Saluti (dal mio) passato - my illustration gets a mention from the jury!

I'm back with good news. This month I submitted my work for the illustration contest of a calendar for 2010 "Immagining the time", I wasn't selected among the winners, but I got a mention from the jury! That just made me so happy...

http://www.comune.trivignano-udinese.ud.it/default.asp?id=273

It is about greeting and saying goodbye at the same time. From the present I send a greeting to my home-land (Hungary), and I also say goodbye to my past and to my country's past. The raven with the envelope was the symbol of Hungary's post office (Magyar Posta) during the socialism. It was changed by the time the Berlin wall came down. I used scanned real elements from that era which I elaborated in Photoshop, and made the illustration in Adobe Illustrator. It contains also one of my collages from my early schooldays (floral element on the envelope) - which is a real hungarian folk floral-pattern. With the colours I tried to bring some "Piermario Ciani"-style to my stuff, because all the contest was honoring his carrier. It was real fun, and now maybe I would have done a little more different, (I'm not happy with the illustration a 100%) but I'm happy with the results in general, and the fact that I was able to express so many things with just one illustration.

(Ap)posta per te - calendar 2009 in the spirit of Mail art

© Katalin Daka /// Cartolina "tutto in uno"

Cartolina/mail art creata da me per onorare la vita e il lavoro di Piermario Ciani. Pezzo unico, tecnica mista, selezionato e stampato nel calendario 2009 delle officine creative di Udine.

Cartolina "all in one"

Postcard/mail art that I created to honour the life & work of Piermario Ciani. Unique artwork, mixed tecnique, selectioned and printed in the 2009 calendar of the officine creative in Udine.

Visioni di un visionario - film ticket as a piece of art

Last year together with some very famous illustrators I was involved in an illustration project for the cinema Visionario in Udine. I was honoured to be among the first 6 people who could illustrate the back of the movie tickets, filling a space that usually is out of use.

It was also a way to commemorate a very innovative italian artist, illustrator and graphic designer Piermario Ciani, famous for his Mail art, died in 2006 at the age of 55.

The illustrators are: Guido Scarabottolo, Massimo Giacon, Andrea Rauch, Nancy Rossit, Emanuela Biancuzzi.

Here is an article in italian about the project:

http://cinema.tesionline.it/cinema/notizia.jsp?id=2865

This was my illustration for the Visionario movie tickets:

"The beginning" © Katalin Daka /// vector illustration by Adobe Illustrator. My illustration celebrates the life and work of Saul Bass in the movie industry.