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Omar Mohammad

عمر محمد Omar Mohammad founded CAMEL in 2024. He has taught design at the California College of the Arts and at UC Davis. He has designed independently, at cultural institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and at large corporations in the Bay Area. His work and experience spans product, brand, web, and the built environment. He has exhibited, lectured, and presented work around the world, recently at school in Vienna, whatreallymatters in Seoul, and the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. His work and writings have been published by It’s Nice That, Are.na, and UC Davis. He is a recent graduate of the Master of Design program at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design & College of Enegineering where he was an Arcus Fellow and an American Cultures Engaged Scholar. He received his BA in Design from UC Davis.

CAMEL

A design and research practice that embeds buildings, drawings, objects, and software with culture: c-a-m-e-l.org

Networks

omarmhmmd@berkeley.edu
instagram.com/omarmhmmd1
are.na/omar-mhmmd

Education

[2025]
Master of Design (MDes)
UC Berkeley
College of Environmental Design & College of Engineering

[2018]
BA Design
UC Davis
College of Letters and Science

Public

[Jun 2026][info]
Virtual Lecture
Re-Reading Afghanistan: University of Arts Bremen
Invited by Professor Fahim Amir
Bremen, Germany

[Jan 2025]
Keynote Lecture
UC Davis Global Game Jam
Invited by Professor Patrick LeMieux
Davis, CA

[Sep 2024][watch]
Panelist at Day of Translation
Typography and Translation
Center for Fiction and Center for the Art of Translation
Brooklyn, New York

Exhibitions

[May 2026][info]
Dar Bayn: Nothing Remains Unchanged
Toronto, Canada

[Nov 2024] [info]
Between Worlds: Technology, Spirit & The Digital South
Vienna, Austria

[May 2023] [info]
Unrealized Archive 7: Text to Image at WRM
Seoul, South Korea

[Nov 2018] [info]
Washer / Dryer Projects
100 Sketches of 100 Buildings
Salt Lake City, Utah

Publications

[May 2026][read]
Room One Thousand: Graduate Architectural Journal
UC Berkeley
Editor of Small Moments of Anarchy by Leopold Banchini & Omar Mohammad and A Longer Coast by Ali Karimi, Civil Architecture

[Dec 2025][read]
Book Review: Place, Meaning, and Form in the Architecture and Urban Structure of Islamic Cities (2003) by Afghan architect Bashir Kazimee and Ayad Rahimi
SAE Newsletter — December 2025, Volume 16, Issue 4, Jadi 1404

[Dec 2020][read]
Tools for Cultural Production: Archiving Voice, Culture, and Community
Are.na

[Jun 2018][read]
The American Mosque: What, How, and Where to Build
UC Davis

Features

[Apr 2023][read]
Omar Mohammad revives Afghan culture through design and typography
Itsnicethat

Awards

[Jun 2025][info]
Student Honorable Mention
SF Design Week

[Jan 2025][info]
American Cultures Engaged Scholarship
UC Berkeley American Cultures Center & Public Service Center

[Dec 2024][info]
Graduate Certificate in New Media
UC Berkeley Center for New Media

[Aug 2024][info]
Arcus Social Justice Corps Fellowship
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Teaching

[Jun 2026]
Guest Lecturer
GRAPH-3680-2: Advanced Design Studio: Communication + Translation
California College of the Arts
Invited by Professor Sara Raffo

[Spring 2026]
Lecturer
DES 144 History of Interior Architecture
UC Davis

[Sep 2025]
Guest Lecture
College Writing R4B: Water and Anarchism: Tapping Possibilities
Invited by Professor John Fielding
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

[Spring 2025]
Graduate Student Instructor
ASAMST 132AC Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness
UC Berkeley

[Apr 2025]
Guest Lecture
ART 315 Digital Media Design
Invited by Professor Brian Bartz
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

[Mar 2025]
Guest Lecture
Invited by Professor Chris Hamamoto
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea

[Fall 2024]
Graduate Student Instructor
ASAMST 128AC Muslims in America
UC Berkeley

[Spring 2024][output]
Adjunct Professor I
DESGN 6940-3 Thesis Exhibition: Digital Space
California College of the Arts

[Spring 2024][output]
Adjunct Professor I
DESGN 6132-1 Interactive Media
California College of the Arts

[Fall 2023][output]
Adjunct Professor I
DESGN 6630-4 Topic Studio: Web to Print
California College of the Arts

[Spring 2023][output]
Adjunct Professor I
DESGN 6940-3 Thesis Exhibition: Digital Space
California College of the Arts

[Fall 2022][output]
Adjunct Professor I
DESGN 6630-4 Topic Studio: Web to Print
California College of the Arts

[Feb 2022]
Guest Lecture
DES 40C Design Aesthetics & Experience
Invited by Dr. James Housefield
UC Davis Davis, CA

[Spring 2021]
Critic
DES 115 Letterforms and Typography at UC Davis
Invited by Brett Snyder
Remote / Davis, CA

[Dec 2020]
Guest Lecturer & Critic
DES 3090 Interactive and Experience Design at SUNY Purchase
Invited by Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab
Remote / Purchase, NY

[Feb 2020]
How to Design an Exhibition
Curatorial Research Bureau
Invited by Chris Hamamoto
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

[Jan 2019]
Critic
Exhibition Design at CCA
Invited by Chris Hamamoto
San Francisco, CA