Francesca Cosanti

Biography

Born in Martina Franca (TA) on the 3rd July 1985, she gets a diploma at Liceo Scientifico “E.Fermi” in her town, after that she attends the Multimedia Illustration and Animation Course at Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. Later she attends an illustration course at Officina b5 - Accademy of illustration in Rome and some intensive illustration courses with international famous illustrators. She works as an illustrator from 2005 and at the same time she teaches in various schools as an expert of illustration, tecniques, graphic design and multimedia softwares. In 2007 she wins the First Prize for the Logo of the “”Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Dipartimento per le Politiche Comunitarie””. In 2009 hers illustration “Tutti in strada” is selected as winner of the contest, announced from the Regione Puglia for the road safety. She publishes 5 illustrated books with Patakis Publisher (Atene-Greece) and 2, as author and illustrator, with Aracari Verlag (Zurich - Switzerland). In 2012 she realizes some illustrations for two advertising campaigns for Legambiente: “”Superhub”” and “”Con stile”” (the latter is selected for the Premio Agorà as the best social campaign in the Regione Lombardia) and she begins her collaboration with Mondadori Education. From 2014, every year, she draws the poster for the Festival della Valle D’Itria (internationally renowned Opera Festival). From autumn 2015 she starts a collaboration with Kalimat Publishing that in 2016 published her 2 books. From 2016 she works with Edizioni White Star Kids too that has published her 2 new books in the autumn 2017 and cooperates with the american magazine Artisan Spirit Magazine. In 2017 she starts to work on a new project for an illustrated book with Al-Hadaek Group (Beirut - Lebanon)too. This project will published in 2018 and in the same year will published 3 new books with White Star Kids. At present she works as an illustrator for publishing and advertising, for associations, companies and agencies and, in free time, she dedicates herself to her passions: travels, food, swim, books, photography and long walks.