Omar is a creative consultant
& design director
Omar utilises insight to form ideas that solve problems. He works with new and established companies to create brands and content with purpose, balanced with beautifully crafted design.
He’s an award-winning creative director, design leader, lecturer, design consultant and business founder. He prides himself on his ability to solve problems utilising design thinking inspired by everyday observations, insight, and human behaviour.
He’s a sucker for visualised data, emotionally stimulating marketing and babies. Yes, the crying sort.
Omar has worked in design and advertising for over 15 years. During this time, he’s had the opportunity to work across an array of industries. He’s had inspiring mentors such as the late Ian Nobel, a world renown design educator, shared his experiences and taught on many occasions at master’s level at a handful of London universities and worked with global brands such as Virgin Media, O2, BP, Disney, Universal, Etihad, Oracle, LinkedIn to name a few.
In 2019 Omar co-found a company called SPCE. A student focused letting platform with over 25 thousand students across the UK at its peak. Omar was instrumental in its early growth. His market analysis and product design and development drove SPCE through multiple rounds of successful funding, building a market disrupting product.
As a result, SPCE was Invited on to the Techstars incubator program in Toronto, on stage at Web Summit in Portugal and was awarded a Semi-Finalist prize at the UK WeWork Creator Awards 2019.
Over the last 5 years, Omar has taken his experiences in brand, design, marketing and mentoring to direct the creative output from Virgin Media O2 Business as the Creative Director. Working closely with the Copy Director, his role has been focused on creating ideas and concepts for the brand’s marketing campaigns. His team have gone on to win a gold award at the B2B Marketing Awards 2022 and nominated in an array of categories, as well as being a finalist in the B2B Drum Awards two years running whilst Leading the design team.