“Everything’s ok in the end. If it’s not ok, then it’s not the end.”
Bio:
Born in Lebanon in 1981, Marie-Joe Raidy completes her bachelor degree in graphic design with a minor in business at the American University of Beirut in June 2005. Marie-Joe has long been an active member of human right issues in Lebanon. In 2004, she receives her first award, the AUB Short Animation of the Year (LB). In 2005, she is given an award for a UNPD Short Animation competition (LB). In 2006, she is granted a honorary mention in Linotype’s Arabic Type Design Competition (DE) and her logo designs get published in “The Secret Life of Logos”, a publication by HOW Design Books (US).
Marie-Joe is currently managing the Design Department of Raidy Printing Group S.A.L., in Beirut, Lebanon.
Statement:
I cannot think of one citation that would describe my work or person. Like my shirts, my “quote of the month” keeps changing (thankfully my shirts change faster). However, one sarcastic sentence I like to use every so often is “betsyr bi ah7san el 3iyal” (it happens with the finest families). Unlike my statements that keep developing, this cynicism has long been present. I guess it is harder to change society’s prejudices than one’s own progress. But art and the visual language always seem to be a very first step towards change. In “Memories of Ras Beirut”, Dr Samir Khalaf says, “if you want to know how a society is evolving, look at its current art wave”. Generalization, denial and discrimination are usually driven out of ignorance and fear. Visual communication is a more sensitive, humane and accepted way of educating the world with what life is really about. It is the Foreword of what is about to be in the future generation’s book, an Avant-Garde of its upcoming mind. "The greatest failure is the failure to try". Hence, this event.
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