Thursday is the day when we usually post our best illustrators. Sometimes we spend time without finding them, do readings distracted and suddenly one day you find a story here or there illustrated with collages, black and white, that first view without knowing why, keep reading and go back to look again to continue reading, this time a little less and a little later again you end up looking just the illustrations he has stuck with twists, an irreverent graphic design.

You start to dig a little more about the author and discover that their pictures say much more about him than you thought at first: the author also revealed a day, or got tired and decided to resign from the routine, or just enjoy risk leaving their concerns and seek happiness elsewhere, and he went to London. Today I heard something on the radio that I have said several times, the people here are very sad, it's good to get out though because other countries are not substantially better, or it is not perceived, wear it otherwise and it is true, when I returned this fall of Grenoble I felt the same; the people are sad, can not be.

It happened to me that I was kept into the bottom of a dark cave. My mind was squashed under a mount of duties and worries. There was no room for any good idea. I was lost in that darkness. But one day I stepped out of that warren and walked up the stairs to the roof. That view was absolutely different. That new point of view changed everything. There was a new map over there.

Gregori Saavedra.

Well, on this way, I have  found one of our favorite Gregori Saavedra illustrators,  who moved to London four years ago and he became or simply he consolidated, who is today one of the best illustrators and directors creative (see his bio at the end of this article). We discovered that watching one of his first steps was frozen in a video Enjoy your worries. Anxieties nonconformists that you can still read on his works as main asset of his illustrations.

 

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Gregori Saavedra was born in Viladecans (Barcelona, SPAIN) in 1968. Graduated in Information Sciences by the University of Barcelona (SPAIN) in 1992. His professional career in advertising started at BDDP·Target as junior copywriter. Afterwards, he worked in four more agencies as creative director: Pongiluppi & Guimaraes, Valverde/De Miquel, J.Walter Thompson and Lorente Euro RSCG.

In 2003, after more than ten years in advertising, he decided to be freelance and explore some other disciplines like direction, illustration, design,... As director he was selected by MTV for the MTV Load Project (2005), selected director by RESFEST 2005 (By Design section), selected as one of the 10 Best New Directors by WEBCUTS BERLIN (2005) and also prized as Best Director by BD4D (By Designers For Designers) in 2006. His video work has been exhibited and showcased in several festivals like Prixars (France, 2005), LOOP (Spain, 2005), Square Eyes Festival (The Netherlands, 2006), DiBa (Spain, 2009) and it is part of the permanent collection at the Austin Digital Art Museum (USA).

As illustrator, Gregori Saavedra´s artwork has been published by Die Gestalten Verlag, IdN, PigMag, DPI Taiwan, Dazed and Confused, Time, Rojo, NEO2, Bis Publishers, Ling, Gustavo Gili, Actar, Die Ziet, Collins Design, New Graphic China, The Gutenberg’s Quarterly,... In 2007, the curators of ILLUSTRATIVE, the most important illustration international forum, selected him as one of the most relevant illustrators worldwide. Later on, in 2009, UNESCO granted his CODE prize to Gregori Saavedra as one of the 20 BEST ILLUSTRATORS OF THE YEAR.

Since 2010 he is stablished in London (UK).

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Published on: May 7, 2014
Cite: "Gregori Saavedra, Illustrator" METALOCUS. Accessed
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