illustratore

Gioia Marchegiani was born in Rome in 1972. After studying illustration at Istituto Europeo di Design, in Rome, she moved to Bern, Switzerland, where she lived for ten years. Today she lives in Rome, in between the sea and the city, with her family, her cat Linus and two tortoises. She likes drawing en plan air, strolling and gardening, activities that she considers as meditation practices prior to art creation. Her books were published in Italy and abroad, where she received national and international awards.

Nadia Budde was born in 1967 in Berlin, where she lives and works as an illustrator. She studied Visual Communication Studies at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. In 2008 she was Visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein, and since 2005 she has been given various teaching assignments, lectures, workshops at home and abroad. From 2013 to 2015, she did artist residencies in Kyrgyzstan, India and Italy.

Niece of Sigmund Freud, Tom Seidmann-Freud (pseudonym of Marta Freud), is one of the greatest names of German children’s literature from the 20's. After studying fine arts, she choses a male pseudonym and starts creating a unique, surreal fictional world, made of clear lines and bright colours. She publishes her first book at 22 and in 1920 she marries the writer Jankew Seidmann in Berlin. She writes and illustrates several picture books where ideal dream and phantasmagoria play a key role.

Nata in un piccolo paesino delle campagne trevigiane, fin da piccola è stata attratta dal disegno e dal pasticciare con le proprie mani con forme e colori, caratteristica non attenuatasi con l'età. Dopo la maturità artistica ha intrapreso il corso in Disegno Industriale dell'Università IUAV di Treviso fino alla specializzazione in Comunicazioni Visive e Multimediali.

Sylvie Bello is a French illustrator born in Besançon in 1980. Her background is textile design but she's rather passionate about drawing and illustration. After her education, she moved to Italy where she started her career with International exhibitions such as Ilustrarte in Lisbon or I colori del Sacro in Padua. In 2015 she was awarded Premio della Critica at Tapirulan contest. She often works with monotype but she likes graphite and traditional handmade techniques like engraving and silk-screen printing.

Marianna Merisi is a landscape architect who gathers together either a wide botanical knowledge and uncommon talent in drawing. In 2015 she was awarded with Premio Lavinia Taverna, a prominent prize dedicated to women working in the fields of gardening and landscape. She graduated at Milan Politecnico with a thesis on “Pioneer Plants: a urban regeneration project”. Since 2010 to 2016 she collaborated with Cooperativa Sociale Cascina Bollate, inside the jail premises in the outskirts of Milan, a nursery-garden where unusual plant species are grown.

Rotraut Susanne Berner, grew up in a rural landscape in the fifties in the south-west of Germany.  She studied graphik-design in Munich and started her working life designing book-jackets for adults' books. with the focus on illustration. Since many years she is designing and illustrating books for adults and now mainly for children, writing also her own stories. As she herself says, she was influenced by the german illustrator Walter Trier and Wilhelm Busch.

Melissa Castrillón is a freelance illustrator living in Cambridge, England. Born in 1986, She grew up in a small town outside London to an english mother & Colombian father. Her early years were spent drawing and climbing trees and now she spends most of her time day dreaming about climbing trees & drawing whilst in her pyjamas.

Riccardo Guasco is a painter and illustrator based in Italy. He researches the lightness of form and color of the heat and he does it with a few colors and simple lines. He loves old posters of the 30’s, Picasso, Depero, Feininger, the Russian suprematism, Cubism and heroic cyclists of old times. His illustrations appear on advertising campaigns, magazines, books, hats and bicycles.

Ivan Chermayeff is one of the most prolific and well known graphic designers and illustrators in the USA. He graduated at Yale University and founded the Chermayeff & Geismar studio, with Tom Geismar, designing logos and brand images which have become famous worldwide ever since. He was awarded the Yale Arts Medal, the gold medals of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Society of Illustrators. He also served for two decades as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art.