Aligning with our last contributor’s wish to prompt creative action, designer Shamma Buhazza’s approach tests the abilities of graphic design to create space.Thread of Inspiration is a series in partnership with Pinterest which explores how inspiration can come from unexpected places. Throughout the year we’ll be inviting a host of creatives to create amazing artworks, and sharing the intriguing stories behind how they come up with new ideas. Every other month a new creative will be introduced, tasked with creating new works inspired by the artist who came before them in the chain.
In the final edition of our year-long project Thread of Inspiration, Abu Dhabi-based graphic designer Shamma Buhazza has unexpectedly managed to push and pull Pinterest into a new resource for creatives, working towards the concept of decolonising her graphic design mind.
A project which demonstrates the power an individual holds to utilise tools around them to question and learn, Shamma’s final project developed from a series of questions the designer posed, such as: “How can I create moments of ‘silence’ and ‘noise’ using a platform like Pinterest?” through to “How can I physically and literally ‘take up space’ and tell a story using a board/platform like Pinterest?”
Shamma’s entry point to the project was through the work of our last contributor, French illustrator Aurélia Durand. While holding a very different style to Shamma’s practice, “her passion for change is aligned,” the designer tells us, while recalling those early moments of the project’s growth. Inspired by Aurélia’s wish to creatively prompt action, “I decided to take a more conceptual approach,” says Shamma, aiming to create a series of typographically-led signs, “perhaps ones the characters might use at the protest [Aurélia] depicted in her illustrations to tell a story of a conscious world.”
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