Muhammad Shareef

Muhammad Hani Shareef is an industrial and furniture designer from Jerusalem, where he was raised. He holds a B.Des from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and is studying there for an M.Des, while working as manager and designer in his family business and as a teaching and research assistant at Birzeit University.

His projects start from local material culture. Zeer takes the traditional Palestinian clay pot and its cooling technology as the basis for a vessel assembled from a rectangle and a ball, so that it can be rolled in any direction while showing where the airflow comes from; a stool pairs cast aluminium with wood so the two materials lock together; Pargo was developed for a Bezalel student market. Sketches and prototypes are documented step by step on his site.