Graham Atkinson. New Design Director for grow, award-winning Doha design agency.

grow is adding to its creative team in a big way with the appointment of Graham Atkinson. Hot on the heels of winning three design awards in the USA for identities created for Auto Lease, Al Liwan and First Finance, grow is signalling its intention to cement its position in the top tier of branding, advertising and design agencies in Qatar and the Middle East by appointing Graham Atkinson to lead the design team at grow.

Graham is an award-winning designer with significant design experience in global and local branding and corporate identity programmes. He has knowledge of digital environments, environmental design, such as sport stadium branding, print literature including annual reports, photographic art direction, print management, implementation of design elements, print, digital, advertising, film and video work.

His award-winning designs have received major accolades from professional design associations and include the International Society of Typographic Designers Award for Corporate Identity and the American Corporate Identity Award.

Major projects undertaken by Graham include FedEx, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Abbott Labs, AECOM, Avanade and Banana Republic.

Graham brings this experience to Doha after working for some of the world’s leading branding and design agencies including Landor San Francisco and Interbrand Amsterdam.

“We’re truly ecstatic to get someone of Graham’s calibre and design gravitas here in Doha,” said Anthony Ryman, Managing Director, grow. “He’s really going to lift the bar in terms of expanding our offer into environmental graphics and brand consistency. His appointment reinforces our position as Doha’s most refreshingly creative advertising and design agency focused on brands.”