Women artists, for a project to promote gender equality and the role of women in the coffee supply chain.
Nazanin Rastan, Costanza Ciattini e Camilla Cataldo are three women who are very different but who have one thing in common: a willingness to tell with their art the need and necessity to bring out female figures in society, and they do so through art, which once again aids storytelling, expresses and puts something very important in front of everyone’s eyes: the truth.
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Nazanin Rastan
Nazanin Rastan aka Mafreshou, is an Iranian illustrator based in Florence, Italy. He studied graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
He creates illustrations using different techniques: watercolor, etching and engraving then transforming his works into digital versions. Over the years he has published in several magazines and worked for Vice Italia, Burberry and Gucci.
Costanza Ciattini
Costanza, a freelancer based in Florence is a design graduate from ISIA Florence. In addition to doing booth and set design with Elisabetta Nazzi Atelier, she creates artwork using the three-dimensional collage technique.
Over the years he has exhibited his works at Cartavetra Gallery, Student Hotel and for private events. He has also created illustrations for magazines and independent books.
Camila Cataldo
Camila Cataldo was born in Argentina in 1993. Freelance graphic designer and illustrator, based in Florence.
He studied Graphic Design at FADU University in Buenos Aires and after graduation attended an Art Course at the Leonardo da Vinci Art Academy in Florence.
Always loved Design & Art, inspired by flowers, summer, travel, books and music.
Alliana Cortez
Alliana Cortez aka thecandyshake, is a self-taught freelance illustrator. Born in the Philippines, she grew up in Florence and works in Milan.
She has always cultivated a passion for drawing, creating work with both traditional techniques such as gouache and acrylic and digital techniques.
In addition to producing graphics such as logos and digital content for small businesses and emerging brands, she creates illustrations with the subject matter of the female world. She is inspired by fashion, design and travel with references to Filipino and Italian culture.
Luchadora
Alessandra Marianelli, aka Luchadora (a stage name inspired by Mexican wrestlers, of whom she has always found extremely fascinating the cheerfulness of the colors, imagination and energy their masks convey), was born and raised in the hills of Tuscany; at the age of 20, she moved to Florence, where she studied design and where she began working as a freelancer.
“Shapes” are the basis of her illustrations: excessive, round and sinuous, the shapes fill the spaces with color and give harmony.
Baba
Baba was born in Florence and creates graphite and digital illustrations, with a focus on publishing.
She studied advertising graphics at the Art Institute of Porta Romana in her city, specializing later in entertnaiment design.
She is characterized by essential illustration, with simple lines but with a strong impact.
Claudia Bessi
Claudia is an illustrator and graphic designer. Her interest and passion for the culinary world leads her to work mainly with brands and projects related to this theme, in Italy and the United States.
Her studio Alterama, founded together with 11 other freelance colleagues in the field of visual and sound design, is located in Florence.
Bianca_bou
Bianca_bou is a Florentine based in Milan. After working for years as a photographer, she decided to turn her passion for drawing into a job and since 2016 has dedicated herself exclusively to illustration. She loves portraying the female universe immersed in naturalistic environments. She prefers digital illustration and her works are characterised by saturated colours and contrasts.
