Master of Art in Graphics 2005
Department of Graphics, School of Art
Tarbiat Modarres University( TMU)

Bachelor of Art in Painting 2001
Department of Painting, School of Art
Islamic Azad University, Tehran Centre

Research Methodology, Principles of English to Persian translation, Teaching Methods, Educational Evaluation,
Educational Psychology.


I began my art career in 1998 when I designed a cover book: “The Hundred Years of Khuzestan History”. Years later, when it started to pour, I preferred to start up my design firm and focus on graphic design where more than 40 graphic project accomplishments in its portfolio. Since 2006, I joined Azad University, as a faculty of department of art and have been enthusiastically engaged in teaching Graphics to college students.

Please refer to menu on www.behzadalavi.com to have a look at my graphic works. Here is also a list of my selected activities below:



During the years of my life in academia, I’ve came across enthusiastic and inspiring teacher as well as boring and off-the-mill never-ending lectures.
I’ve always asked myself: ‘what would I do if I were a teacher?’ The first discovery was that: ‘A perfect artist is not necessarily a good teacher’! One needs huge amount of interest and dedication plus a couple of tiny genes down in the DNA!’
I started my teaching career by teaching “Principles of Graphic” and “Computer Graphics” (Adobe Photoshop) at ACECR in fall 2002.
In the past eight years I have taught different courses and in each class I have constantly tried to find out the advantages and disadvantages of my method and improve the next program to be more useful, interesting and enjoyable for students.



The opposite table is presenting courses I’ve been teaching in these two years, reflecting an overview of my teaching experiences.


I take Photos from landscapes, buildings and detailed objects to find
out the beauty of the world we have forgotten in our everyday life.


When I was a undergraduate student, I used to go climbing and body building, but now my work out budget has boiled down to swimming.

Travelling opens my mind, teaches me about other cultures
and history, and reminds me, how short the life is!

Moments spent with my family and friends, I am meaning happiness to me.

My father was a faculty member of school of electrical engineering at Sharif University and my mother was a fashion designer who taught in Falaq Art School.











I was born 2536 after establishment of Persian Kingdom (1/6/1977) in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. My parents named me BEHZAD; Seyed Behzad Alavi.



We moved to Germany in 1988, when I was 11 years old, where my father was working on his PHD in Stuttgart University and I was pursuing my serious elementary studies at Jörg-Ratgeb school in Stuttgart-Neugereut for 3 years.
We returned to Iran in 1992 when I started my high school. In parallel, I studies at FKM private art institute to learn painting techniques. After high school and successfully passing university entrance exam I started painting as a bachelor student and continued MA in Graphics.

Now, I am a university faculty and work as a freelance designer. In the spring of 2010 I got married at the age of 32 and live happily with my wife in our little apartment in the north western part of our home town, Tehran.