Narges Zayani

Master of Fine Arts & Graphic Design

2010 - 2013

Soore University, Tehran, Iran

Bachelor of Fine Arts & Graphic Design

2007 - 2010

Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Eight selected and displayed book cover designs and illustrations, International Cow Festival,Poland, 2013 and 2015

Record eight book cover design in the archive of the Iranian Graphic Museum

Reporting and displaying parts of the Chehregan exhibition on the site of the Graphic Designers Association of Iran, Rang Magazine and Roozrang, 2017

Selected designer in the first and the second annual book designers of Iran book House, 2016 and 2017

Selected poster of Ashura, the mournful competition of Sarv(cedar), Tehran municipality, 2013

Participating in biennial graphic design- silver cedar,2017 & 2019

Conducting a solo exhibition featuring 3 years of designing book covers at the Saba Cultural-Artistic Institute (Academy of Art), Tehran, 2017

Conducting a solo exhibition on Experimental Series Using the Miniatures of Persian paintings, Hozeye Honari of Fars (Institute of art), Shiraz, 2014

Poster Individual Exposition with Approach to Safavid’s page design, the Visal Shiraz Gallery, Shiraz, 2013

Holding Dual Exhibition book Covers and Posters Design, Saba Cultural-Artistic Institute (Academy of Art), Tehran, 2014

Participation in group exhibition of Illustrations, titled Cow Festival, Ukraine, 2013 & 1015

Holding group exhibition of book cover design, Saba Academy of Art, Tehran, 2016 & 2017

Participation in group exhibition of typography, Zinat olmolk Museum, Shiraz, 2010

Collaboration in Book Cover and Layout Design with well-known publications:

2010 - Present

Neyestan Book(December 2012-today), Fabak(April 2021- today) Ketabsaraye tandis(May 2018-today), Muhenna( May 2018- today), Baya( June 2019-February 2020), Heirat Literary and Artistic Society(November 2019-May 2019), Research institute of Islamic culture and thought(September 2020- today), Qoqnoos(March 2012-2018), Amirkabir (September 2015-2018) and Novin ketabe gooya (December 2014- April 2016)

• Design over 180 books in total.
• Artistic director of many projects

Other experiences in graphic design

2016 - present

Tehran, Iran

• Cooperation with Graphic Museum of Iran as a artistic manager in setting up an exhibition, 2022-present.
• Cooperation with Shadamin Shiraz Company in the field of packaging, December 2020-2021.

Academic Activities

• Writing an article titled “Pathology of Graphic Arts in technical and vocational schools in recent years” published in the fourth edition of the Neshane Ordibehesht pub. (Specialty Magazine of the Graphic Designers Association), 2014
• Translation of an article titled “First, the idea, then a language between 1930s and 1968 in Italy” published in the fourth edition of the Neshane Ordibehesht pub. (Specialty Magazine of the Graphic Designers Association), 2014
• Radio Interview in the Publishing Industry Program on the occasion of the Exclusive Book Fair on Radio Economics, 2014
• Lecture on the occasion of Book Week with the subject of reviewing book covers in Iran at Hozeye Honari of Fars (Institute of art), 2013