Born in Tehran, 1985
Living in Rasht, Iran
Iranian [Persian] Graphic & Font Designer
Author of Articles & Books
Penographer
Multiple Poster And Typeface Exhibitions
Published Artworks In Multiple Books
Selected As The Best Graphic Design Critic In Iran, 2012
Designer Of The First Grunge, Distorted, Not Cursive And Multicolor Persian Fonts
LinkedIn Profile Resume & Portfolio on Atbox
Articles:
About Mr. Reza Abedini’s typeface (ReZar); “Typeface or font, the problem is this!”
“King in revealing!” about Tandis magazine’s No. 100 competition result
“۱ computer, 555 designs!” about the effects and influences of computer on design
“Asterisk dot ttf!” about the Latin font families with a little look at Persian fonts
“I’m me, who are you?” about Paydari exhibition’s ending ceremony
“Welcome, Lady Bride!” about the first Unicode Nastaliq font
About Inaccuracies & typos in four books of Mr. Bahram Afravi about graphic & print
Comments About Standard Persian Writeing Program for Afravi Group
“In Profits of OpenType or everything you want from a font!” article in Gerafik va Chap Magazine
“Whatever you do, it doesn’t make much difference!” about Tehran-Seattle exhibition
“Don’t imagine at all, if you can’t imagine something new!” about creative ads
“Welcome Mr. Groom!” about the first Persian grunge typeface [done by myself]
“Homa isn’t Homa!” about a creature similar to a Persian mythical bird, Homa
“Tell FontLab that it hasn’t got menu, anymore!” about FontLab Studio software
Articles for the “Font” & “Press” study cases for the Garteh group
“From evaporation of awards to congelation of ethics” about my Garteh award that had been stolen [Now, it’s recovered. though!]
“Found it! I found the 29 years old founder of IGDS!”, You’re welcome!
“Designers Battlefield!” about the exhibitions, call for entries, awards, juries, sponsors,… in Iran
Jury Member:
One of the juries of the “First Iranian Wooden Book of Graphic and Illustration” by Rasm publication, in glorification of Dr. Shafiei Kadkani, the Persian Poet
Awards:
First Garteh prize in criticism category on the World Graphic Day 2012 in Iranian Artists’ Forum
Interviews:
Answering to the questions of Mr. Mehdi Sadeghi (Director of Rasm Publication) in Rasm website
Exclusive interview with Grafik va Chap Mag. in Iranian font designers section
Exclusive interview with “Toronto Shahrvand” published at Canada
Conversation with NorDar Magazine in Ukraine about Armenian typography and fonts, featuring my posters
Books:
Printed artwork in “40th Years Marquez” book by Rasm pub.
Printed artwork in “Gutenberg 555” book by Rasm pub.
Printed artworks in Rasm Student book of the year “Posters” book by Rasm pub.
Presented in Rasm Student book of the year “Artists”
Invited to & printed artworks in “New Illustration with Type” book by Anova pub. in England (sole Iranian designer)
Printed artworks in “Design And Design Vol.2” book by IndexBook pub. in France (sole Iranian designer)
Author of “Graphic & Irony” Book by Rasm pub.
Printed artwork in “World Graphic Day” book by Rasm pub.
Printed artworks in “Iranian Logotypes” book by 30 Bal e Honar pub.
Author and designer of book “Penography” by Rasm pub.
One of the authors of “About Font” book by Dayereye Chahar Rang Pub.
Two artworks in “Still Life With Rhetoric” book by Prof. Laurie E. Gries, Utah State University Press, USA
Exhibitions:
“International Visual Arts Festival of Resistance” in Tehran museum of contemporary arts
Finalist in ITHACA Poster contest in Greece [Ten Images 2008]
Logotypes for The International Year of Astronomy exhibition at Mir Ali Tabrizi Gallery
Solo poster exhibition “Seven Meters Deep In” at Marlik gallery, Khatam Organization, Rasht
Solo font design exhibition “DirtDark” at Art Bureau of Guilan
Solo poster exhibition “HAMTIRAH” at Gholamhossein Nami’s gallery, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran
“Mut zur Wut” (Courage to rage) 2012, International poster contest and free public exhibition in Heidelberg, Germany
“Looking Poster Design through Iran’s Eye”, a section of “International Invitational Poster Festival” at Turkey
Virtual:
“Digital Generation” by AVAJANG in Rang Magazine
Virtual gallery at Rasm.ir for “World Graphic Day”
Virtual gallery at Rasm.ir for “Master Sadegh Barirani’s Glorification”
Virtual gallery at Rasm.ir for “Armenian Typography”
Virtual gallery at Babelearte.it (Italy)
My Penography artworks on Rasm.ir
Online poster exhibition for Japan earthquake on posterpage website
Online poster exhibition for Urmia lake disaster in Iran
Other:
Appreciation for Teacher’s day poster
Accepted in Reza Abedini’s workshop, “Kargah e Avval”
Postal card for Nowrouz 1387 in Khatt Foundation Center homepage
Two posters for World Graphic Day 2008 in ICOGRADA
Selected young artist in “Segal” international graphic design magazine No. 15
Special plaque from Afravi Group For re-implementation of the Invisible movie poster
Inventor & designer of a special handwriting based on Moala [Iranian Calligraphy], named Kajire
Designer of more than 30 Persian typefaces & fonts
Designer of the first Persian grunge [=dirty] font in Iran
Member of Rasm publication researchers group
News agent of Afravi researchers group in Rasht
Creator and host of the intimate Interviews with Iranian graphic designers (12 issues)
News presenter of Art-Culture section at Radio Tabestaneh (Australia)
Featured on TypographyServed as a selected project for designing the first Persian distorted and grunge fonts
Graduated from Iranian Technical & Vocational Training Organization in Computer Graphics field. [96/100]
Review meeting about designing Persian fonts as a side event of Siakhash exhibition at Art Bureau of Guilan with Mr. Majid Safabakhshh
Selected as a Persian font designer by Luc Devroye from the School of Computer Science of McGill University, Montreal, Canada
One of the 20 best authors of “MozooeAzad” writing competition
Designing “SepidKhan” script and font; an alternate to braille based on Persian alphabet