Walid Bouchouchi

Akakir Studio is a visual arts and graphic design practice founded by Walid Bouchouchi in 2016. The Studio's philosophy aims at building bridges between cultures through imagining and developing vibrant visual languages.

Since graduating from the Algiers' École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Walid has continuously advocated the values of a universalist design to support and nurture a genuinely multicultural dialogue. His personal artistic work focuses on designing multilingual alphabets and fonts, often merging Arabic, Amazigh and Latin scripts.

The practice develops a contemporary vision of graphic design. At the heart of the approach is a need to create an authentic narrative — a visual identity stripped of folklorism and rooted in the factual truth of the cultural context of each project.

The Studio is based between Marseille, Paris and Algiers, incidentally bridging both banks of the Mediterranean. Its clients' list range from cultural institutions, museums and international festivals to independent artists or magazines — all willing to build and improve similar bridges.