no. 65

SELECTED BYMAJID ABBASIKORANIC EXEMPLAILLUSTRATED BYMORTEZA MOMAYEZ

Morteza Momayez (1936–2005) is undoubtedly Iran’s founder of modern graphic design and illustration. In addition to creating immortal works of graphic design, such as great posters, gorgeous logos and logotypes, and book covers, he also bequeathed brilliant illustrations that are rare and matchless on their own account, and whose effects on his generation and other generations to come are beyond doubt.

By reviewing the illustrations at the early Qajar dynasty, which were made for different lithographic print books, it appears that for the first time, the cornerstones of illustration formed at that period in a primitive way from common painting of the time. Iranian illustration ...

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