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The Brightness competition is a non-profit event open to both amateur and professional artists from any country.

The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the illustration sector.

Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, and showcasing their work to art critics and art directors.

Our aim at Brightness Magazine is to promote your art, and not to own it. You will continue to own all rights to your work. We are simply looking for you to grant us the rights to feature your art and promote you as an artist.

Think of this as an exciting collaboration with other artists and a great way of creating a global cooperative movement in the illustration industry.

Theme: Open / No Theme Categories

Books Children’s Books Editorial Experimental

The Jury

Devis Grebu Brian Grimwood Glenda Subrelin Masoud Mojaveri Agah

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Brightness is founded by Narjes Mohammadi (Hasmik) and Sadegh Amiri in 2016 as a digital magazine to present exclusive interviews with contemporary illustrators, who are so professional at their job with many valuable experiences which could help young artists. Alongside, it promotes current projects around the world with reviews and criticisms. www.brightnessmag.com

In 2019, The Brightness-illustration-news-Agency was founded by Sadegh Amiri and Narjes Mohammadi to cover any news and events related to illustration. This agency is a part of Brightness company . www.brightnessnews.com

The Brightness competition is a non-profit event open to both amateur and professional artists from any country.

The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the illustration sector. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, and showcasing their work to art critics and art directors. www.brightnessaward.com

The Brightness competition is a non-profit event open to both amateur and professional artists from any country.

The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the illustration sector. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, and showcasing their work to art critics and art directors. www.bristu.com

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Sadegh Amiri, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1987, has completed his education in the United Arab Emirates. His measureless interest in graphics made him drop out of accounting studies and continue in graphics.

Additionally, he has organized many graphic and photo exhibitions in different countries.

He was the founder of brightness (digital Illustration journal) by 2017.

Founder and Art Director of Brightness Magazine (2018-2017) Editor-In-Chief and Art Director at Hermes Magazine (2016-2014)

SADEGH AMIRI HANZAKI CO-FOUNDER AND CEO PHOTOGRAPHER & ART DIRECTOR

Editor-In-Chief Art Director at Rouyesh Magazine (2014-2013) Photographer at Tehran-e-emrooz and Hamshahri Newspaper (2013-2010)

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Narjes Mohammadi

NARJES MOHAMMADI (HASMIK) CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR IN CHIEF ILLUSTRATOR & ART DIRECTOR

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was born in 1985 in Mashhad. She fell in love with drawing at her grandparents’ house while growing up in Mashhad. Narjes works predominately in the medium of painting and illustrating.

Narjes completed a BFA in Graphic Design with distinction at the Shariati Technical College in Tehran in 2009, and then she delved herself into illustration by taking a two years course in Iranian Illustrators Society and then took a course at Fondazine Stepan Zavrel in Sarmede in 2017. She has been working professionally as an independent illustrator and editor in chief of Brightnessmagazine.

She introduced her inspiration sources in this way: “As an Eastern artist, I’ve always inspired by nature as the first and most important point for artistic work as well as Iranian miniature heritages. An interest to Chinese philosophy encourages her to study trees and listen to the sound of them lead to making a collection of paintings base named (Bird Woman). “Personally speaking, I think it was the prominent point of my life as an independent artist. Besides that, I can’t ignore the important role of Frida in my artistic life. Since I was a teenager, I’m impressed by her courageous and skillfulness in presenting her beliefs and ideas.”

Judging Criteria Born in Romania, Devis Grebu studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Bucharest. In 1964, he emigrated and, in the early 70s, he settled in France, where he acquired French citizenship. Seeking new professional opportunities, he moved to New York in 1986 and remained a United States resident over a period of 10 years. In 1998, he sojourned once again in France before returning to his native country, where he has been living since 2001. But, after a very disturbing moral, political and civic legislatives actions of the romanian Government and the Parlament began developing in Romania, Devis Grebu decided to leave again - for an exile - back in France, his adoptive country, where he lives today.

Professional experience His art-work has been exhibited all over the world and critically acclaimed for more than 40 years, with one–man shows at National Museums and many renown Art Galleries in the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, China, Israel, Spain, Romania, Japan, Belgium, Italy, and Iran. His illustrations are internationally known and his work has frequently and consistently appeared in major magazines, newspapers, book-publishing houses and advertising agencies throughout the United States, Europe and Israel. To mention some of them: The N.Y. Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Ha’aretz and many others, as well as book publishers, Gallimard, Flammarion, Simon&Schuster, Viking-Penguin etc. and advertising agencies, such as Cline Davis & Mann, TBWA, Grey, Saatchi&Saatchi, JWT etc. Apart from being an illustrator, Devis Grebu has worked as an Art Director for three magazines and managed his own Graphic Design Studio for about 10 years. He has designed postage-stamps, international trade-fair stands (for major companies and even for countries), commercial ads, playing cards, (haute-couture) fashion illustrations, calendars, package designs, posters and brochures, logos and medals, short animated TV movies, etc.

DEVIS GREBU READ MORE: WWW.DEVISGREBU.COM

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Brian Grimwood was quoted by Steve Heller in PRINT magazine as having changed the look of British Illustration.

He has worked for such diverse clients as The Beatles / ASDA / The Proms / NY Times / Sony and most famously did the Johnnie Walker logo….

He has lectured in China / Australia / America / Singapore and Norway….

He is a patron and founding member of The Association Illustrators and owns England’s foremost illustration agency The CIA.

BRIAN GRIMWOOD READ MORE: WWW.BRIANGRIMWOOD.COM

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As a role-model for young creatives there are few as long-established as Brian. Of his generation of image-makers there are very few to have risen to prominence and then remained at the top of their game.

The main driver of Brian’s success has been the ability to adapt and develop throughout his career, never resting on his laurels or settling for the repetitive use of a single visual hook. Anyone working in a creative discipline can learn a great lesson from this – diversity is key.

Judging Criteria Born in Pordenone in 1972, she studied advertisement graphics and photography. Following her love for drawing, she approached the world of editorial illustration for children, publishing more than 40 books with Italian, European and international publishing houses. She is also very passionate about artistic research, and she uses various techniques such as painting, ceramics and resin. Apart from various illustration exhibitions, she has displayed her work at various events and personal contemporary art exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad, and in collectives of artist’s books. She has taken part in a number of illustration exhibitions including the following: the Illustrators’ Exhibition within the Bologna Children’s Book Fair; the Portuguese Biennale “Ilustrarte 3” and “Ilustrarte 4”; “Le immagini della fantasia” in Sàrmede (Italy).

GLENDA SBURELIN

READ MORE: WWW.GLENDASBURELIN.BLOGSPOT.COM

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His life as an artist began when he started illustrating an alien world he created in his mind based on the small town he grew up in which is aptly named the “City of Silver Rain”.

As a teenager, he first became acquainted with Persian and world literature and continued his intellectual path by entering the visual arts conservatory.

He graduated from the fields of graphics, illustration and philosophy of art, but his specialty is the philosophy of semiotics (the study of symbols). In 2015, he published a book aimed at illustrators of all levels and children’s book authors. He is a faculty member in a university and has been researching in his fields

MASOUD MOJAVERI AGAH

for the past 15 years. He is an art director, a member of the editorial board, and the in charge of illustration division of several publications specialized in children’s literature.

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The Poster Illustrator for Brightness Award

Eleonora Simeoni, illustrator and artist born in 1995 in Bassano del Grappa. she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

Fascinated by all that is surreal and poetic, his subjects are born from the passion for surrealism, Nordic art, esotericism, books (bestiaries, novels, poems, stories). his poetics is “a parallel world where things do not appear as we see them”.

ELEONORA SIMEONI READ MORE: WWW.BEHANCE.NET/ELEOSIMEONI

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CATEGORIES

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Mahsa Hedayati Experienced illustrated for children books and Skilled in, Picture book making, Fine Art, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustration. Strong media and communication professional with a Master of art(M.A) focused in Illustration from University of tehran.

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PO-SHU WANG I graduated from Art school and work as an illustrator for years.

I draw whenever I go ; painting has gradually become part of my life. I won 5 international illustration awards during 2019-2017.

Hopefully I could publish my series picture book in the near future.

Cheetah is my cat and i really want people know more about him .. so I created a story about him. I hope I could publishing this book in 2020. I spend a long time to focus this story

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Francesca Dell’Orto Born near Milan in 1990, Francesca studied set and costume design at Brera›s Academy of Fine Arts (Milan).

She immediately began working on costumes and textiles for opera, theater, television and fashion, while pursuing her MA in History and Philosophy of the Performing Arts at the University of Milan.

In 2015 Francesca attended various courses at the International School of Illustration in Sarmede, falling in love with illustration and thus opening a new creative chapter in her life.

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Yao Jian (China) 21

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Pamela Chen (China)

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Salimeh Babakhan (Iran) 23

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Xiaofeng Zhu (China)

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Ekaterina Toporova (Russia)

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Varya Yakovleva (Russia)

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Giuliana Marigliano (Italy)

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Hale Ghorbani (Iran)

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Elena Font Vázquez (Spain)

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Mariella Cusumano (Italy)

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Marco Palena First Place

Marco Palena was born in Atessa near Chieti and lives in Pescara, Italy. He studied Art at high school and Architecture at university.

He has obtained recognition in several illustration competitions.

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Giuseppe Mascheroni I like to transform what I see, add my interpretation to objects and places, complicate everything by overlapping different layers, experiment with different techniques and even inconsistent compositional formulas. As if there were different souls inside me, conflicting personalities. I am an architect, and this is reflected in conceiving my compositions as an inevitably three-dimensional space, both in the project I am developing and in its relationship with the surrounding space, as if it could never exist only in itself but always in relation to something else. In my early works there was above all this, light structures that merged with the wall or suspended from the ceiling, which told an imagined architecture, which played with light, and again with layers, overlaps, movement, contrast between materials and textures.

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Parniyan Shabani nezhad « I was born in 1994 and graduated from Soore university of art in M.F.A. I›m a freelance illustrator with a passion for digital painting and an eye for details! i have a little experience in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe illustrator and seeking to become a character designer for animations.»

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Mahnaz Ebrahimi (Iran) Brightness Illustration Award 2020 40

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Sahar Khaleghi (UK)

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Olesia Krivolapova (Ukraine)

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Emanuela Orciari (Italy)

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Laura Montes (Spain)

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Alessandro Coppola (Italy) 45

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Andrey Naumov (Russia)

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Belgheis Faraji (Iran)

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Dansiyu Zhu (China) 49

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Shuyi An (China)

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SIGAL CASPIN SEGAL (Israel) Brightness Illustration Award 2020

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Hung-Ling Chen First Place

Hung-Ling Chen is a Taiwanese illustrator and graphic designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. During the period of study at Ming Chuan University (Taiwan) and Northumbria University, she had trained to tackle various design challenges under both Western and Eastern sides of thinking. During the practice in Edinburgh University, she developed and conveyed her ideas through illustrations and animations, exploring visual impact embodying details between imagination world and date to date reality. Her aim is for the viewer to attentively contemplate those enigmatic spaces.

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Claire Huntley Originally from Wales, I moved to London in the mid 80s to study Graphic Information Design and worked as a graphic (print) designer, moving into web design in the late 90s, working for publishers, med comms agencies and ecommerce. Since 2017 I have been freelancing as an illustrator/designer. I also freelance design in-house at Octopus Publishing, part of Hachette.

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Flore Deman Third Place

Flore Deman is a freelance illustrator from Belgium (1992).

Deman combines strong characters and compositions with a bright, atmospheric colour palette. She makes a poetical interpretation of the world surrounding us. Her work ‘The Narcissist’ got shortlisted in the World Illustration Awards 2020. Her illustrations are published in several newspapers and magazines. She created two children’s books.

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Janas Lau (Hong Kong) 57

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Ekachai Aek Chuensombat (Thai-Australian)

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Wei Su (Canada)

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Alice Su (Ukraine)

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Driss Chaoui (France)

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Delphine Balme (France)

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Doug Dabbs (America) 63

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Vanessa Cittadino (Italy)

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Dimas MacDonald (America)

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Lucas León First Place

Lucas León is an Illustrator from Villa Alemana, Chile. He studied Professional Illustration at the Arcos Institute, Chile. He works freelance and has been commissioned to make the product image for a brazilian beer brand named “Hocus Pocus”, music album covers for bands such as “Nerbuda” and posters for festivals such as “Rock And Trance”. He has also been selected in the Shortlist for “World Illustration Awards 2020” by The Association of Illustrators (London, UK) and Merit Winner for the «International Illustration Annual No.2020 »17 by 3x3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration (NY, EEUU).

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Giuseppe Mascheroni I like to transform what I see, add my interpretation to objects and places, complicate everything by overlapping different layers, experiment with different techniques and even inconsistent compositional formulas. As if there were different souls inside me, conflicting personalities. I am an architect, and this is reflected in conceiving my compositions as an inevitably three-dimensional space, both in the project I am developing and in its relationship with the surrounding space, as if it could never exist only in itself but always in relation to something else. In my early works there was above all this, light structures that merged with the wall or suspended from the ceiling, which told an imagined architecture, which played with light, and again with layers, overlaps, movement, contrast between materials and textures.

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Alessandro Coppola Alessandro’s inclination for drawing has its roots in his early years growing up in Sicily, with a particular fascination for cartoons and fairy tales. His love for the world of illustration thrived at the School of Fine Arts in Palermo. These years were then followed by a Master in Graphic Design at the IED in Rome.

He has published several picture and illustrated books, as well as organising a number of workshops for children in schools, bookshops and libraries. He has collaborated with different publishing houses as graphic and editorial consultant, and with quite a few communications companies as graphic designer and illustrator.

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Devanand Gujar (India)

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Maryam Khaleghiyazdi (America)

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MrKrazyMan Leiva (Guatemala)

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Varya Yakovleva (Russia)

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YU CAI (China)

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Hung-Ling Chen (Taiwan)

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Sima yazdani (Iran)

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Daria Rosso (Italy)

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Mila García (Spain)

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The Brightness competition is a non-profit event open to both amateur and professional artists from any country. The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the illustration sector. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, and showcasing their work to art critics and art directors. www.brightnessaward.com

Brightness is founded by Narjes Mohammadi (Hasmik) and Sadegh Amiri in 2016 as a digital magazine to present exclusive interviews with contemporary illustrators, who are so professional at their job with many valuable experiences which could help young artists. Alongside, it promotes current projects around the world with reviews and criticisms. www.brightnessmag.com

In 2019, The Brightness-illustration-news-Agency was founded by Sadegh Amiri and Narjes Mohammadi to cover any news and events related to illustration.

This agency is a part of Brightness company . www.brightnessnews.com

The Brightness competition is a non-profit event open to both amateur and professional artists from any country. The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the illustration sector. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, and showcasing their work to art critics and art directors. www.bristu.com