setayesh ahmadi
Graphic designer — portfolio Identity · Editorial · Exhibition · Print · Digital 2026

setayesh
ahmadi

graphic designer

Working between the press, the stand and the screen — exhibition identity and trade stands, logotypes, photobooks and Persian editorial typesetting, catalogs and company profiles, and the digital content that carries them.

Age
25
Education
Sooreh University
BA, Graphics
In practice
2 years
since graduating in 2024
About — 00

about

Portrait of Setayesh Ahmadi seated in afternoon window light
Setayesh Ahmadi

I trained in the graphics program at Sooreh University and have spent the two years since graduation moving between printed matter, built space and the screen: exhibition posters and postcards, a logotype rebrand, a black-and-white photobook, Persian literary spreads set right-to-left, catalogs and company profiles, a trade stand for Philips, and the landing pages and social content that surround a launch.

Most of my work starts in a text block. I like long Persian columns that hold their rhythm at body size, a photograph that is allowed to be quiet, and a grid strict enough that one deliberate break reads as a decision. At HTN Prime since October 2024, after four years at Sooreh and four more freelancing in Persian and English.

What I do

  • Exhibition & brand identity
  • Logotypes & brand systems
  • Trade stands & environmental graphics
  • Book and editorial design, LTR + RTL
  • Catalogs, brochures & company profiles
  • Social content & campaign assets
  • Landing pages & site content
Selected work — 01
01

ali gholi ziaee

ClientIranian Photographers' Association
ScopeExhibition identity, poster, postcard
SettingBilingual — فارسی / English

Identity for a photography exhibition, built on the photographer's own frames. Two poster routes were taken to print: one lays a thin red rule over a ruined façade and lets the bilingual title lock into the rubble line; the other drops the contrast to a rose field and centres a single working portrait between registration marks. The postcard set carries the same lockup onto oxblood stock.

A2 poster Two routes Postcard set Persian / Latin lockup Registration marks Print production
Exhibition poster hung on a concrete wall: a ruined stone façade overlaid with thin red rules and a bilingual title
Route ATitle set against the rubble line

The red rule is the only thing on the sheet that isn't a photograph — so it has to do the work of a frame, a date and a signature at once.

Route A was drawn straight onto the façade: the title sits where the wall has already broken, and the thin rules pick up the lines the ruin makes on its own. Everything else — dates, venue, credits — drops to a single red-flagged block at the foot, so the poster reads as one image from across a room.

route b & the postcard set

Oxblood 100% — the colour the show was printed on
Second poster route: a muted rose field with a photographic street scene and the title set low
Route BRose field, low title
Poster route B with a portrait of a seated worker and a Persian nastaliq title above the Latin lockup
Route BPortrait variant
Invitation card and envelope falling against a deep red backdrop
Postcard front and back showing a photograph of a narrow street and the exhibition details
Postcard set with a red band, portrait photograph and bilingual typography
Selected work — 02
02

kumu

ClientKumu Modern Furniture
ScopeLogotype, brand system, guidelines
FromKOMO → KUMU

A furniture maker changing its name, and a logotype that had to change with it. The old KOMO mark already had the right instinct — wide, open, a little architectural — so the rebrand kept the instinct and rebuilt the drawing. Every letter now comes off one construction: the same angled stroke makes the K, the M and the U, which is why the word holds together when it sits over a photograph of a chair.

Logotype Letterform construction Brand guidelines Type scale Colour system Presentation
The KUMU logotype set over a photograph of a wooden armchair
Final markKUMU Modern Furniture
Presentation cover reading KOMO, Logo Type Design
Designer vision page, Persian rationale set over a pale organic pattern
The previous KOMO logotype on a dark navy page
BeforeThe mark it replaced
Logo route one: the KOMO wordmark redrawn
Route 01KOMO, redrawn
Logo route two: the KUMU wordmark
Route 02KUMU
The KOMO mark applied over an olive green sofa
Construction page showing the shared angled stroke behind each letter, drawn on a grid
DetailsOne stroke, four letters
Typography page showing the display face and a five-step heading scale
TypographyFive-step scale
Colour palette page with six swatches and their hex values
PaletteSix values
CFC6BB
242E3D
F4F2EA
6B5A53
3A3720
A1A1A3
Selected work — 03
03

philips home access

ForHTN Prime · Philips Home Access
ScopeStand design, wall graphics, invitation
Show8th Tehran Architecture Exhibition

A trade stand is a brand you can walk into, and the rules change: the type has to survive being read from across a hall, and the graphics have to work as architecture. The long wall runs as one unbroken Philips blue, carrying an award timeline from 2018 to 2024; product bays step forward out of it so the locks sit at hand height, and the counter and stools hold the far end open for the conversations that are the point of being there at all.

Exhibition design Environmental graphics Wall system Award timeline Elevation drawing Brand compliance
The Philips stand seen head-on in a darkened exhibition hall, a long blue wall lit from within
Stand interior: product wall, counter and brand lockup under warm light
InteriorProduct wall and counter
Seating area with the Philips shield, framed award certificates and a coffee station
InteriorSeating and awards
The long Philips Home Access wall carrying a timeline of design awards from 2018 to 2024
Timeline wall2018 → 2024
Better safety for you campaign wall with a screen and a row of smart locks below
Campaign wall“Better safety for you”
The stand from an angle, showing its full depth in the hall
Long perspective down the length of the stand
Front elevation of the stand with the reception counter
Side view with the PHILIPS wordmark running vertically down the return wall
Measured elevation drawing of the stand with overall dimensions and a figure for scale
ElevationDrawn to build
Vertical invitation on black: HTN Prime and Philips lockups, Persian body text, a 3D floor plan with booth pins and a QR code
InvitationBooths 59 & 60

An invitation has one job that a poster doesn’t: it has to get someone across a city and into a specific booth.

So the bottom third isn’t decoration — it’s a rendered floor plan with the two stands pinned on it and a QR code beside them. Above that, the type stays out of the way: black ground, one weight of white Persian text, the HTN Prime and Philips lockups given room to be recognised at a glance in a message thread. Set for the 8th Tehran Architecture Exhibition at Milad Tower, booths 59 and 60.

Selected work — 04
04

the photobook

FormatLandscape, perfect bound
ScopeGrid, sequencing, typesetting, repro
PlatesBlack-and-white documentary

A landscape monograph of black-and-white documentary photographs. One grid runs the whole book: plates sit full-bleed, half-bleed or small on white, and the page turn decides which. Chapter openers invert to black so a single frame can carry a spread on its own, and captions stay in one narrow measure at the foot — the same measure, every page, so the reader stops noticing it.

Sequencing One grid Full-bleed plates Black chapter spreads Caption system
Photobook open to a full-bleed landscape photograph across the gutter
Spread with a single small plate on the left and a text column on the right
Two documentary photographs facing each other across the spread
Spread pairing a portrait with a landscape plate
Black chapter spread with a portrait plate and a short text block
Black spread with a photograph of a worker facing a block of set text
Book seen from above, open to two plates with captions beneath

Scroll the strip →

Selected work — 05
05

persian editorial

DirectionRight-to-left
ScopeCovers, features, long-form typesetting
SubjectsFerdowsi · chess · classical literature

Long-form Persian, set to be read rather than looked at. Justified right-to-left columns hold an even colour down the page; a feature on Ferdowsi builds its opening out of the mausoleum's own stone; an essay is illustrated with nothing but chess figures in the margin; covers land in flat institutional colour — pink, purple, green — with the title as the only event on the page.

RTL typesetting Justified columns Cover system Manuscript repro Marginalia Long-form
Open spread: a photograph of the Ferdowsi mausoleum runs across both pages with Persian text set into the stone
FeatureFerdowsi — the opening spread
Spread with a deep blue text page facing a framed portrait of Ferdowsi
FeaturePortrait page, set on blue
Purple cover facing a text page illustrated with a row of chess pieces
EssayIllustrated with chess figures alone
Pink cover with a green leaf mark beside a justified Persian text page
CoversFlat institutional colour
Spread with Persian manuscript miniatures placed in the outer margin
InteriorsManuscript miniatures in the margin
Selected work — 06
06

arya yaragh sanat

ClientArya Yaragh Sanat Company
FormatCompany profile, print
SettingEnglish / فارسی

The document an industrial supplier hands over before a tender — so it has to look like a company that finishes what it starts. The cover carries a line drawing of the building rather than a photograph of it. Inside, a contents page, a red pull quote from the managing director, scanned certificates, an organisational chart and a work-experience list: all the material a procurement officer actually checks, arranged so it can be checked quickly.

Company profile Bilingual setting Org chart Certificate repro Print production
Company profile cover with an architectural line drawing, beside a contents page and a red pull quote
CoverContents and opening quote
Interior spreads showing certificates, an organisational chart and a work experience list
InteriorCertificates, chart, track record
Selected work — 07
07

htn prime — digital

ClientHTN Prime
ScopeLanding pages, site content, social
MarketsEnglish · Turkish · Persian

Ongoing digital content for an architectural hardware brand: landing pages built around one product at a time, dark site sections where a brushed handle can be lit like an object, spec blocks that stay readable next to a rendering, and story-format social that puts two models side by side and lets the difference be the message.

Landing page Product pages Spec layout Story format Localised copy fit
Landing page and spec sheets for the HP1070-300A pivot hinge, shown on a desktop screen beside dark product panels
HP1070-300APivot hinge — landing page and spec sheets
Dark product site on laptop and phone with the headline Timeless Design, Built to Last
Turkish-language product page for a smart lock, shown on laptop and phone
Story-format social post on a phone comparing two smart lock models side by side
Selected work — 08
08

the product catalog

FormatSquare, chaptered
ScopeStructure, layout, spec tables, repro
Chapters01 Smart series → 05 Lockbodies

A square hardware catalog that has to do two jobs at once: sell an interior and list a part number. Each chapter opens on a numbered colour plate, runs through full-bleed installation photography, then hands over to white pages where the products line up as silhouettes with their dimensions. The colour is what tells you where you are in the book.

Chapter system Numbered openers Spec tables Silhouette plates Print-ready
Square catalog fanned open across several spreads, showing numbered colour chapter openers and product pages
01 — 05Chapter openers, interiors and spec pages
Further catalog spreads: chapter 05 Lockbodies and chapter 03 Door Handles beside dark installation photography
Tools — 09

tools

Every day

  • Adobe IllustratorLogotypes, marks, vector artwork
  • Adobe InDesignBooks, catalogs, long-form setting
  • Adobe PhotoshopRetouching, repro, composites
  • Adobe AcrobatPrepress, proofing, handover

Also working in

  • HiggsfieldGenerative image and video
  • PowerPointClient decks and presentations
  • WordDocuments and templates

Learning

  • FigmaInterface and web layout
  • After EffectsMotion for social content
Experience — 10

experience

Practice

2024 →
HTN Prime

Social content; print — catalogs, brochures, company profiles; site content including landing pages; exhibition graphics. Since October 2024.

2021–25
Freelance

Identity, editorial and print in Persian and English. Clients included Mazandaran University and Kumu Furniture.

2022
San'at Yar — internship

March to August 2022. First studio placement, working alongside the design team on production.

ATP Gallery — Munich

Gallery design work.

Education

2020–24
Sooreh University

BA, Graphics. Four years in Tehran, graduating in 2024.

Now
Two years in practice

Working across exhibition identity, brand and logotype, books and Persian editorial, catalogs and company profiles, trade stands, and the digital content around them.

Contact — 11

let's make
something printed

Open to studio work, freelance commissions and collaborations — in Persian or English, on paper or on screen.