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About Morteza Farahnak : During his childhood, he was always interested in visual things, such as colorful toys, moving billboards, paintings and etc. He was one of the bests in painting course in elementary school. He started Art from high-school when he registered in Cameraman major. After high-school, he entered to Soroush Technical University in Isfahan to study Graphic design. during last year of education, He started working as a Graphic designer in Hebe company. As he graduated Graphic design in 2010, he left Hebe company and start working as a freelance graphic designer in Qom. Since then, he worked with different projects and has participated in many national and international poster exhibitions. In 2011 he won second prize of International HIV poster competition in Skopje/Macedonia. Starting his Bachelors at Islamic Azad university made him stop hard working, but he won First place of 11th Biennial of Qom's Graphic Designers, and was invited to Dumlupinar University/Kutahya/Turkey to participate in a Poster exhibition and two workshops. He gained B.A in Graphic design in 2014 and started hard working again. In 2014, he established Designers Building and started bigger projects. As a young graphic designer, he loves to learn new things in the world of graphic design, therefore he has been trying to participate in different workshops; until now he has met great designers such as Finn Nygaard from Denmark ,Piotr Kunce from Poland, Alexander and Svetlana Faldin from Russia Ali Tomak, Yosef Kes, Ali Can Metin, Cem Cara from Turkey, and Masoud Nejabati, Farzad Adibi, Mehrnoosh Moshiri, Mohammad Ardalani, Majid Kashani from Iran.
STATEMENT OF ART:
A design must be logical, but Art comes from our soul.

ORGANIZATION:
Basalam social marketplace

EDUCATION:
2014, Graphic Design and Illustration, BA, Islamic Azad University branch of Qom, Iran.

EXPERIENCE:
2010 - 2018, Freelance Graphic Designer at the home office.
2018, Graphic Designer at Raimon creative solutions.
2018, Creative Designer at Fourmind advertising agency.
2018 - 2020 Freelance Graphic Designer at the home office.
2020 - Present, Product Graphic Designer at Basalam social marketplace.

PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
2017, Morteza Farahnak's poster exhibition in Cafe Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2011, "The Pause", Soore Gallery, Alborz/Iran.
2011, "Five Generations of Ashoora posters", Imam Ali Museum, Tehran/Iran.
2012, "Segunda llamada", José Luis Cuevas Gallery,Mexico city/Mexico.
2012, "Prevention of violence", Ataturk university, Erzurum/Turkey.
2012, "Free Posters", Aftab Gallery, Tehran/Iran.
2013, "Iranian student poster exhibition", Dumlupinar faculty of Fine Arts, Kutahya/Turkey.
2013, "6th United Designs", Saint Luis Fine Arts university, Missouri/USA.
2014, "Open Interpretation", Afdesta Gallery, Shiraz/Iran.
2014, "7th United Designs", Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai/China.

EVENTS:
2014, Visual Identity designer of World Graphic Day international poster exhibition, Tehran Artistic Scope, Tehran/Iran.
2019, Art Director and Graphic designer of 21st Qom province Theater Festival.

AWARDS:
2011,Second Prize in 4th International Student Poster Competition Skopje, Macedonia.
2012, First Place in 12th Biennial of Graphic Designers of Qom, Iran.
2015, Bronze A’ Design Award winner in Graphics and Visual Communication design category, Italy.
2017, First Prize,37th Fadjr International Theater Festival winner in the poster category. Iran.
2020, Chosen in special section “40years Tehran” in 17th Tassvir Sal festival, Iran.

PRESS APPEARANCES:
2011,"Hope Knows No Borders", Twisted Manga electronic magazine, 21 September, Mexico City/Mexico.
2012,"Four Persians In Turkey Exhibition", Etemad newspaper, 30 June, Tehran/Iran.
2012,"Qom branch student success in International Festival", Farhikhtegan newspaper, Tehran/Iran.

ACCOLADES:
2016, Superior Youth of Qom-Iran in the index of “Active youth in the Field of Culture and Art” in 6th AliAkbar Festival, Iran.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Persian (Native), English (Advanced)

COMPUTER LITERACY:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma,

COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
I participated in many workshops and learn from great designers such as Finn Nygaard from Denmark, Piotr Kunce from Poland, Stephan Bundi from Switzerland, Studio Faldin from Russia, Studio Noviki from Poland, Ali Tomak, Yosef Kes, Ali Can Metin and Cem Cara from Turkey.

SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES::
2013, Gave a speech about “Ashoora posters” at Tehran Art University.
2013, Invited as an Iranian young designer in a poster exhibition and two workshops, Dumlupinar University, Kutahya-Turkey.
2017, Invited teacher to held a workshop about Minimal Thinking in Graphic Design at University of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
2014-2016, Member of Executive team at Graphic Designers Association of Qom/Iran

JURY MEMBERSHIPS:
2019, Jury Member in the poster category of 21st Qom province Theater Festival.

HOBBIES:
Antique Collector, Traveling, Playing traditional music,

CLIENTELE:
Iran National Standards Organization, Tehran Beautification Organization, Tehran Artistic Scope, Qom IRIB, Qom Visual Arts Association, Qom Dramatic Arts Association, Fourmind Advertising Agency, Emrooz Theatre Group, and etc.

WEB SITE:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/morteza-farahnak-88230
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PORTFOLIO URL:
https://www.instagram.com/m.farahnak.designs/

REGISTRATION DATE:
2015-01-03 15:42:37

COUNTRY/REGION:
Iran

ACCOUNT TYPE:
Young

Awards received by Morteza Farahnak


World Graphic Day Poster Exhibition Visual Identity

Bronze A' Design Award Winner for Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Category in 2014
Morteza Farahnak for Tehran Artistic Scope



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