International Day Against the Death Penalty

Due to some unexpected events, I ended up having to take over from another illustrator for this month's calendar illustration for COSV. This turned out to be my favorite to illustrate so I'm glad to have gotten the chance to work on this another month, and would like to give another shout-out to the other illustrators on this project: Rafic Saab, Armine Seferian, Hanane Kai, and Joseph Kai. I'd also like to thank COSV again for the really good experience working with them as well as all their efforts relating to drawing attention to illustration in the rest of the region.

If you click on the image above, it's at a resolution high enough for use as a desktop background as well as print.

International Day of Democracy

This is another calendar illustration I worked on with COSV celebrating the International Day of Democracy. As this is the last one I'll be contributing to this particular calendar, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone at COSV again for a really smooth and fun work process. I'd also like to give a shout-out to the other illustrators also working on this: Rafic Saab, Armine Seferian, Hanane Kai, and Joseph Kai.

The version of this image without text also looks pretty good so here it is as a desktop background:

If you click on the image at the beginning of this post, it's also in a resolution suitable for a screen and this image below is printable:

However Silenced...

This is the second image I worked on for the illustrated calendar project with COSV for the World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd. It can be downloaded for a screen background here, at a printable resolution here and the press-statement that it is launched with (in Italian) can be found here.

World Press Freedom Day has been established by the United Nations General Assembly on May 3^rd  to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

Together with the press agency IPS and the comic publisher Becco Giallo, COSV celebrates 2011 World Press Freedom Day with May Calendar this illustration, an original graphic novel by Becco Giallo online tomorrow on COSV and IPS websites and reports on Press Freedom (and the lack of it) around the world on www.ipsnews.net - www.ipsnotizie.it .

Updates on Facebook/COSV – Soldiarietà italiana nel Mondo 

Thanks again to the people over at COSV for being great to work with.

World Day of Social Justice

This is an image drawn for a collective project worked on in collaboration with COSV (www.cosv.org). It's part of an illustrated calendar where the image for each month represents a day celebrating a human right.

This illustration can be downloaded as a desktop background here:

http://www.cosv.org/public/download/February2011.jpg

And in high resolution here:

http://www.cosv.org/public/download/February2011_HR.jpg



I'd like to add that the folks over at COSV are some of the nicest people I ever had the pleasure to meet.