Manal Elias

• Film poster & press kit for short film "A Christmas Wish" (Director: Eduardo Michel Piza).

• Designed Ergobaby's Fall 2015 marketing collateral and presentation toolkit.
• Retouched all selected photographs from Fall 2015 collection.

• Film poster for short film "Chaos" (Director: Ibrahim Nada).
• Film poster for short film "Alone" (Director: Aymen Khoja).

Captured and retouched high-quality images of film sets for use in the film's poster and marketing collateral.
Productions: "Rose Garden" (Director: Rafael Nani); "Alone" (Director: Aymen Khoja); "Divine" (Director: Ali Farshchi);
"A Truth In The Sand" (Director: Bandar Al Mutairi); "Running" (Director: Ahmed Al Ayooti).

Edit volunteering description• 10 hours/week.
• Administrative: assisting the intake case manager with mail filing, handling telephone inquiries and providing detailed information about the shelter’s services.
• Shelter: assisting the Resident Associate with cleaning, organizing, tutoring the children and serving dinner.

• Visual Identity of HADAYA Jewelry.
• Visual identity of LA COSA Entertainment.

Designed t-shirts for Abu Dhabi entertainment company FLASH.

• Designed new visual identity for Starwood Industries L.L.C.
• Captured & retouched high-quality images of interiors, factory and employees for the catalog.

• Created visual identity, packaging, mural and product designs.
• Communicated with clients and manufacturers.
• Clients: Gerab National Enterprises L.L.C. (exhibition stand at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Conference); TINKAH branding & promotional material.

Exhibition of my photographic series A House For A Home in collaboration with Aia Atoui.
"Stemming from a personal exploration to further understand the impact of Dubai’s shape-shifting landscape on one’s personal identity, Atoui and Elias present a series of haunting images that evoke a loss of self in a place where perpetual change and visual disruptions in the urban landscape are the norm. ATOUI and ELIAS further state that living '​in a city with a demographic comprising mostly of ‘expats’- a city in a constant state of flux that reinvents and reinterprets itself on a daily basis — is to have no stable sense of one’s identity.'​

The artists used unfinished homes as the backdrop for their projections — relics of the economic crash that evoke a feeling of abandonment post real estate boom. The projections are then documented using long-exposure staged photographs. Similar to these projections, being an expat in Dubai is to never really belong, but nevertheless adapt. Once projected, these portraits defragment and take on the shape of the building’s façade, before disappearing with no visual trace."​ — The Third Line

• Created brand identities and brand engagement systems for large corporations.
• Harmonious team work with Client Services and Brand Strategy departments.
• Communicated with printing presses and manufacturers.
• Pitched Design solutions to clients such as: National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia
(Bahri), ALJ Financial Services, Motivate Publishing, Air Wick by Reckitt Benckiser.

Presentation followed by a Q&A of my photographic series A House For A Home in collaboration with Aia Atoui, at Slidefest VII. In these photographs, portraits of Dubai expats are projected onto abandoned homes in the city that suffered majorly from the financial crisis. Playing on the ephemerality of temporary installations, the project evokes the eternal flux of a city in a constant state of change.

The project can be viewed in my portfolio.

Designed advertising campaigns for McDonalds (Middle East), Dubai Shopping Festival, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank.

Captured and retouched images of fashion events, nightclubs, press conferences, and concerts for lifestyle and fashion publication POSE Magazine.

Exhibition of my photographic series "Dichotomy" (darkroom prints).

Assisted the Producer in coordinating reality TV show MADE.