Salman Jawed/Faiza Adamjee/Ali S. Husain/Mustafa Mehdi/Hina Fancy/Zaid Hameed

Live and work in Karachi

Salman Jawed is co-founder of Coalesce Design Studios, a house of multidisciplinary designers that go beyond form and function to interpret an intangible into a tangible built product. Faiza Adamjee is a concept writer and thinker. She focuses on big ideas, concepts and copywriting, along with graphic designing. Ali S. Husain is a Karachi based graphic designer. His style is illustrative, minimalistic, and edgy. He has recently launched a line of paper products, which aim to change the face of graphic design in Pakistan. Mustafa Mehdi is an architect by profession, who also practices graphic design, photography and product design. He is co-founder of Coalesce Design Studio. Hina Fancy is a textile designer, who works as a teacher and independent print designer. Famous for her unique style of experimental printing with natural dyes, she has exhibited her art in Pakistan and abroad. Zaid Hameed is a textile designer by profession, celebrating the indigenous crafts of Pakistan. He fuses traditional techniques and patterns with contemporary techniques and forms, helping to revive the dying art of ceramics in Sindh. They are a group of six independent designers, working together to redefine design, and the merging of the arts. From representing Pakistan at the Dubai Design Week 2016, to exhibiting their idea of Utopia at the London design Biennale, and putting up an installation at the Alchemy Festival in the Southbank Centre in 2017, the group is setting new standards internationally.

The artists write of their work for KB17: “Daalaan is an abstract playground where visitors are invited to revisit the utopian worlds they create as children. A place where anything is possible. A space without borders, where imagination has no bounds. Where people get together, and enjoy a playful moment in time... a setting where strangers become friends. The pieces evoke conversation. A setting that is incomplete without its participants, each one is designed to make people interact through play. The space is an open platform that is inviting to ideas and change. Feel the nostalgia, evoke the memories, and become a child. Leave all inhibitions behind. Rethink how you have changed, how you can change back, what was, what is, and what should be.”