Meet Our Judges: Francesco Izzo, Art Director

Design is a broad category and it’s not more evident than here where we have Francesco Izzo, a graduate in industrial design moving gingerly—and successfully—into the role of art director at Nautilus magazine.

He earned his BFA in industrial design at La Sapienza in Rome, Italy and more recently a MFA in the Design as Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

It hasn't been too many years since he was at Nova Biomedical designing medical packaging, sales brochures, trade show materials and interface design solutions for touchscreen instruments. Today he combines his passion for design with illustration. And still has time to curate a show Una Storia Americana at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York which featured Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli.

Francesco is passionate about human interactions, stories and personalities. He observes reality and depicts it applying his design language. Through pencil and paper he creates illustrations and typography and uses the computer to transform these stories into fun and engaging digital experiences. Francesco loves anything related to storytelling, branding and videography.

He has a deep love for illustration and employs that on a daily basis in his role as art director for both print and web at Nautilus.

www.francescoizzo.com

What Francesco will be looking for: “I often tell myself there is no such thing as the perfect illustration. However I do believe in the subversive power of ideas, especially when they are filtered by the artist's unique personality and vision.”

3x3 International Illustration Annual Show No.15

The 3x3 International Illustration Awards Show is open to all illustrators in all countries. There is a separate jury for each of our three shows: Professional, Student and Picture Book. For full details download our Call for Entries pdf, to enter go to our homepage.

Deadline: March 23, 2018