Invitee at largest design expo in the world, under design buisness ‘rsk’ (2023).
First Pakistani designer to display work at Salone del Satellite in history

Swagmagic, New York

Product designer. remote graphic design work (2021-2023)

Workshop lead for ‘Climate Crisis in Pakistan-
designing for damage prevention’ 

Held at Beconhouse National University, Lahore (2022)

randr research Institute Founder and Organizer

Online platform for sharing research. Creating Op’ed, research
environment, brought together designers from across platforms
and regions to collaborate- ongoing 

Satellite Project - Founder

Annual online residency conducted under the randr platform.
Launched two online exhibitions and got reviewed by mutiple design platforms

Interwood Ltd - Furniture Designer, Pakistan

Material and design experimentation, CNC machinery and craftsmanship.
Led redesign of new luxury collection, evaluated and reported changes in
door building set up, markedchanges to reduce costing
Production system management (2021-2022)

Sullivan Fabrication Studio, Chicago

Woodshop management, CNC machining, 3d Printing, mold making.
Led installation of covid guards across organization. (2019-2021)

Dana Majors Art Studio, Chicago

Business Administratio and Luminere Fabrication (2021)

Italian Design Day

Selected from AIADO for external project between IIT institute of
Design and SAIC, organized by the Italian Culture Institute

Led by Designers Gianni Venneziano and Luciana Di Virgilio,
co-founders of Veneziano+Team and the Italian Embassy in the United States (2020)

Jusitce Fazal Karim

Editor and Research Assistant for Justice (Retd.) Fazal Karim
Edited ‘Change is the Only Constant’, a book written for the
layperson to understand the intricacies of law
Designed book cover ‘Change is the Only Constant’

ISBN: 9698372477 (2018-2019)

Aga Khan Cultural Services 

Helped create normanclature for hundreds of mosaics at Unesco
Heritage Picture Wall in Lahore Fort
Conservation of broken mosaics, laser scanning of hidden architectural structures (2017)

  Assistantships 

Prototyping for Furniture, SAIC

Teaching Asssistant
Worked with furniture designer and professor
Seth Kellar (2020)

Master of Designed Objects Intensive Program

Teaching Assistant
Worked with Designers Eric Hotchkiss,
Gene Munger, Luid Rodriguez for inital training of incoming class (2020)

Design@Homan Square

Teaching Assitant
Worked with Designer Eric Hotckiss for neighborhood (Homan Square + North Lawndale)
walkability program (2019-2020)

Regional South Asian Humanities Conference, LUMS

Research Assistant
Worked with Dr. Sameen Mohsin to organize thirteenth humanities and social sciences conference “Mapping Emerging Scholarship on South Asia” Critical Interventions (2018)

  Exhibitions

Satelitle Project 2023 - Online Curation

Salone del Satellite, Milan 2023 - first collection ︎︎︎

Satellite Project 2022 - Exhibition curated by Rio Chen

Terrain Biennial, Chicago 2021 - Curated by Cortney Lederer

Graduate Exhibtion, Chicago 2021 - SAIC Galleries

Wabash Incubator at LeRoy Neiman Center 2021 - Solo

SITE Gallery Director’s Show, Chicago 2021

Faiz Ahmed Faiz Gallery, Lahore 2020

Seoul Nation University, Seoul 2017 - End of year Exhibtion

UNESCO Rediscovering Harappa Exhibition, Lahore 2017

School of the Art Instititue of Chicago (SAIC

  Masters of Design in Designed Objects (2021)

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Bachelors of Arts in Political Science (2018)

Seoul National University (SNU)

Exchange (2017)