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Contact:
To get in touch, please email in English or German to mail@francescociccolella.com
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About:
Francesco Ciccolella, born in Salzburg in 1990, is an illustrator, graphic artist, and visual storyteller.
His illustrations have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Die Zeit or Der Spiegel, as well as on book covers published by HarperCollins, Planeta, and Hanser. He has collaborated with brands including Apple, Google, and the International Olympic Committee.
Francesco’s illustrations convey meaning, communicate ideas and tell stories. Renowned for his unique blend of wit and simplicity in form, he has earned prestigious recognition, including a Joseph Binder Award and a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York.
His most recent publications include Between The Lines (2023), an autobiographical visual essay, and Wien (2021), a perennial calendar.
Since graduating from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, he has maintained a practice between commissioned and self-initiated work, developing a distinctive, yet eclectic, visual language of his own.
He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Clients:
Editorial & Publishing: The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Wired, TIME, The Economist, The Financial Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Observer, Fast Company, The Boston Globe, Welt am Sonntag, Inc Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Monocle, Los Angeles Times, Focus, Corriere Della Sera, Courrier International, Handelsblatt, de Volkskrant, MIT Technology Review, Johns Hopkins Health Review, Enorm, Zeit Campus, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Psychologie Heute, Brummell, Der Standard, WirtschaftsWoche, CRAFTS, Datum, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hanser, Rizzoli Libri, Planeta, Oxford University Press, ...
Corporate & Advertising: IBM, Apple, International Olympic Commitee, Google, Lufthansa, Jins, Bene, Pfizer, Diakonie Deutschland, Miles&More, Café Prückel, Bank of America, SNCF, Wing, City of Parma, Deutsches Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, Invesco, Wien Museum, Unicancer, Groupama, American Airlines, Austrian Science Fund, Vienna International Airport, SOS Kinderdorf Stiftung, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Biennale Archiv Austria, SVA, University of Applied Arts Vienna, ...
Exhibitions:
Like Boiling Ice
2025, L44 Space, Sofia, Bulgaria
Musik im Fokus (Group)
2023, Langenzersdorf Museum, Austria
Power in numbers (Group)
2021, Gallery Nucleus, Portland, US
Oasis (Group)
2021, Palais – Galerie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Modern Love
2018, Sergeant Paper Gallery, Paris, France
Alternate Realities
2017, Vienna Design Week, T/abor, Vienna, Austria
At first sight. Young illustration from Vienna (Group)
2015, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
Books:
Between The Lines
Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023
ISBN 978-3-99153-049-7
Wien (Calendar)
Pool Publishing, 2021
ISBN 978-3-903572-61-4
Mark Twain: Aus den Erinnerungen von Adam und Eva
Written by Andreas Thalmayr alias Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hanser, 2019
ISBN 978-3-446-26246-1
Talks:
Talk / Adobe Create Now
2024, Vienna, Austria
Talk / University Of Applied Arts Vienna / Institute of Design
2022, Vienna, Austria
Talk / University Of The Arts London / Camberwell College Of Arts
2022, Virtual
Workshop / Das Politische und das Private / START / Kunsthalle Wien
2016, Vienna, Austria
Recognition:
Society of Illustrators 2022
Illustrators 65, Silver Medal
American Illustration 2022
AI 41, Chosen Winner
American Illustration 2021
AI 40, Chosen Winner
American Illustration 2020
AI 39, Chosen Winner
SND Awards 2019
Award of Excellence, Illustration
American Illustration 2019
AI 38, Chosen Winner
ADC New York 2018
Merit Award, Illustration
ADC Germany 2018
Bronze Winner, Cover
American Illustration 2018
AI 37, Selected Winner
iF Design Award 2018
Discipline Communication
CCA Award 2018
Bronze Winner, Illustration
Red Dot Award 2017
Best of the best, Illustration
ADC Germany 2017
Auszeichnung, Illustration
American Illustration 2017
AI 36, Chosen Winner
CCA Award 2017
Bronze Winner, Illustration
Joseph Binder Award 2016
Bronze Winner, Illustration
3x3 Magazine Show 2015
Honorable Mention
Press:
Podcast Francesco Ciccolella
Ohne den Hype, 2024
By Sven Saro
Interview Francesco Ciccolella
Les Nouveaux Riches, 2023
By Daniel Lichterwaldt
Ten Questions for Francesco Ciccolella
Vienna Intl., 2023
By Robert Seydel
Smarter Minimalist
art – Das Kunstmagazin, 2022
By Almuth Spiegler
Francesco Ciccolella
Creatiview, 2020
By Sam Asplen
The DART Interview
AI-AP Design Arts Daily, 2020
By Peggy Roalf
Visão poética
Revista Decor, 2018
By Adriane Oliveira
Il design della post-verità
TGCOM, 2017
By Mila Cataldo
Alternate Realities
Creativeboom, 2017
By Katy Cowan
Vienna Design Week 2017
Domus, 2017
By Elisabetta Carboni and Bruno Melis
Illustrations about the Perception of Reality and Facts
Fubiz, 2017
By Costanza Spina
Gestaltete Stadt: Vienna Design Week 2017
Die Presse, 2017
By Norbert Philipp
Wie man Schwäche so stark wie farbenprächtig inszeniert
Page Online, 2017
By Sabine Danek
Conceptual Illustrations that get political
Creativeboom, 2016
By Katy Cowan
Der zugespitzte Zeichenstift
Die Presse, 2015
By Norbert Philipp
Il concettualismo viennese di Francesco Ciccolella
Picame, 2015
By Bruno Depetris