Abdul Khawar
Digital Designer at Self-employed
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAbdul Khawar is a versatile digital designer with 13 years of experience crafting web, print, and motion work across advertising, publishing, and nonprofit sectors. He has repeatedly bridged visual design and front-end development—moving from frontend developer to Lead Visual Designer at Meedan and now operating as a self-employed digital designer in Richmond, BC. His background includes designing weeklies and annual fashion magazines, building intranet and web systems, and shaping digital media for organizations like Qatar Foundation and Adbusters. Known as a cross-pollinator and experimentalist, he blends UX training from Vancouver Film School with practical programming and IT workflow experience to solve both aesthetic and systemic problems. Colleagues value his ability to translate editorial and organizational needs into coherent visual systems that scale across platforms.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Business and Information Technology, Programming, Bachelors in Business and Information Technology, Programming at Beaconhouse-InformaticsDigital Design, UX Design, Digital Design, UX Design at Vancouver Film School
Github Skills (10)
guardian9
expert9
contentful9
static-site7
jekyll7
site-generator6
database5
build-system4
sql4
static-site-generator3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qatarfoundation/qfnext
Aug 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:120 PRs, 304 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 2 months
designbysoil/designbysoil.com
Sep 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:31 PRs, 75 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years
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