What If The Snowman Won`t Melt?
Posted on September 10, 2014 in Translated Books
“Book of the Month” Selected by German Academy for Children’s Literature, May 2013
“I’m happy and honored that the present book has become a window through which I can interact with my young friends in Switzerland and can greet every single one of them whose love and kindness is not encircled by boarders.”
In a small town, the kids try to build the biggest snowman that any one has ever seen!
After they finally finish the job, they invite their families and friends to come and see the biggest snowman that they have built.
The next day when people wake up, they find out that they all should be at the service of this big creature and obey whatever he demands…
Then when it comes the time for spring to enter the town and the Sun to shine, the snowman resists …
DER GROSSE SCHNEEMANN
Posted on September 10, 2014 in Translated Books
“Book of the Month” Selected by German Academy for Children’s Literature, May 2013
“I’m happy and honored that the present book has become a window through which I can interact with my young friends in Switzerland and can greet every single one of them whose love and kindness is not encircled by boarders.”
In a small town, the kids try to build the biggest snowman that any one has ever seen!
After they finally finish the job, they invite their families and friends to come and see the biggest snowman that they have built.
The next day when people wake up, they find out that they all should be at the service of this big creature and obey whatever he demands…
Then when it comes the time for spring to enter the town and the Sun to shine, the snowman resists …
IN THE TWINKLING OF AN AYE
Posted on September 10, 2014 in Translated Books
6th Edition, Sold Over 17000 Copies
The story begins when Zinat, a well-known dancer and prostitute, meets the man she has been expecting to see. This takes place finally after about ten years. But though she knows haji Amin from the past and is prepared to meet him, haji Amin is absolutely stunned in the very first few moments of their visit. Some of the major events are revealed through the letters written between two of the major characters, Kamran and Zinat, and the characterization and the incidents are depicted in this manner within the intertwined plot of the novel. Haji Amin is Kamran’s father and has lost trace of his only son since years ago and all his efforts for finding him or even getting any news about him has been in vain all through. How could he ever imagine that Zinat, the young dancer and prostitute he knew in old days and has now indeed transformed in all aspects, has saved his wandering and so-called insane son and supported him just as his real mother and been in touch with Kamran until the very last moment of his life?! There is a lot to say and ask about the ten years which has seen many changes, but how can haji Amin understand and compensate for the lost years, in addition to his misbehavior towards his son and family. It is too late or has Zinat somehow filled in this gap for him?! And is there any chance that haji Amin could see his son at least just once more? Zinat knows how to speak and keeps him waiting while all through haji Amin finds a rare and exceptional opportunity to think about himself and what he has done with his life…
Another Tempest is on its Way is Seyyed Mehdi Shojaee’s latest novel. This story faced a high variety of different and controversial criticisms and acclaims. The novel shows how the author has enriched his talents in story-telling for creating suspense and a different atmosphere.
http://www.amazon.com/Seyed-Mehdi-Shojaee/e/B00TPWPN4M
Watch out! Take care of Rats… and others
Posted on September 10, 2014 in Persian Books
is the story of a group of timeless and placeless villagers who are attacked by rats. The army of rats chew out the orchards and plantations and destroy everything on their way. Their population is so huge that no matter how many of them are killed by humans they won’t surrender. As the story says, even a mountain of mousetrap cannot defeat them.
Tired of and fed up with the rats’ attack, people come together to discuss the disaster. The chief of the village suggests asking the cats who were the biggest enemy of rats to help them in this dispute. People convene another meeting to recruit the biggest and the most powerful army of cats.
Everything goes well at the beginning. The cats deliver hundred dead rats every day at the village center. Gradually, the number of delivered rats shrinks. When people go to the commander of the cat army to ask the reason, the commander says: we cannot limit ourselves to just eating rats. We need meat, milk, chicken and some bread in our diet.
Having no other option, the villagers agree to provide meat, milk, chicken and bread for the cats. Despite their new agreement, the number of delivered rats still declines day by day.
The villagers who are desperate by this point decide to investigate the problem by sending a secret agent to where the cats spend their time. Surprisingly, they find out that a huge feast goes one every night outside the village. The cats eat the meat, milk, chicken and bread the villagers provide for them and the rats on the other side eat from villagers’ supply of wheat.
Angry and astonished, the villagers go to the head of the village chief to tell him of the deal with the cats and rats when they astonishingly find out about another deal: the commander of cats delivers meat, milk, chicken and bread to the village chief…
Narges Zayyani
Posted on September 10, 2014 in Graphic designers
Date of Birth: 1985
Place of Birth: Shiraz, Iran
holds an MA in graphic design. She has produced more than fifty works including cover designs, posters and logos. She has also exhibited her works in a handful of exhibitions.
During his artistic career, she has tried her best to incorporate her academic knowledge into her creative work. In the volume Watch out! Take care of Rats… and others she has taken a big step toward finishing a unique art work. She has considered graphic design an intervening language that comes to being between the text and the images. She has given the work a new identity by amalgamating these two elements without falling into exaggeration and verbosity as if the graphic design is to offer new things retrieved from the depth of meaning…
Education: Master of Arts in Graphics
Bachelor of Arts in Graphics, Azad University of Art and Architecture, Tehran, Iran
Master of Arts in Graphics, Sooreh Art University, Tehran, Iran
- Title of Thesis: A Survey on the Evolution of Human Body in Islamic Illustration to the End of the Safavid Period
- Title of Practical part of Thesis: Book cover Designing with the Use of Human Figures in Illustrations
Certified from CaucasusUniversity’s Congress entitledStrategy, Design and Brand
Member of International Council of Graphic Design Association
Honorary Member of graphic design in Institute of Contemporary Arts
Member of Association of Visual Arts and Handicrafts of Fars
Publication of an article entitled “Study of the Evolution of Human Body in Mughal Period Illustrations” in Research Journal of University of Isfahan
Publication of an article entitled “Pathology of teaching graphics in technical institutes in recent years in Neshan-e-Ordibehesht Fourth Research Contest (IGDS Journal) in 2014
Publication of a Translated Article entitled “First, the idea, then, a language between 1930s and 1968″ in Neshan-e-Ordibehesht Fourth Research Contest (IGDS Journal) in 2014
Work experience: working as a graphic designer in Hamrang Graphic Company with the management of Mr. Onish Aminelahi – Tehran
Cover Designer in, Neyestan,Qoqnoos, Amoot and Kelk-e-Zarrin Publications.
Cooperation with Organization of Tehran Beautification– Tehran Municipality for designing billboards
Teaching at art institutions and universities of Shiraz
Delivering a lecture on designing book covers at Artistic Center of Fars in 2013
Solo exhibition entitled “Narges Zayyani Tentative Book Cover” with the use of human figures in Illustrations at Artistic Center of Fars in 2013
Solo Exhibition in designing posters with an approach toward book layout design in Safavid Era, at Vesal Gallery of Shiraz in 2012
Doubles exhibition in designing book covers and posters at Saba Art and Cultural Institute (Academy of Arts) in Tehran, 2013
Group exhibition in Typography in Shiraz, 2009
One of the selected members of Soogvareh Contest for designing Ashura Mourning Poster, Organization of Tehran Beautification– Tehran Municipality, 2012
Selection and representation of book covers and illustrations in Ukraine COW International Design Festival, 2013
Democracy Or Demo Crazy
Posted on September 1, 2014 in Translated Books
Seyyed Mehdi Shojaie’s political satire, Democracy or Demcrashing was written between the years 2002 and 2007. The book managed to receive the publishing permit from the ministry of Culture in the year 2008, but as a result of the unstable political situation at that time, the author voluntarily suspended the release of the book. The book was finally released 5 years later in 2013.
What follows are the title of some of the fourteen chapters of the book: “Those Who See More, Will Steal More; The King Lives in the Same Neighbourhood as God; Robbery is Bad Except For Sublime Purposes; Ruining is Prerequisite of Development; Having Enemies is Very Fruitful, if You lack One, Make One; etc.”
The following sections are excerpts of the speeches Demcrashing gives to the government authorities hoping to teach the principals of governing an estate in a sarcastic and satirical language. Among this sections are:
1. All the people are sheep and we are the shepherd. Be careful, the biggest mistake in governing is valuing people. I want to make it clear, that if you value people more than sheep you can never have power over them later.
2. Always keep this important fact in mind that the people, I mean all of them, are thief, liar and manipulative unless proven wrong. However, many stupid people think it’s just the opposite and the principle of the presumption of innocence is valid…
http://www.amazon.com/Seyed-Mehdi-Shojaee/e/B00TPWPN4M
What If The Snowmen Don’t Melt? …
Posted on August 27, 2014 in Persian Books
Sold: Germany
Sold: Korea
“Book of the Month” Selected by German Academy for Children’s Literature, May 2013
“I’m happy and honored that the present book has become a window through which I can interact with my young friends in Switzerland and can greet every single one of them whose love and kindness is not encircled by boarders.”
In a small town, the kids try to build the biggest snowman that any one has ever seen!
After they finally finish the job, they invite their families and friends to come and see the biggest snowman that they have built.
The next day when people wake up, they find out that they all should be at the service of this big creature and obey whatever he demands…
Then when it comes the time for spring to enter the town and the Sun to shine, the snowman resists …
Nim Man Boogh (Half Man Horn)
Posted on August 27, 2014 in Persian Books
Bologna 2012 Selected Artwork
Selected Book at White Ravens 2012
Selected Book at 16th Children & Young Adults Festival Tehran 2012
The Official Representative of one of the neighboring countries which was ruled by the King of Iran, came to the king to pay his annual taxes. He said I’ve a few questions which if you give me the answers, I’ll be assured that you have a dominant culture in the region. The King called for his Ministers to gather at the Royal Palace and consult with each other and find the answers.
The Ministers couldn’t find any answers, therefore they ran away from the Palace because they were afraid of the King’s punishment.
On their way they met a villager named “Half Man Horn”, they were amazed to hear this strange name, the villager explained that: “My name was Mansoor. I took the “Man” out of my name “Man- Soor” and called myself “Half Man” because I am very humble and down to earth. Then I took the last part of my name “Man-Soor”; “Soor” which means trumpet and put “horn” instead. Finally, I put” half man” and “Horn” together and as result, my name became “Half Man Horn.” The ministers thought that he seems very clever and they decided to took him to the Palace to answer the questions….
12 Short Stories
Posted on August 26, 2014 in Persian Books
Twelve Stories or Angels Have no Stories Lady is a collection of short stories selected among more than forty stories written by Seyyed Ali Shojaie during the last couple of years. Portrayed in an urban setting, the stories investigates human relations in any scale or of any sort trying to depict flaws of human relation through depiction of ordinary and gray people that can be found around us. The characters in these stories are usually simple-hearted people who easily make mistakes and knowingly or unknowingly embitter the sweetness of their lives. Twelve Stories just portrays the lives of people and avoids any sort of judgment in the narration process. The tales present a new perspective through looking from a different angle that juxtapose with people’s untold resolutions. They sometimes attempt to reshape and re-evaluate the laws of the universe. The relationship between husbands and wives, two friends, parents and children, or a group of friends provides the narratives with the platform for the author to manifest his critical view of the society that he thinks is thirsty for morality more than anything else in the world. Twelve stories is a warning for the unsightly reflection of a society that suffers from immorality.