Winners of the Iran Web and Mobile Festival for illustration and cartoon “Digital Awareness”
The Arbitration for illustration and cartoon “Digital Awareness” was held Wednesday, February 13, 2019, with the presence of referees of this call at the Aliha Gallery and selected thirty works for exhibition and publication. This call was a section of Iran Web and Mobile Festival, organized by the Spiral Design Center, in collaboration with Aliha Gallery and the Media Supporters, Honargardi, Artibition & I Am A Designer Campaign. The referees of this competition were Kambiz Dermakhbakhsh, Jamal Rahmati, Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour, Farshid Parsikia & Hamed Bidi, who selected thirty artworks amongst almost one hundred received works with three best-selected works. These artworks will be shown on the 14th and 15th of February in the closing ceremony of the 11th Iran Web and Mobile Festival, and first to third place will be awarded gold coins and the honorary statue of the festival. Then the 30 premieres will be shown at Aliha Gallery for five days on Feb 22, 2019.
The names of artists whose works are among the top 30 works are as follows. The names of the first to third persons will be announced at the closing ceremony of the Web and Mobile Festival for the awarding of awards:
• Mahnaz Yazdani
• Nasser Moghaddam
• Ahmad Reza Dadkhah
• Mansoureh Dehghani
• Mohammad Reza Izadi
• Mohammad Rahi
• Mohammad Ali Khalaji
• Jaber Asadi
• Hamid Ghalijari
• Ahmad Hajibabayee
• Javad Takjoo
• Alireza Pakdel
• Ashkan Shir Mohammadi
• Farhad Zamani
• Akef Rahmati
• Ehsan Ganji
• Davood Safari
It is worth noting that this call has been held with the aim that the Iranian designers and illustrators of become more familiar with the community of Iranian mobile and mobile activists, as well as addressing issues related to the digital world for the second year. Last year, a similar call was made by the Spiral Design Center on the side of the Web & Mobile Festival of Iran on “Digital Life”, with the selected works of the second call to be published in a book.
For more information about this competition, visit its website at iwmf.ir/poster. Selected works will be published in addition to the exhibition on websites and social networks of the Spiral Design Center, Iran’s Web & Mobile Festival, and Honargardi.
* Judgement conducted by Kambiz Derambakhsh was done in his home due to his accident.
