Trade Tales

Ahmad AbouZanat on the power of treating clients like guests

Episode Summary

Ahmad AbouZanat faced rejection and false starts on his road to design, but when his firm finally took off, it was clear that the future spelled success. Then, his business lost its safety net—and it was up to the designer to rebuild before his budding firm fell off the map.

Episode Notes

Ahmad AbouZanat’s early design gigs took him from Beirut to Houston and back again, before he finally settled in New York to launch his own firm. When a series of setbacks knocked his business off track, he almost folded the venture. Instead, he decided to double time his operational efforts and find new ways to put his firm on the map.

This episode was sponsored by The Savannah College of Art and Design

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Ahmad AbouZanat
Kaitlin Petersen
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