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Saed Meshki
was born in 1964 in Iran. He started
his artistic activities at the age of twenty four. During the
sixteen years of his professional career, he has worked as a
free-lance in his personal studio on cultural projects. Saed studied
graphic design in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran
University.
He is now teaching at the same University. Saed
is a member of the Alliance Graphic International (AGI), an active
member of the Iranian Graphic Design Society (IGDS) and a cofounder
of Neshan (Graphic Design magazine of Iran).
In 2001, he and
three artists of his generation founded the 5th Color Group with an
objective to create a link between graphic design in Iran and the
rest of the world. The group has organized several exhibitions both
in Iran and abroad.
Saed has been a member of the Selection
committee of 7th Iranian graphic design Biennial , jury member of
the first Iranian self-protection Posters Biennial and the 5th
Exhibition of Children's books illustrators.
In the past few
years, Saed has focused his efforts on book design. Currently he is
Art Director and Graphic Designer of several publication houses.
Books designed by Saed include "A Remarkable Event" (2003), "Asking
Makes the Way Farther" (2003), "God Reflected" (2002) and "Poems by
Micheal Angello" (2004) and.... Saed has also been Executing Manager
of Sign (Directory of Iranian Signs), Project Manager for the
publication of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Designers series (20
volumes, 2004) and Art Director and Graphic Designer of "Eye"
collection. In 2003, Saed founded "Meshki" publication house.
Numerous books of illustration, literature and illustration +
literature are to appear soon.
Moreover, Saed has been Art
Director and Graphic Designer of several festivals including
International Educational Film Festival of Roshd, International
Theatre Festival of Persian Land, International Festival of Comical
theatres, Abadan Film Festival, etc.
Saed's artworks have been
published in many books namely in "Area" (selected by Anthon Beeke),
World Graphic Design and several other magazines.
Saed Meshki
has won numerous awards and prizes both at home and abroad. He has
been the winner of the Second Prize for cover design and the Special
Prize of Creativity of the 6th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Design
(1999), First Prize for Cover Design of the 7th Biennial of Iranian
Graphic Design (2001), Pearl of Czech Republic Design(2002), First
Prize of the First Biennial of Cover Design of Tehran (2003),
Icograda Excellence Award in the 19th international poster Biennial
Warsaw (2004)
saed@saedmeshki.com
www.saedmeshki.com
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