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Fernando Cobelo is a Venezuelan illustrator based in Turin (Italy), known for his clean, defined, essential and sometimes even childish illustrations. Fernando depicts universes full of surreal dreams and vivid nightmares that trigger our thoughts and move our feelings, with naive lines in which it might be easy finding fragments of ourselves.
This emotional approach has given Fernando the opportunity to work with clients such as The New York Times, The United Nations, Google, Penguin / Random House, TED, Walt Disney Studios, Corriere della Sera, UNICEF, Vanity Fair, Lavazza, Huawei, Lonely Planet, Zanichelli, Swatch, Barilla, National Chamber of Italian Fashion, and WeTransfer. Moreover, his work has been recognized by The Association of Illustrators, Autori di Immagini, American Illustration, among other important illustration bodies.
In the educational field, Fernando has taught in some Italian institutes like IED, LUISS and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and has held different didactic activities in some other international universities in Mexico, India, Russia, China, Venezuela, Bulgaria and Turkey.

AWARDS:

– AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 39 (2020)
Chosen winner for El Misterio de Santa Caterina

– WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS (2020)
Selected in the Advertising category for Lavazza SDG Project
Selected in the Science & Technology category for Zanichelli 2020 Covers

– CREATIVE QUARTERLY (2020)
Runner up in the Professional Illustration category for Lavazza SDG Project

– AUTORI DI IMMAGINI (2020)
Selected project for Annual (Science & Didactics) for Zanichelli 2020 Covers
Selected project for Annual (Magazine) for Abitare Magazine
Selected project for Annual (Advertising & Design) for UNICEF project
Selected project for Annual (Advertising & Design) for Mural Bertino Arch.
Selected project for Annual (Personal Projects) for Migrations
Selected project for Annual (Personal Projects) for Mi Casa es Mi Casa

– CHELTENHAM ILLUSTRATION AWARDS (2019)
Selected winner for Annual & Exhibition for UNICEF project

– POSTERHEROES (2019)
Selected winner for Integration is Key to Education

– PREMIO ILLUSTRI (2019)
Selected project for Annual (Design) for Sardina DIY Lomography
Selected project for Annual (Magazine e Quotidiani) for Feel Desain Mag

– 3X3 PROFESSIONAL SHOW (2019)
Merit and Annual (Books and covers) for Solitudine Fantastica
Honorable Mention (Editorial) for Man vs. Nature
Honorable Mention (Editorial) for Migrations

– SERGIO FEDRIANI AWARD (2019)
1st Place for Migrations

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

– LA CASITA
2019, solo show, Galeria Matraca, Málaga

– JUST HUMANS
2019, Museo Egizio, Turin

– MIGRATIONS
2019, Cineteca Nacional de Chile

– AIUOLA
2018, solo show, Palazzo Birago, Turin

– CLOSENESS
2017, solo show, Lazaretto di Cagliari

– CONSCIOUS DIALOGUES
2017, with Nicolò Canova, Serra Madre, Rome