Malik grew up with a avid love for design, whether it was in apparel or in architecture. His grandmother encouraged him to start a subscription to the magazine, Architectural Digest, where be began to draw inspiration from various projects from famous architectural designers to award winning projects. Malik initially began exploring his passion by majoring in architecture at the High School of Art and Design located in midtown New York. After graduating in 2015, Malik continued his architectural endeavors at Thomas Jefferson University. After his first year of architecture in college, although he still very much enjoyed architecture, Malik began to ask himself whether or not architecture was the form of design expression that he was looking for. Recalling his love growing up for magazines and the culture behind it Malik switched over to graphic design, which allowed him to use many of his skills he learned while doing architecture. Malik took a graphic design course here he learned the ins and out of putting a book or a magazine together; not long after during his break from school, he began using his phone to documents activities his friends and himself did, from museum visits to hanging near a beach. This ultimately was the beginning of Malik’s journey to begin his very own publication called MSKF Magazine. As a visual communicator and graphic designer, Malik uses his magazine for both lifestyle and fashion; the two compliments one another very nicely by establishing a mood. Some of the imagery in Malik’s pieces often refers to the history of African Americans or references black excellence. Please check out Malik’s publications by clicking the hyperlink above!