Siavash Fani

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Siavash Fani
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Tehran, Iran
NationalityCanadian
OccupationGraphic Designer
Known for Graphic Design - Visual Communications
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Siavash Fani (born in Tehran, Iran) is a Canadian graphic designer.

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Life and education

He went to the visual art school in 1992. After that in 1996 he started studying visual communications (Graphic Design) at Azad university in Tehran B.A - M.A. He was pretty interested in design and for this reason he selected working for the newspapers and magazine for 7 years. He also continued his education and received his master in visual communication (Graphic Design) from Azad university in Tehran and Interactive Media Management at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada. User Experience Design at OCADU in Toronto, Canada.

Work history

He worked as a designer and director in a lot of newspaper design studios like Hayateno newspaper, Soroush magazine, Hamshahri newspaper and also Iran newspaper and some advertising agencies until 2010. He also was an instructor at Humber College and OCADU University in Toronto, Ontario.

Awards

Exhibitions

IX International Eco-poster Triennial "the 4th Block" 2015, Kharkiv, Ukraine [5]

Happy New Year 2015! Toronto, Ontario, Canada [6] [7]

Happy New Year 2014! Toronto, Ontario, Canada [8] [9]

IX International Eco-poster Triennial "the 4th Block" 2012, Kharkiv, Ukraine [10]

Persianissimo + 10, poster exhibition 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [11] [12]

Web poster exhibition - Posters about the earthquake in Japan 2011 [13]

Posters for Steve Jobs 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [14] [15]

Web exhibition - Happy New Year 2011 [16]

Anniversary of 9/11, web poster exhibition 2011 [17]

Lahti Poster Biennial 2011, Lahti, Finland. [18] [19] [20]

Divarkoob poster exhibition 2010, Tehran, Iran. [21] [22]

A colorful day! poster exhibition 2010, Tehran, Iran. [23] [24]

Arts Hole [25]

Third International Biennial of Posters of the Islamic World 2009, Tehran, Iran [26]

25 years of Iranian Theatrical posters 2008, Tehran, Iran. [27]

Urban management poster exhibition 2008, Tehran, Iran. [28]

Second International Biennial of Posters of the Islamic World 2007, Tehran, Iran [29]

International Day of Disabled Persons, 2007 Rene Wanner's Poster Page [30]

International contest of art resistance 2006, Tehran, Iran [31]

Melli bank and environment poster competition 2004, Tehran, Iran [32]

First annual book cover design competition 2003, Tehran, Iran

First Self-Promotional Posters Exhibition of Iranian Graphic Designers 2001 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran.

See also

DPI Magazine Interview [33]

A book name New Visual Culture of Modern Iran, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands [34] [35]

Member of Registered Graphic Designers, RGD October 2014 – Present [36]

Member of Iranian Graphic Designers Society (IGDS) September 2003 – Present [37]

Member of International Journalist Federation (IFJ) April 2000 – Present [38]

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  1. ↑ IGDS (November 4, 2004)
  2. ↑ "هفتمين جشنواره مطبوعات كودك و نوجوان برگزيدگان خود را شناخت" [The 7th Children and Adolescent Press Festival recognizes its winners]. Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2005-11-16. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
  3. ↑ "برگزیدگان پنجمین جشنواره مطبوعات در حوزه شهری معرفی شدند" [The winners of the 5th Press Festival in the urban area were announced]. Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
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  25. ↑ "THE BRICK LANE GALLERY LONDON – Calling all artists for group exhibitions" . Retrieved 2022-01-15.
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  27. ↑ "پوسترهايي از ۲۵ سال تئاتر ايران به ديوار رفتند" [Posters from 25 years of Iranian theater went on the wall]. ISNA (in Persian). 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
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  29. ↑ Rang magazine(October 19, 2007)
  30. ↑ "Rene Wanner's Poster Page / News". www.posterpage.ch. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
  31. ↑ Rang magazine (November 18, 2006)
  32. ↑ IGDS (November 4, 2004)
  33. ↑ "Siavash Fani - DPI Magazine Interview by mon 1919 - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
  34. ↑ Amazon
  35. ↑ BIS Publishers (January 1, 2006)
  36. ↑ RGD
  37. ↑ IGDS
  38. ↑ IFJ
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