Posters: Tokyo Designers Week 2010 Awards Iranian Artist

lifeismyright1-i Khashayar Teimouri has been awarded at the 2010 Tokyo Designers Week (TDW) held by Japan on the theme of “Endangered Species.” Teimouri’s Life is My Right won him the second prize of the event which he shared with Slovenia’s Miha Kosmac.

Israel’s Anna Braverman’s “Living Tracks” received the event’s grand prize.

Works by Iran’s Ali-Reza Nosrati, Hajir Roshangar, Amir Khojasteh and Mohammad Abolhassanzadeh also competed in the event, organized by Designboom magazine.

This year’s participants were judged by a five-member board of jury composed of Katsumi Asaba, Kashiwa Sato, Kenji Kawasaki, Shobun Nakashima and Noriaki Hayashi.

Iranian graphic designers have always been among successful participants in international events, collecting awards at different international festivals.

Mohammad Jamshidi was one of the most recent award-winning artists who received the Golden Bee Award of Russia’s Golden Bee International Biennial of graphic design in Moscow.

Female Iranian artists have also made a name for their brilliant graphic designs and have been awarded at numerous national and international events.

Golnaz Esmaili and Samira Adilipour are two designers whose works were awarded at the 20th edition of the Chaumont International Poster and Graphic Design Festival in France.

Esmaili topped the event’s “Workshops” section in a competition against 550 participants from around the world, while Adilipour received the third prize of the “Student Competition” section.