Foreword

Until about three decades ago, to be a graphic designer, more or less Must be an illustrator. Hard work making and paying Images of skinning, drawing, photocopying and lit. Imaging in lithography began with illustration Skillful, by hand. The head of the string that we follow arrives at that Illustration and graphic design as a single art Is mixed. Where Mohammad Bahrami, patient and steadfast, stands Until history comes to him. Successive generations of graphic designers are so natural They were together and their horizons were so close together They almost did not see the need to analyze their history. Sometimes they did not even care about their contemporaries. But then From the fourth "careless" generation, young people came to continue By the way, they had no choice but to analyze the past. It was here That great and neglected names emerged from the heart of documents and works

Mohammad Bahrami is one of those big names. Other reasons Undeniably part of contemporary graphic design and illustration Is. He made many works both in himself and in his studio Opportunity for the rise of the great names of contemporary Iranian graphic design Provided. Part of the history of illustration depends on his name. Browse his works Simply and clearly an important part of design history Narrates our contemporary graphics and illustrations; But More; The dominant aesthetics of a time as if for centuries It is far from us. Let us take a look at our contemporary visual history from Take a closer look, this time with the signature of "Mohammad Bahrami".

Professor Mohammad Bahrami, painter, painter and one of the founders of illustration, graphics and modern printing industry in Iran, in 1305 AH. He was born in Rahmatabad, Rudbar, and completed his primary education in Tehran. He has been since childhood He was interested in painting. His father, Aboutaleb Bahrami, was a Tafresh and employee of the Finance Department. He was happy, recognized his son's talent, and at the age of ten took him to the National Conservatory of Arts. To learn painting from masters such as Hadi Tajvidi, Emami, Zavieh, etc. After high school in Iranshahr High School, he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. Also a photography course at the institute Finished New York Photography with honors. Bahrami, who was and is a sportsman, trained as a teenager in the "Niroo va Rasti" club in the streets of Asid Hashem. کرد. Manouchehr Mehran, the manager of the club, decides to publish the magazine "Niroo va Rasti" and because he knew Bahrami draws, orders the cover of the magazine. Bahrami also draws a standing lion in the plan and to This is the form of his first graphic design. Cover design for printing to the information newspaper printing house It was one of the most equipped printing houses in Tehran at that time. Coincidentally, the living memory of Ahmad Shahidi, the editor Sees monthly design information and inquires about its designer. Shahidi likes his work and to him He offers to cooperate and Bahrami becomes the director of the information studio. He was about 19 years old at the time

Bahrami, after some effective work in the information studio, gradually thinks of becoming independent. In the year 1330 He co-founded his first studio, Ark, with a friend and student, Javad Hatef. Two years later Ark Atelier is renamed to Bahrami Atelier and after Pars Atelier and continuing its professional development, printing house Launches Gutenberg. During these years, he was also a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts and studied "Nature" with Professor Ali Mohammad Heydarian Sazi ", Houshang Seyhoun" Decor Design Lesson ", Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam" Art History Lesson "and ... His original black and white paintings on the texts of classical literature and contemporary Iranian poetry and new styles and methods. The creator of his watercolor works, inspired by Hafez's sonnets, as a gift of the moon in Information Magazine It was held monthly, causing Bahrami to be famous among poets, writers and masters of grace and knowledge. From this time on, he began to illustrate the drawings of the Shahnameh, which later became an exquisite collection The title of the great Shahnameh of Amirkabir Publications is published. After the revolution, he handed over the Gutenberg printing house and painted and researched the "History of Iranian Art". During these years, he has been writing a book of the same name, which is now available to artists.