email: hello@youssef.works
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I am a product / industrial designer based in Beirut, Lebanon, and a graduate of ECAL in Switzerland.
My approach is drawn from my observations of contextual realities (manufacturing, cultural, societal, archetypical…) because I strive for my projects to embody a sense of self-evidence through their form and materiality.
To me, essentiality should not be an aesthetical pursuit, but rather a tool for efficiency and narrative clarity. I aim for this approach to carry through the entirety of my practice –in artisanal, industrial, spatial, curatorial, and academic endeavours.
– Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) – 2019
MA in Product design
– École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) – 2024
– Dubai Design Week – 2021
Etat de Siège
– Galerie Tanit – 2022
Moments of Strength
– Downtown Design, Dubai – 2022
Beirut. The Eras of Design
– MUDAC, Lausanne – 2023
Creative Liaisons
– Life Lebanon UK – 2023
Under Design Lebanon
– Fuorisalone, Milan – 2023
ÉCAL x Horgenglarus x senior-lab
– Design Days Lausanne – 2024
We Will Survive
– MUDAC, Lausanne – 2024
Design ‘in’ Conflict
– We Design Beirut, Beirut – 2025
(with Exil Collective)
– Architectural Digest Middle-East – 2021
AD50 Honorees
(with Exil Collective)
– Architectural Digest Middle-East – 2022
Last Updated August 2025
écal + PB Swiss Tools (2022)
PB2223 - Creator is a compact and multifuntional pen meant to complement PB Swiss Tool’s extensive catalog of high-end tools. An easily pocketable tracing device, it benefits from the company’s signature magazine storage system to provide access to three precision bits on the go.
With Augustin Scott de Martinville (Big Game).