A graphic designer and calligraphist, Rana Riaz Ahmad, has
lived a rich life, enjoying his creativity and passion to travel.
He is a witness to many phases of street life of the Walled
City of Lahore, from peaceful Choona Mandi Chowk of the 1950s where people
would freely sleep in the streets during hot summer, to the present-day chaos
of the metropolis where it has become hard for a pedestrian to cross a road.
He would spend time with the Eid card designers of Shah Alam
Market and copy the paintings of Picasso.
His career started with an assignment of making
illustrations for five rupees per piece, spanning over more than five decades.
During that period, he worked in the USA, Europe, Middle East and for leading
advertising agencies and publishing houses of Pakistan.
He is one of the founder members of Pakistan
Calligraph-Artists Guild, formed in 1997.
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