Abu Dhabi International Book Fair - 2011

Last month, I was invited by Kitab to participate in Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2011, Illustrators' Corner. It was my first visit to the UAE where i was overwhelmed with the respect they showed me. It was an amazing experience that i will definitely repeat any other time.

The following are some photos from the opening of the illustrators' corner the first day of the fair.

Other illustrators checking the work i exhibited in the fair. Oliver and his students from Cartoon Network Academy watching some of my animation work.

Meeting the lovely Bea and Rosine from L'agenda Gulf that chose Haltabees as a cover for their march issue. Sulaf wrote an amazing article in L'agenda after reading Haltabees with her kids. Check it in here. Tx Sulaf and the boys :)

We filled the table in the Illustrators' corner with loads of illustrations and i had my portrait drawn by Omar Jaramillo :)

My lecture "The Making of Visual Art" that covers new forms of media in the visual art scene and talks about the relationship between the different types and how they are implemented.
Later, i had an amazing time with the kids reading the books and showing them some animations.

I shared as well some of the puppet making techniques i learned in different workshops with the illustrators and we did a spontaneous workshop for 2 days.

The festival organized a cruise tour in Abu Dhabi full of chats, food and trallala moments :)



In addition to the great lectures i attended and all the connections i made, i met some beautiful amazing friends that i will try to keep forever ...

Thanks for Kitab, Alexandra, Julia all the staff (except Erin Cox), for the amazing opportunity, and please meet the amazing illustrators and check their work:



7 comments:

  1. Hi David

    It was an immense pleasure to have you and all our amazing Illustartors at this year's book fair.

    We were overwhelmed by the response and by the energy that you all brought to that space. There was never a dull moment and the ambience was that of 'constant creativity' with intellectually cool people...

    We hope to see you all (and more of you) next year at the ADIBF 2012 :)
    Irum
    KITAB/ADIBF

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  2. Thanks Irum, i really hope we all meet again next year :)

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  3. Wonderful to meet you. Keep in touch!

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  4. David, this is an amazing report. I love your touch in everything you made and created. It is speechless how I met all great people there :{

    hope to meet you soon, and get inspired again.

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  5. david, I heart you, too.
    :)
    erin

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  6. Kate and Nasir, we will be in touch for sure !
    Erin, who r u ? :D love u girl !

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  7. hey David, great meeting you and the others, we have to do something together, there was a great energy in the group!

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