On the occasion of the exhibition “Shout: il tratto della leggerezza”, the Italian Cultural Institut of Montreal and the Centre de design de l’UQAM present the conference “La grafica del segno” by Alessandro Gottardo.
Tuesday October 9 – 12:30pm
Centre de design de l’UQAM
Hall DE 3550 1440, rue Sanguinet Montreal
Free admission
Alessandro Gottardo, in art Shout, was born in Pordenone in 1977. Now he lives and works in Milan, where he cooperate with publishing houses, magazines, journals, animation studios, brand designs and advertising agencies, like: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Esquire, Newsweek, National Geographic, Wired, The Saturday Evening Post, Le Monde, The Economist, Financial Times, Random House, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Penguin Books, Simon & Shuster, GQ, BBH UK, DDB, Young&Rubicam, Fallon, BDM, TWBA, Minimum Fax. Thanks to his work he has received plenty of international awards, such as three Gold Medals and three Silver Medals by the Society of Illustrators NY and one Gold Medal by The Society of Publication Designers. His works have been exhibited in Milan, Naples and Los Angeles. In 2010 he published Mono Shout (27_9 ed.), that is a monograph constituted of almost 200 illustrations. They are the result of ten years of work. with 27_9 he published also Jetlag V.1 (2006), Jetlag V.2 (2007) and Dazed (2011). Recently there has been the release of C’era una voce (Topipittori, 2012), that won the Naples Prize for Children’s Literature in 2012.