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Masoud Morgan is a graphic designer and art director from Iran, currently based in Berlin. Since 2008, he has worked with cultural institutions and commercial clients, developing visual identities and design concepts across print, digital, motion, and interactive media. With a strong focus on typography, his practice combines conceptual thinking with an experimental and refined visual approach.
His works have been presented in several national and international exhibitions, and some are now part of the permanent collections of art and design museums in Paris, Switzerland, Germany, and Iran.
As a visual artist, his practice explores the sensory dimensions of typography and the relationship between language, form, and the human body. Working across Persian, Arabic, and Latin scripts, he investigates how letters move beyond their function as carriers of information to become visual and spatial experiences. His work questions conventional structures of writing and reading, exploring the boundaries between legibility and abstraction, recognition and interpretation.
In 2025, he was awarded the Research Grant in Fine Arts by the Berlin Senate. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Visual Communication, followed by the Meisterschüler program (postgraduate studies) under Prof. Gabi Schillig at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Permanent Collections
Grants & Awards
2022
2016
2015
2015
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Iranian Museum of Graphic Design
Zürich (CH)
Paris (FR)
Hamburg (DE)
Tehran (IR)
2025
2025
Research Grant in Fine Arts 2025 (Berlin Senate), Germany
Nominated for the German Design Award
Exhibitions
2024
2025
2025
2023
2021
2021
2020
2018
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Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße
Kunsthafen
Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Toyama Museum of Art and Design
A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts
Typomania International Festival
Fully Booked Dubai Art Book Fair
Designtransfer Gallery
Havuz Art Gallery
Endicott College
Museum of Decorative Arts
48 Stunden Neukölln Art Festival
Mohsen Art Gallery
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Hinterland Gallery
Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery
Lebanese American University
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Spanish American Culture Center
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Iranian Museum of Graphic Arts
International Fountain Pavilion
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Tournai Kulturhaus
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
International Poster Biennial
Golden Bee Biennale
Bethanien Art Center
Exhibition of Persian Logotypes
Cartacanta Festival-Expo
Ilia State University
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Multiple Exhibition Venues
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Iranian Academy of Arts
House of Culture of Iranian Artists
Berlin (DE)
Cologne (DE)
Berlin (DE)
Zürich (CH)
Toyama (JP)
Almaty (KZ)
Moscow (RU)
Dubai (UAE)
Berlin (DE)
Istanbul (TR)
Massachusetts (US)
Paris (FR)
Berlin (DE)
Tehran (IR)
Tehran (IR)
Vienna (AT)
Keene (US)
Beirut (LB)
Tehran (IR)
Havana (CU)
Tehran (IR)
Tehran (IR)
Seattle (US)
Tehran (IR)
Tournai (BE)
Tehran (IR)
Hangzhou (CN)
Moscow (RU)
Berlin (DE)
Novosibirsk (RU)
Italy (IT)
Tbilisi (GE)
Tehran (IR)
Various Cities (IR)
Tehran (IR)
Tehran (IR)
Tehran (IR)
Dar in Miyāne: Solo Exhibition
Schriftbilder: Contemporary Iranian Graphic Design
Touching the Unknown
Visual Poetry: Contemporary Posters from Iran
IPT2021: 13th International Poster Triennale
Sense of Rhythm: Poster Exhibition
Persian Sign and Seal: 100 Logotypes + 20 Classics
Huroof: Graphic Design from the Middle East
Fold/Unfold: Vorspiel transmediale
The Heirs: Contemporary Typographic Posters from Iran
The Seattle Havana Tehran: Poster Show
AZAD: Collaborative Design Project at Graphic Design Festival
Light–Shadow–Modulators: Exhibition of Kinetic Objects
Metamorphopolis: Collaborative Design Project
Picture of the Year Festival
AZAD: Posters from the Collaborative Design Project
The Seattle Havana Tehran: Poster Show
AZAD: Graphic Design Project Presentation
Picture of the Year Festival
The Seattle Havana Tehran: Poster Show
Silver Cypress: Fourth National Graphic Design Biennial
In the Beginning Was the Word: Typographic Poster Exhibition
The Seattle Havana Tehran: Poster Show
Minus 30: Posters of a New Generation of Iranian Designers
Far Up Close: Posters of Iranian Graphic Artists
Picture of the Year Festival
Sixth Biennial Poster Exhibition of China
Golden Bee: 10th International Graphic Design Biennale
Right-to-Left: Iranian and Arabic Visual Culture
100 Persian Logotypes
32 Years of Graphic Group show
Didar: Graphic Design Exhibition
Picture of the Year Festival
Divarkub: Young Generation of Iranian Graphic Artists
Picture of the Year Festival
Third International Biennial: Graphic in the Muslim World
Picture of the Year Festival
Publications
2025
2024
2023
2019
2017
2015
2014
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2012
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2011
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2008
SLEEK Magazine
Niggli Verlag
Lars Müller Publishers
It's Nice That
StudioKargah / Mohsen Art Gallery
Karbeh Publishing House
Mirdashti Publishing House
Aban Verlag
Not specified
Not specified
Tassvir
Not specified
Tassvir
Gestalten Verlag
Neshan Magazine
Tassvir
Aban Verlag
Tassvir
Not specified
Tassvir
Tassvir
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Russia
Iran
Germany
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
Iran
CHANGE
Multi–Script Design and Typography
Contemporary Iran: Poster Collection
Creating a Sense of Destruction and Suspense in 3D Typography
Collaborative Design Project for Contemporary Urban Identity
Fourth National Graphic Design Biennial
Selected Iranian Book Cover Designs (1978–2013)
Posters of a New Generation of Iranian Graphic Artists
Posters of Iranian Graphic Artists
Selected Works of the 1st Festival of the National Flag
Journal of Visual Arts
10th International Graphic Design Biennale
Journal of Visual Arts
Graphic Design from the Middle East
Iranian Graphic Design
Journal of Visual Arts
Posters of Iranian Graphic Designers
Journal of Visual Arts
Third International Biennial: Graphics in the Muslim World
Journal of Visual Arts
Journal of Visual Arts
Masoud Morgan is a designer and visual artist from Iran, currently based in Berlin.
Since 2008, he has been working as a graphic designer in the art and culture sector. His works have been presented in several national and international exhibitions, and some are now part of the permanent collections of art and design museums in Paris, Switzerland, Germany, and Iran.
He completed his Meisterschüler program (postgraduate studies) under Prof. Schillig at the Berlin University of the Arts.
More about his works at It's Nice That
Masoud Morgan on creating a sense of destruction and suspense in 3D typography
Permanent Collections
Grants & Awards
Solo Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Schriftbilder; Contemporary Iranian Graphic Design, Kunsthafen, Cologne, Germany, 2025 ⋅ Touching the Unknown; Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany, 2025 ⋅ (Solo Exhibition) Dar in Miyāne, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, Germany, 2024 ⋅ Visual Poetry; Contemporary Posters from Iran, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland, 2023 ⋅ Sense of Rhythm; Poster Exhibition at A. Kasteyev Museum of Arts in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2021 ⋅ IPT2021; 13th International Poster Triennale at the Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan, 2021 ⋅ Persian Sign and Seal; 100 Logotypes + 20 Classics, Typomania, Moscow, Russia, 2020 ⋅ Moscow International Festival, Russia, 2020 ⋅ Huroof; Group exhibition of graphic design from the Middle East: Explorations in Contemporary Typography, Fully Booked Dubai Art Book Fair, Dubai, UAE, 2018 ⋅ The Heirs; Group exhibition of contemporary typographic based posters from Iran, Havuz art gallery - bina kadıköy Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 ⋅ Fold/ Unfold; Group exhibition in the context of Vorspiel transmediale, Designtransfer gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2018 ⋅ The Seattle Havana Tehran; Poster Show at Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, 2018 ⋅ Light-Shadow-Modulators; Group exhibition of kinetic objects, 48 Stunden Neuköln art festival, Berlin, Germany, 2017 ⋅ AZAD Collaborative Design Project at the Graphic Design Festival Paris, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France, 2017 ⋅ Metamorphopolis; A collaborative design project for the contemporary urban identity of StudioKargah in the Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2017 ⋅ Festival "Picture of the Year" at the House of Culture of Iranian Artists, Tehran, Iran, 2017 ⋅ The Seattle Havana Tehran; Poster Show in the Northeast at Keene College’s Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, New Hampshire, USA, 2016 ⋅ AZAD; Posters from the Collaborative Design Project of the Azad Art Gallery in The Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2016 ⋅ Presentation of the graphic project of Azad Art Gallery in the Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, 2016 ⋅ Festival "Picture of the Year" at the House of Culture of Iranian Artists in Tehran, Iran, 2016 ⋅ The Seattle Havana Tehran; Poster Show at the Spanish American Culture Center, Havana, Cuba, 2016 ⋅ Silver Cypress; Participation in the fourth biennial Graphic design exhibition in the culture house of Iranian artist, Tehran, Iran, 2015 ⋅ In the beginning was the word; typographic poster exhibition in Iranian Museum of Graphic Arts, Tehran, Iran, 2015 ⋅ The Seattle Havana Tehran; Poster Show at the International Fountain Pavilion, Seattle Center, USA, 2015 ⋅ Minus 30; Posters of new generation of Iranian graphic artists in the graphic week of Tehran in the House of Culture of Iranian Artists, Tehran, Iran, 2014 ⋅ Far up close; Posters of Iranian graphic artists in Tournai Kulturhaus, Belgium, 2014 ⋅ Festival of the "Picture of the Year" at the House of Culture of Iranian Artists in Tehran, Iran, 2014 ⋅ Sixth biennial poster exhibition of China in Hangzhou, China, 2013 ⋅ Golden Bee; tenth international biennial graphic design exhibition in Moscow, Russia, 2012 ⋅ Right-to-Left; Iranian and Arabic visual culture, Bethanian Art Center, Berlin, Germany, 2012 ⋅ 100 Persian logo types, exhibition in Novosibirsk, Russia, 2011 ⋅ The 1980-2010 Reza Abedini selected Iranian Book cover designs, Cartacanta exhibition, Italy, 2011 ⋅ Didar; Graphic design exhibition of the Vijes School of Graphics and Communications at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2011 ⋅ Festival of the "Picture of the Year" at the House of Culture of Iranian Artists in Tehran, Iran, 2011 ⋅ Divarkub; Exhibition of the young generation of Iranian graphic artists, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran, Semnan, Mashhad, Iran, 2010 ⋅ Festival of the "Picture of the Year" at the House of Culture of Iranian Artists in Tehran, Iran, 2010 ⋅ Third International Biennial Exhibition "Graphic in the Muslim World "at the Iranian Academy of Arts in Tehran, Iran ⋅ Festival of the "Picture of the Year" at the House of Culture of Iranian Artists in Tehran, Iran, 2009
Publication
SLEEK Magazine Issue 84: CHANGE , Germany, 2025 ⋅ Bi–Scriptual: Multi–Script Design and Typography, Niggli Verlag, Germany, 2024 ⋅ Contemporary Iran; Poster Collection, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Lars Müller Publishers, Switzerland, 2023 ⋅ it's nice that; Masoud Morgan on creating a sense of destruction and suspense in 3D typography, 2019 ⋅ Metamorphopolis; Book of the collaborative design project for contemporary urban identity by StudioKargah and Mohsen Art Gallery, Iran, 2017 ⋅ Silver Cypress; Book of the Fourth National Biennial Graphic design exhibition, Karbeh publishing house for contemporary art, Iran, 2015 ⋅ Vitrin; Book of selected Iranian book cover designs from the last 35 years 1978-2013, Mirdashti publishing house, Iran, 2014 ⋅ Minus 30; Book of posters of the new generation of Iranian graphic artists, Aban Verlag, Iran, 2014 ⋅ Far up close; Book of posters of Iranian graphic artists, Iran, 2014 ⋅ Book of selected pictures, posters and paintings of the 1st Festival of the National Flag, Iran, 2013 ⋅ Book of the 6th biennial poster exhibition of China, 2013 ⋅ Tassvir; Journal of Visual Arts, Iran, 2012 ⋅ Golden Bee; Book of the tenth international biennial Graphic exhibition in Moscow, Russia, 2013 ⋅ Tassvir; Journal of Visual Arts, Iran, 2012 ⋅ Arabesque 2; Book of the Graphic in the Middle East, Gestalten Verlag, Germany, 2011 ⋅ Tassvir; Journal of Visual Arts, Iran, 2011 ⋅ Neshan; Iranian Graphic Design Magazine, Iran, 2011 ⋅ Divarkub; Book of the posters of iranian graphic designers, Aban Verlag, Iran, 2010 ⋅ Tassvir; Journal of Visual Arts, Iran, 2010 ⋅ Book of the third international biennial exhibition "Graphics in the Muslim World", Iran, 2009 ⋅ Tassvir; Journal of Visual Arts, Iran, 2009 ⋅ Tassvir; Journal of Visual Arts, Iran, 2008
© 2011 Masoud Morgan