2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals 
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals
HISTORY
Maria Balan is a graphic artist based in Bucharest. She studied Graphic Arts at the National University of Arts and Architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu“. She has been involved in various artistic projects and national or international exhibitions. Maria’s work focuses on illustration, painting and engraving. In 2015 she published an artist book in limited edition that is part of the Art Book selection in the competition "The most beautiful books of Romania". In 2013 she has been awarded with the Prize of The International Biennial for Young Artists, Timisoara.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals
The project is represented by an art book, made entirely by the artist, which illustrates in a unique and original manner the music of Pink Floyd’s album Animals. Inspired by the lyrics but also by George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm”, she created a drawing that unfolds like a frieze which combines various human characters, hidden behind animals that illustrate them. The leitmotif is the man with the head in a box that appears in various circumstances throughout the story, and the summary of this symbol is hidden in the envelope of this book, which is made so to open up. The book was printed in an edition of twenty copies. What makes this book unique is the format, as an accordion book, but with the upward rectangle principle, each page surpasses the previous one, so that successive overlapping compiles a single image.
Maria Balan is a graphic artist based in Bucharest. She studied Graphic Arts at the National University of Arts and Architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu“. She has been involved in various artistic projects and national or international exhibitions. Maria’s work focuses on illustration, painting and engraving. In 2015 she published an artist book in limited edition that is part of the Art Book selection in the competition "The most beautiful books of Romania". In 2013 she has been awarded with the Prize of The International Biennial for Young Artists, Timisoara.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2017 // Pink Floyd’s Animals
The project is represented by an art book, made entirely by the artist, which illustrates in a unique and original manner the music of Pink Floyd’s album Animals. Inspired by the lyrics but also by George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm”, she created a drawing that unfolds like a frieze which combines various human characters, hidden behind animals that illustrate them. The leitmotif is the man with the head in a box that appears in various circumstances throughout the story, and the summary of this symbol is hidden in the envelope of this book, which is made so to open up. The book was printed in an edition of twenty copies. What makes this book unique is the format, as an accordion book, but with the upward rectangle principle, each page surpasses the previous one, so that successive overlapping compiles a single image.
