Alexandra Falagara, freelance illustrator and designer based in Stockholm, Sweden: I try to find a non-ordinary way of telling stories using simple means. My illustrations are often idea based an correspond to their context with unexpected twists and metaphores (poetic, stunning, smart or fun). I prefer to focus on the content of my pictures rather than the style – still my illustrations are easy to spot in their sharp minimalism.
Many of the pictures shown in this site are made for magazines, thus »quick consumption«. I wish to work more with prolonged pictures made for »slow reading« (e.g. in books and other slow medias) and I'm sure that my pictures then would be quite different in their expression.
In 2007 I graduated from Konstfack, University College of Arts, Craft and Design with a MFA in Graphic Design & Illustration.
Konstfack is also where I worked as a teaching assistant through out the academic year 07/08. This work involved pedagogical elements – theoretical as well as practical.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Arena / Axess Magasin / Bang / Dagens Nyheter / Gringo / Kulturtidningen / the Ministry of Finance / Ordfront Magasin / Rum / Svenska Dagbladet / Söderströms Förlag / Åsa Jungnelius
PUBLICATIONS
2007 Foreword in Swedish Illustration, Arvinius Förlag
2007 Tecknarens Manifest, degree project
LECTURES
2008 Working with Tecknarens Manifest, Illustratörcentrum
2007 Research Methodology, Konstfack
2007 Style vs Content, Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan
GRANTS
2008 Cultural Grant, The City of Stockholm / Stockholms Stads Kulturstipendium
2007 Konstfack's Foundation
2006 Beata Brummer's Foundation
2002 Beata Brummer's Foundation