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Bijan Sayfouri, a graphic designer, art director, photographer, visual artist, writer and an academician, was born on 6th of May 1968 in Kurdistan, Iran. After starting to study visual communications in University of Tehran, he began his professional life in 1988 in his studio in Tehran.
Sayfouri is known in the realm of graphic design for his innovative and unique style in using Iranian typography. Throughout his career, he has directed and designed for hundreds of cultural and artistic projects and his designs have contributed to a lot of publications. He has also been part of the jury team for several art and design programs and has curated many events. Sayfouri has recently founded and has been the art director for Me Foundation, a design foundation based in Milan. Furthermore, he has been a member of the jury at Mut Zur Wut, the International Poster Exhibition in Germany. In 2011 he unveiled General Defection, a collection that broke the sales record at the Contemporary Photography auction held at Bonhams. This series was later presented at various exhibitions and auctions such as Christie’s, Art Dubai, Tehran Auction, Paris Photo, and Art Ankara. General Defection is a conceptual collection inspired by Iranian gnostic literature rooted in Rumi’s philosophy.
European critics called it a retrieval of graphic arts in today’s technologic era.
His art and design has been presented in many exhibitions, museums, galleries, collections, websites, books and magazines both in Iran and internationally in Germany, France, Poland, China, Russia, Czech Republic, Italy, Ukraine, Japan, India, Qatar, Hong Kong, Slovakia, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, USA, Cyprus, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Afghanistan, Belgium, Pakistan, Peru, Maxico, Turkey and Canada.