Celsius Pictor

Profile

Art Director and illustrator based in Spain specialized in collage, illustration and digital art. He has collaborated with companies and clients around the world such as: AMAZON, SMYTHSON, GOYARD, PEDRO DEL HIERRO, SAMSUNG, SANTANDER BANK, NIVEA, AFAMIA, FOUNDERS ORIGINAL, PETRONI, VIHNOS DO PICO, ARTE.TV, among others, serving as a creative art director in multiple projects in Spain, UK, France, Portugal, Toronto, Serbia, Syria, Suiza, etc, developing illustration, animation and execution. He has some publications in magazines and newspapers such as: ARABNEWS (Saudi Arabia), AL MAJALLA magazine (London), FORBES (Spain) or JOTDOWN (Spain), among others. He has also published 4 illustrated books in Spain and the United Kingdom and has made dozens of covers for adult novels and essay books. Celsius Pictor was the winner of the award for best advertising illustrator of the year by the Association of Illustrators of Spain APIM in 2022 and 2020. He received the LAUS Bronze Award in Packaging 2018 and was the winner of Gold in Packaging at the Vertex Awards 2016. He has been selected for 3 consecutive years by the World Illustration Awards (2020 / 2021 / 2022) in the UK. Selected 2 consecutive years as part of Latin American Illustration No7 & LAI8. Also, he has given talks and workshops throughout Spain and was invited to participate as an opening speaker at the First World Collage Meeting in Santiago de Chile 2022. He has been part of various exhibitions inside and outside of Spain and he was director and curator of the collective illustration exhibition The Polyptych of the Enlightened, organized in Madrid in parallel to the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, with more than 20 thousand visits in 15 days. He is a professor of Illustration and Visual Storytelling in the Fine Arts Degree and in the Animation Master's Degree at the TAI School since 2018.