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P r o f i l e  :      A genius like an imprint of the time

A journalist, a poet, a calligraphic artist, a cartoonist, a short-story writer… adjectives galore for Khaleelullah Chemnad. This multi-talented personality, who has marked his own imprint in all the fields he has attempted, has received recognition everywhere. As the life of his father, who was a famous poet and writer, was left before him like an open book, Khaleel did not take much time to find his own way. However, his was a new path, which was a synchronization of writing and drawing. Literature was so dear to this talented personality from childhood when he used to carry works of famous literary personalities along with his school books. He had started publishing stories, poems and cartoons in children's magazines at a tender age.
Today, Khaleel is a famous Arabic calligraphic artist and perhaps the only one in the world who has specialized in anatomic calligraphy, which is the unique feature of this artist.
Young Khaleel got inspiration to choose calligraphy as his field seeing the artistic beauty of the letters in the Arabic magazines, which used to come to his father's address from UAE, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Even though Khaleel was not proficient in Arabic language, his calligraphic works became inevitable for the regional publications in India due to its sheer quality and beauty. Since 1987, when he was only 15, Khaleel started drawing calligraphic pictures for two publications in Kerala. His unique talent in calligraphy got noticed very quickly, especially because he was a non-Arab, a specialty, which enhanced the significance of his works.
Khaleel started his calligraphic works by drawing verses from the Holy Quran as pictures that carry its meaning. Later, many of organizations in Kerala started using his works for Islamic preaching. Khaleel started getting many awards and laurels. During one of the exhibitions in Kerala, Sheikh Nadir Noori asked for Khaleel's calligraphy work, which was a drawing of the holy word La Ilaha Illallah in the shape of a lamp. Khaleel considers this as the biggest recognition and award at a young age. He handed over his work to Sheikh Nadir during the exhibition itself. Khaleel's works were exhibited in many exhibitions in India and abroad at that time itself.
Khaleel has in his kitty 15 awards for art and literature including the Kerala Cartoon Academy Award, which he won at a very young age, World Health Organization Award, Thoolika Award, Malayattoor Award, MP Narayana Pillai Award and Anti-Narcotic Movement Award.
Khaleel's search for a job landed him in one of the Malayalam Radio stations in Dubai 14 years ago. During the initial years in Dubai, he was very active in the media as part of his job. However, his hectic professional life compelled him to keep literature and art aside. But, today Khaleel has become active in the field of calligraphy once again.
Now, Khaleel has to his credit more than 1000 calligraphic works and calligraphic logos. However, his master piece was the drawing of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder president of the UAE. Khaleel drew this picture of Sheikh Zayed 13 years ago only by using his name in Arabic. Since then, he drew pictures of many rulers and poets in the UAE using anatomic calligraphy method. Famous among them is the drawing of poet Sheikh Mana Al Otaiba using two lines of his poem in Arabic. Khaleel may be the only artist in the world to use Arabic calligraphy to draw portraits.
"Till now, I haven't seen anybody who uses anatomic calligraphy and for the last 15 years I continue to follow this style, which I acquired myself," he said.
Khaleel is currently busy with his project, an exhibition of his works on Dubai. He has drawn 100 calligraphic works using the name Dubai in Arabic. Each of these wonderful works is uniquely different from others. He has also completed a similar project on Abu Dhabi and Al Emarat and is currently busy doing another one on Sharjah. Khaleel is also drawing more than 100 pictures of some of the rulers in the UAE.
Khaleel, who creates wonders with Arabic letters through his calligraphic works, has today established himself as a different artist in the field of Arabic calligraphy and has acquired the recognition of Arab people at large.
"I believe that my best calligraphy is yet to be drawn. It is my dream project. It could be a great work of anatomic calligraphy and it may even open the doors of the Guinness Book of World Records in front of me," says Khaleel.
 

Khaleel in Media

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Many articles and interviews were published in Malayalam, English and Arabic about the artistic and literary talents of Khaleelullah Chemnad at a very young age. Khaleel, who has won a number of literary awards, is also famous as a young writer & Artist.Now Khaleel started getting noticed as a full time calligraphist. News and interviews about Khaleel's artistic and literary contributions published by the media is attached below.  » ALL MEDIA PAGE HERE »

Career Objectives:

Seeking a senior appointment is a professional and challenging work environment within the graphic field of Advertising/Publishing Industry where i can use my skill to the maximum.

Educational Qualifications:

B.A. (History) : Calicut University, India.

Professional Qualifications:

Graphic Arts Draughtsman (1993) MRB Computers, Dubai - UAE.
Graphic Designer (MAC) (1994) Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress from MRB Dxb.
Adobe Training Certificate from Gulf Training Centre (GTC)
Photoshop & Illustrator (30-7-2001 to 17-8-2001)

Computer Skills:

Khaleel's Calligraphy

Graphic Softwares: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, DreamWeaver, FrontPage HTML, InDesign, Freehand, Pagemil, Steamline, Flash, Swish, Corel Draw

Khaleelullah Chemnad, who fell in love with Arabic letters at a very young age and identified their beauty through drawing pictures with them by treading a new path in the world of calligraphic concepts, is a known face in the world of calligraphy today. He may be the only artist in the world, who uses 'Anatomic Calligraphy' a style he has acquired himself through hard work.

Other Skills:

Calligraphy (Anatomy Calligrapher) I am the only Anatomic Calligrapher in the world
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Knowledge of English & Arabic Typing
Freehand Drawing & Painting (FHDC)
Journalism. Website:  UAE Art Gallery.com
Logo Design (more than 200 logos in UAE) CalligraphyLogo.com

Anatomic calligraphy is a style in which the portrait of a person is drawn using the person's name in Arabic. Best examples of this style are the portrait of the founding president of the UAE late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan drawn using the letters of his name in Arabic. Khaleel has already drawn the portraits of many rulers and important personalities using the letters of their names in the anatomic calligraphic style. This non-Arab calligraphist in Arabic, who draws Arabic letters in such a wonderful style of calligraphy, has been leaving the minds of those who love calligraphic works wonder struck constantly for the last 20 years.

Computer Skills:

Communication & Correspondence:
Known to speak, read and write English, Hindi, Arabic and Malayalam.

Current Assignment:

Creative Director & Anatomic Arabic Calligrapher (2007 - till date)
Crystal Arc LLC Dubai - UAE
     Supervision of creative dept., Doing Calligraphy & Projects.

Creative Director (2005 - 2007)
ColourHouse Advertising LLC Dubai - UAE
     Above Media and Below Media Solutions.

Creative Dept. Team Leader (1997 - 2005)
ETISALAT Yellow Pages

Publishers of the Official Telephone Directories (WhitePages & YellowPages)
Job Specs:
Senior Creative Designer
Initiated and set up an in-house profit centre offering
commercial design services.
Liaising with our offices in Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia & Egypt on matters
pertaining to system / software & file format for transfer between different platforms.
Reducing turnaround time for over 80000 artwork for
Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Sharjah Directories.
File Conversion of artworks for placement during pagination
Checking colour separations before release for printing.
Archiving Artworks.
Telegulf Directory Publications LLC, A Publishing Company
affiliated to Tele Direct of Canada, the publishers of the official
“Yellow Pages”. I was instrumental in the production of advertisement
& pagination for our publications. My job also involved supervision at the printing
stageI had ample exposure to concepts, both design & selling during
the course of my employment. I have also honed my skills on the Macintosh
to effectively present layout, Graphics & Typography for maximum impact.

There are many other famous works of Khaleel in which he drew the verses of Holy Quran using not only the letters of the verses, but also depicting the meanings through the image. When he drew the chapter Al Feel (elephant) of the Holy Quran using all its verses, it became the picture of an elephant. When he used the verse depicting camel in Quran (Afala Yandhuroona Ilal Ibli Kaifa Khulikath) it took the shape of a camel. These works became the great examples of anatomic style of calligraphy. Most of his calligraphies are the shapes and imageries that form in these types of pictures. 

Art Director (1996 - 1997)
Ariana Plastic Ind. LLC (Ajman - UAE)

The Horse Calligraphy depicting selected lines from the poems of the UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, transcends beyond the beauty of letters to create images that depict the meaning of the words

Leadign Plastic Manufacturing Company
Artworks of Layout Designing and Supervision
Flex Graphics, Negative & Positive Film Production & Color separation.

.Senior Graphic Designer (1995 - 1996) Al Alif Advertising L.L.C

ALLAH


DUBAI


FAZZA

Khaleel may be the only artist who drew calligraphy of the same words in 100 different shapes. He drew the Arabic words Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Emarat in 100 different styles each and leaves the spectators wonder struck constantly.

Khaleel, who has always loved art and literature, has taken it up as his means of life. However, calligraphy was his first love. There is one project, which he looks at as a dream project of his life. It is to draw the picture of UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, if he gives permission to him to do so.
"It may perhaps become a historic project and open the doors of the Guinness Book World Records to me. It could also be the greatest example of anatomic calligraphy and this history would become a turning point in calligraphy art," says Khaleel.

A graphic designing and printing organization our activities included Designing Labels, PoP’s etc.  Logos, Monograms, Brochures, Catalogues
Visualizing : Press Advertising. Printing : Offset & Silk Screen Printing
Desk Top Publishing : Designing of layouts for Commercial Magazines.
Newsletters and text books.

Programme Presenter / Director

ASIANET  ‘Ayalkoottam’ a commercial programme : worked as a programme presenter, Serial Director.

Editor (1995)

Worked with Chithram Film Magazine, Dubai - UAE.

Journalist & Script Writer (1994)

Worked with Ras Al Khaima Radio (RADIO ASIA) Dubai
Worked with Various news paper (Mathrubhumi, Madyamam, Deepika & Chandrika)
as special correspondent & middle pies Colum Writer.

Graphic Designer (1992 - 1993)

Worked with Utharadesham news Paper Kerala

Commercial Artist (1991)

Worked with National Arts Kerala

ABU DHABI

AL IMARAT

KHALIHA

Commercial Artist (1991)

A cumulative experience of over 15 years in the Advertising / Publishing Industry
Amiable Disposition and able to interact at all levels.
Committed & Competent administrator
Progressive & Innovative thinking
Can cope with long Hours and work related stress.
Recognized by newspaper & Magazines for outstanding Calligraphic works.
Earned more than 13 State Level Award & One National Award for Art and Literary works.

Outstanding Achievement Award - 2005 Campaign,
ETISALAT - Yellow Pages

Khaleel is UAE's No.1 calligraphy logo designer.
He created more than 1000 logos in the
UAE & GCC Market. LOGO GALLERY is here  » »

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Khaleel received many important awards in art and literature at a very young age. He bagged the Kerala Cartoon Academy Award for cartoon/caricature at the age of 16. He became the youngest award winner in the history of Kerala Cartoon Academy in this category. Khaleel won 15 significant awards from India and abroad within 35 years of his age. He received the first Thoolika Award for young writers in 1992, MP Narayana Pillai Award for young writers in 2000 (along with M V Devan's "Devaspandam"), and Malayattoor Award for short story in 2002 (along with M Mukundan's novel).
Thrills of all these awards have been enriching Khaleel's creativity. .