Nancy Kouta is a Beirut-based surreal abstract graphic designer and illustrator represented by Agency Rush. Her practice spans textile design, editorial illustration, visual identity, greeting cards, and surface pattern, with a client list that includes international brands and publications.
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Nancy Kouta is a Beirut-based surreal abstract graphic designer and illustrator represented by Agency Rush. Her practice spans textile design, editorial illustration, visual identity, greeting cards, and surface pattern, with a client list that includes international brands and publications. She has received recognition from Fresh 19 (Silver, Graphic Design) and twice been shortlisted for the Bridgeman Studio Award (2018, 2019).
Surreal abstraction - intricate layering, vivid colour palettes, and compositions that blend dreamlike imagery with decorative pattern. The portfolio features dense illustrative surface patterns with a strong graphic sensibility, drawing on organic forms, symbolic motifs, and rich tonal contrast. The visual language is immediately distinctive, combining fine art references with commercially confident execution.
Digital illustration with a highly detailed, layered approach. Typography listed as a skill. Practice spans print, product, textile, and digital outputs - confirmed by the range of documented client work across publishing, brand licensing, wrapped goods, and greeting cards.
Documented clients include Lush (2025 Knot Wrap), Pet Barn (greeting cards and calendar, 2024 and 2025), McDonald x Mastercard (campaign), Virago Modern Classics (Penguin imprint, book covers), Transform Magazin.de, Fern Artistry (visual identity, textiles, calendar, Valentine's Day card), Agency Rush (reading poster), Seanos (visual identity), ThymeScape (visual identity), and Ramadan Kit 2025. Represented for freelance inquiries by Agency Rush. Published in DesignIdeas, JaamZin, PeopleofPrint, Etapes, and GirlsClub.asia.
Based in Beirut, Lebanon. Awards and press recognition date from 2018, establishing a professional commercial practice with international reach. Represented by Agency Rush for freelance commissions. Work has appeared in design publications across the UK, France, South Korea, and Australia.
The portfolio features bold abstract and botanical surface patterns - dense, layered compositions with a surrealist graphic edge. Textile design for Fern Artistry is documented as a named project, confirming direct commercial surface pattern work. The Lush Knot Wrap placement confirms pattern output applied to a commercial wrapped goods product.
Nancy Kouta is a Beirut-based surreal abstract graphic designer and illustrator represented by Agency Rush. Her practice spans textile design, editorial illustration, visual identity, greeting cards, and surface pattern, with a client list that includes international brands and publications.
Style and Aesthetic Surreal abstraction - intricate layering, vivid colour palettes, and compositions that blend dreamlike imagery with decorative pattern. The portfolio features dense illustrative surface patterns with a strong graphic sensibility, drawing on organic forms, symbolic motifs, and rich tonal contrast.
Pattern Focus The portfolio features bold abstract and botanical surface patterns - dense, layered compositions with a surrealist graphic edge. Textile design for Fern Artistry is documented as a named project, confirming direct commercial surface pattern work.
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Techniques and Tools Digital illustration with a highly detailed, layered approach. Typography listed as a skill. Practice spans print, product, textile, and digital outputs - confirmed by the range of documented client work across publishing, brand licensing, wrapped goods, and greeting cards.
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Career Path Based in Beirut, Lebanon. Awards and press recognition date from 2018, establishing a professional commercial practice with international reach. Represented by Agency Rush for freelance commissions. Work has appeared in design publications across the UK, France, South Korea, and Australia.
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