Design — Shihab Mian

Education

School for Poetic Computation
HTTPoetics
2024

Toronto Metropolitan University
BFA, New Media
Concentration in Computational Arts
2016 - 2021

Professional Experience

Team Liquid
Senior Graphic Designer
2022 - 2025

DEPT Agency
Motion Designer
2021 - 2022

TheScore
Content Creator
2018 - 2021

Awards

Esports Team of the Decade
Esports Awards, Team Liquid
2025

“Why We Didn’t Sign Doublelift”
Clios Shortlist Award, Sports
Team Liquid
2024

“The World’s Largest Keyboard”
Clios Bronze Award, Sports
Team Liquid
2024

Esports Creative Team of the Year
Esports Awards, Team Liquid
2024

Exhibition History

Wisp
Soft Internet Theory, Art Gallery of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
2025

cybertropism
flashDrive, InterAccess
Toronto, Canada
2024

Various Works
Long Winter 12.1, Tranzac Club
Toronto, Canada
2024

The Lights in the Sky are Stars
All The Small Things, Northern Contemporary
Toronto, Canada
2024

As an extenion of my
Swash & Serif 7, Northern Contemporary
Toronto, Canada
2023

Various Experimental Motion Works
DEMO Fest
Netherlands
2022

Wisp
Connective Tissue, Gallery 1313
Toronto, Canada
2022

Grants

Career Catalyst: Project Grants
Ontario Arts Council
2022

Residencies

Self Directed
Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts
Toronto, Canada
2025

Music Gallery Residency
918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education
Toronto, Canada
2025

Last Updated 17.09.25

motion + graphic designer

SHIHAB MIAN (he/him)
[She-hub Me-In]

shihab.mian@gmail.com
Instagram
CV

Shihab is a motion and graphic designer with over 8 years of experience. He has worked in a freelance capacity since 2017. Most recently he has worked full-time at Team Liquid, an esports organization since 2022. He has experience leading marketing campaigns across multiple platforms with a team of designers working under him. Shihab is comfortable in a client facing role, having experience pitching and handling client feedback in multiple previous roles. He thrives in situations that allow for experimentation and breaking rules and Shihab looks to push boundaries with everything he does.

Alongisde the traditional design expierence, Shihab holds an active fine arts practice. He is intrigued by the impact of technology on human relationships & communication in our ever-connected world.

Based in Tkaronto, Canada, Shihab holds a BFA in New Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. He has exhibited works locally and internationally, at the Art Gallery of Guelph, InterAccess, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Gallery 1313, Tranzac Club, and many others.

Clients Include: Alienware, Ancestry, Disney, Honda, Marvel, MLSE, Monster, SAP, Star Wars, Twitch, Visa, VIZ Media, Uber, Ubisoft & many more.

CONTACT

Artist Portfolio

Motion Reel (2024)
After Effects, Blender, TouchDesigner

Select Illustrations: Xulin Wang
Sound Design: Alex Debets

roomtobreathe (2021)
Art Collective Brand

Branding & creative direction for Toronto based new media experimental art collective, []tobreathe (room to breathe).

Apparel Marketing (2022 - 2025)
Team Liquid

Team Liquid has many long standing partnership with many popular IPs throughout fiction, leveraging imagery from these IPs we produced apparel and merchandise lines. Marketing direction is crucial to get word out to potential fans about these very limited apparel runs, showcasing products to our gaming focused audience.

Clients include: Viz Media, Disney, Marvel, etc.

Race to World First 5 (2024)
Team Liquid

Creative Lead: Shihab Mian
3D Leads: Enigma (Tiago Paixao) & Andie Roberts
Live Production: Faizan Valimohamed, Michael Menecola, Jared Maynigo, Taylor Giampaolo
Design Team: Yasen Trendafilov, Hendrik Tol, Stacey Yamada, Zack Kiesewetter
Illustrations: Cryomera
Motion: Taylor Giampaolo, Shihab Mian

A 14 day broadcast that peaked at 65000+ viewers on Twitch, this project showcases broadcast, marketing, and social assets that went into supporting this monstrous world first effort by Liquid Guild.

Case Study on Behance

Social Campaigns (2022 - 2025)
Team Liquid

Design work by Shihab Mian, however all social media collateral within Team Liquid is built upon and remixed from a long process of interating on each others work.

S/O Tiffany Peng, Matt Eriks, Stacey Yamada, Hendrik Tol, Felipe Braga, Brenda Cardoso, Zack Kiesewetter, Yasen Trendafilov, RaiShaun Younger

A unique challenge presented working at an organization that competes worldwide across several prominent video game titles, Team Liquid needs active social media collateral to track events and inform fans of the orgs activity. Designing these packages for specific events requires research and understanding from the team to inform the context of the graphics. It’s our goal to create something fresh that resonants with fans while still referencing back to working systems and design ideas.

Youtube Thumbnails (2018 - 2025)
Team Liquid, TheScore
2018 - Present

Part of creating content on YouTube is learning and playing to the youtube video algorithim. It’s an integral part of whether a video suceeds or fails. Videos for which I’ve done thumbnail designs for have amassed more than 10 million views on the platform. Averaging a high click through rate, I pride myself on being able to depict important story beats in a concise and effective way.