Maryam Ahmed is an Iraqi–Finnish graphic designer based in Lahti, Finland. Her practice focuses on visual identity and editorial design, working across both cultural and commercial projects.
Her work explores design as a means of connecting people, languages and places. Each project begins with research and conversation, seeking to understand the values, context and purpose behind the work before translating these into clear visual systems.
Collaboration is an integral part of her process. Working closely with clients, writers, strategists and creative teams from the outset allows ideas to develop collectively and gives direction room to emerge through discussion, testing and refinement.
Her visual language moves between restrained systems and more expressive graphic forms, depending on the needs of each project. Across both approaches, her work is guided by clarity, structure and an interest in creating identities that communicate across languages and remain adaptable over time.
Experience: 2024–2025 Flint Culture ● 2019–2023 Graphic design bachelors degree, Southeast Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK) ● 2022–2023 Avidly, internship ● 2021 UUNI Communications, internship ● 2018 Avidly, internship