Crockett Johnson was the pen name of the cartoonist and children’s book illustrator David Johnson Leisk, born in New York City in 1906, who first came to prominence as author of the groundbreaking comic strip, Barnaby. Besides illustrating his wife Ruth Krauss’s The Carrot Seed and The Happy Egg, Crockett Johnson created Harold and the Purple Crayon, and six other Harold adventures, which have sold more than two million copies worldwide. Crockett Johnson died in 1975.
Giulia Bernardelli, "Bernulia", è nata a Mantova, e cresciuta nella libreria e galleria d'arte di famiglia. Diplomata all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, ha lavorato con bambini e ragazzi in diversi musei prima di cominciare, quasi per caso, a mischiare illustrazione, fotografia e grafica. Ne è nato un lavoro che definisce su misura per sé.
Ama la natura e tutto ciò che è selvatico e sincero.
Lucio Schiavon illustrator and graphic designer born in Venice. He has collaborated with Fabrica, La Biennale di Venezia, Armando Testa Agency. He illustrates books for the publisher Nuages in Milan and exhibited at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, in Venice. He won International Motion Art Award in New York and Berlin Interfilm Festival Short Movie 2015 with two different short films in animation.
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Francesca Biasetton, illustrator and calligrapher, worked in the fashion industry for magazines, catalogues, commercials. Her work has been displayed in the solo exhibition Cento disegni per la moda, and the collective exhibition Favolose – 15 illustratrici italiane per l’infanzia. She collaborates with cinema, theatre and publishing projects. Among her picture books, Abbecedario (Panini, 2009) was awarded with Premio Andersen 2003 and Premio Stregagatto 2004, and Chi ha rapito Giallo Canarino?
Yoon Kang-mi majored in painting at the university and has presented works in many exhibitions and studied picture books at various workshops. She was selected as an artist to be supported through visitors’ vote in the first Un-printed Ideas exhibition hosted by the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books and Art in 2018. A Building Where Trees Grow is her first original picture book.
Regina Giménez was born in 1966 in Barcelona, where she lives and works. Her paintings and collages start from astronomy, science and technology old diagrams and graphics, whereby she creates her own abstract language made of textures and colours. She had many solo exhibitions in art galleries in Spain and abroad. She took part is collective exhibition, among others, at Fundació Joan Miró; Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes; Centre d'Art Fabra i Coats, Barcelona.
Andrea Antinori lives in Bologna (Italy) and studied Graphic Design and illustration at ISIA, in Urbino, and at Escola Massana, in Barcelona. Since 2013, Andrea collaborates as an illustrator with Italian and foreign publishing houses.
Elisa Talentino (Ivrea 1981) è un’artista che lavora con illustrazione, grafica d’arte, pittura e animazione. Ha realizzato illustrazioni per The New York Times, The Washington Post, Goethe Institut, Arizona Theatre Company, Einaudi, Mondadori, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Bompiani, Il Saggiatore, Favini, Davines e molti altri.
Irene Rinaldi was born in Rome, where she currently lives and works. She collaborates with publishing houses, Italian and international magazines. Specialised in printing techniques‚ a crucial part of her work is related to the study of engraving and handmade printing. She is inspired in the Fifties graphic design, xylograph, screen printing and poster-art.
Among her clients The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, AARP, L’Espresso, Vogue Italia, Elle France, Mondadori, La Nuova Frontiera, Taschen, Topipittori.
Di origine etrusca, Giovanna Ranaldi vive tra Roma e Madrid. E’ stata incisore, stampatore, restauratrice, educatrice; attualmente è illustratrice e autrice. Per quattro anni ha ideato e condotto un laboratorio d’arte per senza dimora presso un centro diurno di Roma.