Design Battlefield معركة التصميم
Design Battlefield is a design hackathon series founded by Osama Khalil in 2018, where designers compete under time pressure across disciplines like posters, packaging, branding, and murals. Over eight editions it reached 5,000+ attendees and grew a community of 40,000+ members across Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.
The Story
Design Battlefield started in Amman in August 2018 with a simple idea: put designers in one room, give them a brief and a deadline, and let the pressure bring out their best work. The first edition focused on poster design and established the format that every later edition followed.
From there the series grew edition by edition: packaging, Bauhaus-inspired design, merchandise, a regional branding edition that connected designers from Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen, communication design, book design, and finally wall murals in Saudi Arabia. What began as a local hackathon became one of the largest grassroots design communities in the MENA region, covered by Al-Arabi TV and other regional media.