Adjunct Lecturer at American University in Cairo

Rafiq Elmansy

Cairo, Egypt

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Rafiq Elmansy is an Adobe community professional,user group manager, Adobe certified expert, friend of Icograda, designer, instructor, and book author in the design and Adobe productions. His experience includes 12 years in creative design production, management, and training. Currently, he is managing his own design studio (http://www.pixelconsultations.com) and works as Adobe prerelease community manager for Adobe ME products.

He is also writing books about design and technology for FocalPress, O'Reilly and Wiley:

- Illustrator Foundations (http://bit.ly/AI-CS6), published by FocalPress, November 5th, 2012.

- Photoshop 3D for Animators (http://bit.ly/PS-3D), published by FocalPress, November 18th, 2010.

- Photoshop 3D for Animators (Japanese version) by Born Digital (http://www.borndigital.co.jp/book/detail.php?id=221).

- Quick Guide to Flash Catalyst (http://bit.ly/FlashCata), published by O’Reilly Media, August 18th, 2011.

Also, Rafiq is writing tutorials and articles for Adobe Inspire magazine, Communitymx.com, Graphicdesign.com, Activetuts, and his worldwide known design blog (http://www.graphicmania.net). Here are some samples of his articles:

- http://www.graphicdesign.com/author/rafiq-elmansy/

- http://www.rafiqelmansy.com/books-and-articles/

- http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/10/patterns-ideas-illustrator-cs6.html

He used to write Adobe certification practice for uCertify.com.

Rafiq is a speaker and trainer about design, technology and Adobe tools, and he spoke in different events and sessions in both English and Arabic such as Adobe user group meetings, Hawaii user group, Armenia user group, and universities in Cairo.

In addition to the above, he is a jury member of many design contests such as Adobe Design Achievements, Poster For Tomorrow, and the Annual Design Award.
Education
- Certification Flash
  
  Macromedia Flash MX Designer Certification
  
  2004 - 2004
- Certification
  
  CIW Associate Certification
  
  2001 - 2001
- Certification
  
  CIW Professional Certification
  
  2001 - 2001
- Deploma
  
  IBM
  
  2001 - 2001
- Training course
  
  BBSA Program (Basic Business skills Acquisition Program)
  
  2000 - 2000
- BSce. Agriculture
  
  Tanta University
  
  1996 - 1999
Experience
- Adjunct Lecturer
  
  American University in Cairo
  
  Sep 2013 - Present (11 years 2 months)
  
  Adjunct lecturer for Design Practice courses for Graphic Design major students.
- Author
  
  Wiley-Blackwell
  
  Nov 2012 - Present (12 years)
  
  Wrote the following titles with Wiley:
  Teach Yourself Visually SEO, Wiley and Sons, 2013: http://bit.ly/tyv_seo
- Prerelease Community Manager
  
  Adobe
  
  Sep 2011 - Present (13 years 2 months)
  
  Manage the prerelease testing of the upcoming Adobe products that support Arabic language.
- Author
  
  O'Reilly Media
  
  May 2011 - Present (13 years 6 months)
  
  Wrote the following book for O'Reilly Media:
  Quick Guide to Flash Catalyst, O'Reilly Media, 2011: http://bit.ly/FlashCata
- Author
  
  Taylor & Francis Group
  
  Sep 2010 - Present (14 years 2 months)
  
  Wrote the following books for Focal Press:
  Illustrator CS6 Foundations, Focal Press, 2010. http://bit.ly/AI-CS6
  Photoshop 3D for Animators, Focal Press, 2012 http://bit.ly/PS-3D
- Founder
  
  Pixel Consultations
  
  2010 - Present (14 years)
  
  Manager and creative director for the company projects in the field of web design, graphic design, animation, and logo design.
- Editor in Chief
  
  Graphic Mania online magazine
  
  2009 - Present (15 years)
  
  The founder and the editor-in-chief in Graphic Mania (http://www.graphicmania.net) design blog. I also write articles and tutorials about design industry.
- Contributor writer
  
  Adobe Design & Developer Center
  
  Feb 2006 - Present (18 years 9 months)
  
  Write articles and tutorials about different Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, and Adobe Touch applications.
- Adobe User Group manager
  
  Adobe user group in Egypt
  
  Feb 2005 - Present (19 years 9 months)
  
  Manage the first official Adobe user group in Egypt and provide training and support for Adobe users in the MENA area.
- Digital artist and designer
  
  Freelance Digital Artist, Composer and Web Designer
  
  Jan 2000 - Present (24 years 10 months)
  
  Graphic designer and digital artist.
- Writer
  
  Training Simple
  
  2013 - 2013
- Writer
  
  Training Simple
  
  2013 - 2013
- Senior Multimedia Graphic Designer
  
  Harf Information Technology
  
  Dec 2001 - Jan 2010 (8 years 1 month)
  
  Participated in projects for governmental and respected clients in Egypt and all over the middle east region in the following fields:
  -Web application design and flash introductions.
  -Flash projects and learning application.
  -Disk top applications and CDs for children, Islamic and other fields.
  - Mobiles and Pocket PC applications
  -Printout materials for CDs covers and packages
  -Logo Design
- Graphic and Web design, Flash animator
  
  Freelance Projects
  
  Jan 2001 - Dec 2001 (11 months)
  
  Web and graphic designer, Caralog, France.
  • http://s148209708.onlinehome.fr/index.php
  • http://www.beedesignstudio.com/Caralog/preview/preview.html
  
  Web designer, Gulf eOne Inc., KSA
  •Part time web designer for websites and Flash presentations and demos
  
  Flash designer, Bluevolt inc., USA
  •Flash designer for elearning course
  
  Flash Designer, Bluesky, USA
  •Flash Designer for the company site
  • http://www.beedesignstudio.com/Blog/bluesky/main.html
  
  Graphic and web designer, T3b, LLC, USA
  •Graphic designer and web designer for the company website
  
  Flash Designer, Insala Inc., USA
  •Flash designer for the company websites, demos and presentations.
  •http://www.insala.com/gateway.asp?log=cdc
  
  Web and Flash designer, Universal Printing site, USA
  •http://www.insala.com/gateway.asp?log=cdc
  
  Flash animation designer
  •Flash designer for movie animation
  • http://www.makeeverydayaholiday.com/wp-content/uploads/medah.html
- Graphic Designer
  
  Arabesque Advertising
  
  Jul 2001 - Sep 2001 (2 months)
  
  Printing graphic designer and logo designers.
- Web graphic designer
  
  Mrco-Egypt
  
  Aug 2000 - Dec 2000 (4 months)
  
  Web designer for many web projects.
Awards

- Jury board member, Adobe Design Achievement Award ADAA 2012

- Judging member, Annual Design Awards (http://www.annualdesignawards.com/the-jury-2012.html)

- Icograda mentor (Illustration), Adobe Design Achievement Award ADAA 2011
Affiliations

• Friend of ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) • Adobe community expert • Adobe user group manager • Adobe Contributor writer • Adobe Certified Expert
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