Amar [amo] Salim
Art Director + Photographer
A multidisciplinary creative — who has worked across MENA & Europe — Currently based in Berlin.
Available for work.
About me.
I’m Amar. 27.
Miami Ad School graduate.
I live by a single belief: Never get comfortable.
The life I live is one my parents couldn’t have imagined. That’s the standard I carry into everything I make.
FUCKING GOOD WORK.
OR NOTHING.
Experience.
Junior Art Director
PRESENCE GmbH
10/2025 - 11/2025
A boutique agency led by an experienced team and established founders. Working directly with the creative director, I brainstormed, conceptualised and pitched for Mattel and WWF. It taught me to look harder for insights and trust honest observations.
Junior Art Director
MOTOR Kommunikation GmbH
07/2025 - 09/2025
My first experience inside a medium-sized agency, collaborating across the full team, from creative directors and copywriters to animators, art directors and account directors. I worked primarily across Wolt, VfL Wolfsburg and Netflix DE, from idea development to OOH and TV show poster campaigns.
Junior Art Director
Potvis GmbH
04/2025 - 06/2025
A two-person agency run by its founders. I worked closely with them on proactive and pitch work, while helping shape the branding and world-building for their upcoming restructure and new agency identity, M!STAKE Creative Studio.
Junior Art Director
LePub | Part of Publicis Group
01/2025 - 03/2025
An intense, high-impact idea-generating machine that completely changed how I looked at advertising. My creative partner and I worked across proactive ideas and live briefs for Philips, Heineken and Barilla, while collaborating with the Milan team on The Flipper, which went on to win Bronze at Cannes Lions and Eurobest.
Graphic Designer
Havas Middle East
2021 - 2023
My first agency experience, where I spent almost three years as a Graphic Designer and Content Creator. I worked across automotive, real estate, banking, oil & gas, water and lifestyle, building a broad visual foundation across graphic design, motion design, photography and video.
Education.
Art Direction Portfolio School
Miami Ad School
2023 - 2025
PG Diploma. Commercial Photography
Light & Life Academy
2020 - 2021
Bachelor of Design. Visual Communication
Symbiosis International University
2016 - 2020
Awards.
Testimonials.
Toufic Tawilee
Creative Director, Havas Middle East
"Amar has a strong eye for design and film. From the get-go, Amar hit the ground running when it came to taking new challenges, unafraid to experiment and push his own limits"
Natalie Dennis
Group Creative Lead, Google Creative Lab
“This year's All-Stars showed incredible craft, hustle, and heart, The speed at which they came together from around the world, fusing their unique creative perspectives to tackle our Gemini brief, resulted in a showcase that was both insightful and a total joy to watch.”
Andreas Hoff
Creative Director, LePub Amsterdam
"Amar is very good at receiving feedback on ideas, and investigates what can make the idea better. He also has good craft as an art director."
Sudhanva Atri
Mentor, Filmmaker & Photographer
"There are few people in this batch that gave me food for thought and you are at the top my friend. Thank you for trusting me from the start and validating that my idiocracies were okay on most days and not on some. Your mirror to me was kind and your insights were often cherished. I believe you will find your niche in the vast ocean that is visual storytelling and I can't wait to watch your first film. Wish you all the very best my brother. Don't be a stranger."
