Nour Oumousse
— Designer

About

Hi, I’m Nour, a Brand Designer with over 9 years of experience creating impactful brand identities.
Specialized in minimalist aesthetics, app icon design, type design, and brand development.

Currently

Crafting brand identities @ OD LLC

Previously

Art Director @ EBrand&Partner, and design contractor to: African Conservation Foundation, Today's Budget, Ponder, Quokkie, Tellhop, Rewilding India, Culture Booster...

Additional info

Read some Testimonials about me
Candy for your eyes on my Dribbble
Read my thoughts on Substack
Remote – feel free to change my mind

Work

Biography

Hi, I’m Nour, a Brand Designer with over 9 years of experience creating impactful identities.
Passionate about minimalist aesthetics, app icon design, type design, and brand development.

Personal info

Name: Nour Oumousse
Email: nour@oumousse.com
Phone: (+212) 669 83 11 52
Address: Rabat, Morocco

Experience


Founder & Brand Designer

OD LLC : Oct 2020 - Present

Designed unique branding assets that helped startups establish a strong market presence, leading to increased brand recognition and user engagement.Provided consultancy for in-house teams on brand guidelines and how to use the brand assets.Worked on rebranding legacy brands while preserving their core image.Collaborated with developers and designers to ensure smooth asset creation and delivery.Contracted to clients like: African Conservation Foundation, Today's Budget App, Ponder, Quokkie, Tellhop, Rewilding India, Culture Booster, and many more.

Art Director

eBrands Partners, Inc : Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

Leading and mentoring a team of graphic and motion designers, optimizing workflow, and improving creative output.Assigning tasks, reviewing the work, and giving feedback.Recruiting for design jobs.Creating assets for an Apple Vision Pro app.

Illustrator & Brand Identity Designer

Self Employed : Jun 2016 - Oct 2020

Contracted and collaborated with various small studios and agencies throughout this period.Built a strong personal brand online and a presence in the design community.Worked on various brand identity projects over the years.
Specialized in creating Android adaptive app icons and iOS app icons.

Education


Specialized Institute Of Applied Technology

Software Engineering : Sep 2018 - Jun 2020

First Year: Learning the basics of Algorithms, the C Programming language, and Microsoft Products
Second Year: Learning C#, SQL, Microsoft VS, Web Dev ( HTML, CSS, JS ), and some soft skills training.
After School: I learned ReactJS, GitHub, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, and Python.

Self-taught Design Studies

Graphic Design, Design Theory, Illustration, Art Direction, UI Design : 2015 - Ongoing

Learned Graphic Design, Branding by doing, and took online courses and curriculums along the way, from the Interaction-Design Foundation, Coursera, and others.
Mastery of Adobe Illustrator with 12 years of using different versions of the software, similar case for Photoshop.
Learned modeling, 3d illustration, and generative design using nodes in Blender.
Learned and continue learning Figma as it has grown to be my main design tool.
Learned 3d illustration on Spline.
Learned and used Procreate on iPad as my main sketching tool, as I moved from using Wacom with Clip Studio Paint.
Learned to build web pages on Carrd, Webflow, Framer, and Softr.
Used various AI Software and tools to assist me with my design process, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly...

Skillset


Design & Management

  • Branding

  • Art Direction

  • Illustration

  • Design Recruitment & Management

Tools

  • Adobe Suite ( especially illustrator )

  • Figma

  • Blender, Spline 3D

  • Airtable, Softr, carrd, Framer

Languages

  • - English

  • - French

  • - Arabic

Notable Achievements


Logolounge Book 13 Award

15 of my logos were selected to be in the most popular logo book in the world.
Check my profile.

Logolounge Book 12 Award

13 of my logos were selected to be in the most popular logo book in the world.
Check my profile.

Behance Feature

Featured by Behance 4 times, check my profile.

Public Speaking & Community Projects

DevoxxMa Conference 2023

Let's Talk App Icons ( Gallery ) : A quicky talk in the biggeset dev conference in Morocco 2023.

DevoxxMa Conference 2024

Web Projects Preserving Moroccan Culture : A quicky talk in the biggeset dev conference in Morocco 2024.

BizTech Meetup 2023

How To Generate Leads As An Independent Designer? : A meetup talk in ENIM School Rabat.

I made ByMoroccans

A collection of projects on the web made by Moroccans

Let’s work together
on your next project.

I wouldn't want to miss the chance to connect with you.
So drop me a line and we can chat!
You can also reach me via email at:

nour@oumousse.com