Commissioned |
ProfessionalWhy did you make this work:
Salute is a periodical about health and medical topics distributed with La Repubblica. The cover illustration and the internal spreads illustrations were made to explain how the COVID virus works and spreads.
How was the illustration used: Cover and internal spreads illustrations.
How did you make this work: These drawings are made by ink with the style of old anatomical and medical illustrations.
Commissioner Name :
Francesco Franchi
Commissioner Company :
La Repubblica (GEDI group)
Social Media:instagram.com/elisaseitzinger
Biography:
Elisa Seitzinger lives in Turin, where she works as an illustrator, visual artist and professor of morphology and dynamics of the forms at the European Institute of Design.
She studied Illustration and Art History in Florence, Atlanta, Nice and London.
Her path, inspired by the stylistic codes of classical art, sacred and courteous medieval art, primitive painting, Russian icons and Byzantine mosaics, always starts from the ink drawing, pursuing a two-dimensionality and a stillness with a strong symbolic charge .
Winner of the 2018 Illustri Award - Design category and selected at the Festival of the same name in 2019, bronze medal 2020 for Authors of Images and selected at the annual exhibition of the Society of Illustrators at the Illustration Museum in New York, she exhibited at the Museum of Applied Arts Today in Turin, at the Le Dictateur gallery inside Futurdome in Milan, at MUSES in Savigliano, at the Oriani Library in Ravenna, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and at the Farnesina in Rome, at Studio 59 in London, at the NOI Gallery in Paris and she has been invited as a guest to numerous visual arts festivals, including Italianism, Graphic Days, Ink Festival, Pawchewgo.
He has worked and still works for La Repubblica, L'Espresso, Il Sole 24ore, Rolling Stone, RAI, BBC, National Geographic, Warner Music Group, Adobe, Spotify, Apple Music, Taschen, Fandango, Codice Edizioni, Mondadori, Sabat Magazine, Favini, Barilla, Vantguard, Bulgari, Etro, Kristina Ti.