Isidro Ferrer
Isidro Ferrer is an illustrator and graphic designer who originally graduated in Drama and Set Design. Ferrer acted for various theater companies in the 80s, but after an accident with long rehabilitation, he left the stage to discover graphic communication. His early professional in design was as an illustrator for the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón in 1988. Soon after Ferrer completed graphic training in Barcelona and since elevated himself high on the national and international scene.
In 1989 he created, together with three other professionals, the Chameleon Studio Zaragoza and began to reap various awards, such as the Ministry of Culture at the best edited (1993) by The Flight of Reason Book: A vision of Goya.
Since 1996 he works in his own studio in Huesca with important commissions for publishing groups such as Santillana, Alfaguara, and daily El Pais.
Since 2000 a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and in the same year his work appeared in Signs exposure of the Century. Soon after, in 2002, he received the National Design Prize awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The award was presented by King Juan Carlos I to Isidro Ferrer who showed his opposition to the Iraq War by reading an antiwar poem and was applauded, among others, by the king himself, as picked up the newspaper El Mundo. In addition, in 2006 he won the National Award for the best children's and youth artwork Ministry of Education and Culture for A House for Grandpa.
—from "History of Graphic Design", https://www.historygraphicdesign.com/…/nat…/883-isidro-ferrer
