Andrew Knapp is a graphic designer and photographer currently living in Vancouver who has traveled to over 30 countries with Momo the border collie. Along with his commercial photography and design work, he has filmed a TEDx Talk, and worked on projects with brands like Target, Canon, Starbucks and Volvo. He’s amassed a social media following of over a million followers. Andrew continues to live a life devoted to his dogs and the people around them.
Giulia Orecchia has always lived in Milan. She studied Visual Design at Scuola Politecnica del Design, where, among her teachers, she met Bruno Munari. She mainly illustrates picture books, many of which by renown authors, as well as covers, short stories, novels, poems. She is also a toy designer. She was awarded the Italian Andersen Prize, at its 16th edition.
Massimiliano Tappari was born in 1967. He imagines the world like a big book to flip through, with plenty of characters and plots hidden in everyday objects and landscapes. He published Oooh! Inventario di fotografia and Coffee Break (Corraini). Among his most recent books, created with Chiara Carminati, are A fior di pelle (Nati per leggere Award 2019), Ninna No and Occhio ladro (Italian Andersen Award 2021 for Best Artist Book), Lapis editions.
Jeugov (Jacopo Riva 1981), a failed lumberjack, was cast away in the field of fashion. Saved by a mermaid, he marries her. They live together in Milan, he misses the woods, she misses the sea, but they have six wonderful children who keep them busy. Now he invents and draws stories for them.
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.