Yawad Takyoo

By LatAm ARTE

He was born in Mashhad in 1985. He currently lives in Lahijan, a beautiful city in the north of Iran. He is a cartoonist and designer, he continued his career as a professional draftsman and painter since 2000 and started learning design and painting academically. He began working as a press cartoonist in the weekly Lahijan. He has been working with several popular national newspapers like “Etemad”, “Jamjam”, “Nishjat”, “Arman Meli” and so on for 14 years. Yawad began learning ceramics academically at Mazandaran University in 2012 and graduated in traditional Iranian glazing. His goal was to study classical Iranian art and combine it with contemporary approaches to art, that is, hermeneutics, to create a new experience. Takyoo was a founding member of the Guilan cartoon association and a member of its board of directors since 2011. He was also twice artistic secretary of the "Afdesta" international cartoon competition and a jury member of the "Kosovo" international cartoon competition. ; He also participated in various cartoon competitions and won numerous awards in Germany, Serbia, South Korea, India, Colombia, Romania and Turkey. In 2009, Takyoo was named one of the top 10 cartoonists by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. ...more ...less