Farshid Mesghali

Farshid Mesghali (* July 1943 in Isfahan), Persian فرشید مثقالی, is an Iranian graphic designer and illustrator.

He graduated in 1960 to study painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University and then worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, such as in 1964 for the magazine Negin. There followed several picture books, including The Little Black Fish by Samad Behrangi, for on the children's book fair in Bologna in 1969, he received an award.

From 1968 to 1970 he created picture books for the Institute for the intellectual development of children and adolescents. In this Institute he founded together with Arapic Baghdasarian a department for cartoons and created henceforth even some animated films. Between 1970 and 1978 Mesghali was also Head of the Department of Fine Arts of the Institute.

In 1974 he won for his picture books the Hans Christian Andersen Award as an illustrator.

In 1979 he moved to Paris to customize there for four years sculptures and paintings which were exhibited in the Gallery Sammy King. From 1986 to 1997 he lived in the United States and created in a separate Studio ( Desktop Studio in Los Angeles) digital art. Since then he has been living in Tehran.

In 2007 he was honored by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations ( Icograda ) with an award for his life's work.

Works

• Amou Nowruz ( " New Year's Uncle " )
• King Jamshid
• The little black fish
• City of the Snakes
• The blue-eyed coast
• The lizard in my room
• Arash, the archer
• The hedgehog, my doll and I
• The moonlight seems