Virginia Mori

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Virginia is an Illustrator and Animation director based in Milan and Pesaro. She studied animation and design at the State Art Institute in Urbino. During this time she nurtured and honed her distinctive artistic imagination. Virgina's favourite media are pencil, ink, and ballpoint pen on paper. In 2008 she won the “SRG Idee Suisse” prize at the “Annecy Call for Project” during the International Festival of Animation at Annecy, France. This enabled her to produce her first short film, “il gioco del silenzio” (“The Play of Silence”), which has won nominations and accolades at international events, launching her career as an illustrator and director of animated shorts. Virginia' clients include galleries like Withstand (Milan), for whom she created the illustrations for the video “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967” by John Mayer, directed by Virgilio Villoresi and the animated book “Vento”, Blu Gallery (Bologna). Other clients inckude Fendi (Rome), Valentino (Milan), Galleria Disastro (Milan) and 25Films (Paris), Club Sensible Gallery (Paris), Pelledoca editore, Penguin Random House (Spain), Edizioni EL, Vogue Arts, Gucci, Feltrinelli editore, Bollati e Boringhieri, Mini, Sammontana, Film Tv magazine, and various others.