Vittorio Fiorucci

Vittorio Fiorucci (1932 – July 30, 2008) was an Italian Canadian poster artist from Montreal, Canada.

Fiorucci was born in Yugoslavia from Italian parents, and spent most of his childhood in Italy before coming to Canada in 1951. By 1960, he was an established artist and by 1980 was one of the most renowned poster designers in the world. Fiorucci was awarded a Moebius Award at the 1998 International Advertising Awards of Chicago, and lifetime achievement awards from the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators and the Institute of Design Montréal. [ [http://www.infodesigncanada.com/infodesign/en/circle_of_honour/vittorio/bio.html Biography] , Infodesign Canada.] Fiorucci worked in a variety of mediums: he did illustration works for magazine and children's book, animation, and was an established photographer who was exposed in 1958 at George Eastman House's International Exhibition of the World's Greatest Photographers. [fr icon [http://culturefrancophone.ca/teteatete/22_vfiorucci/ Culture Francophone] (flash)] [Lydia Ferrabee, " [http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/article.php?year=1970&title=257&article=d.257.33 Montreal's Public Private Eye] ", 1970, "Design".]

His work was used to promote many of the films that marked the beginning of independent Québecois cinema, and appeared in magazines as varied as "Time" and (the cinema magazine) "Take One". He created the logo for the Le Château chain of clothing stores, and the green mascot of the Just For Laughs festival. He died from a stroke on July 30, 2008. [icon fr " [http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/09/29/158792.html Cure de Jouvence pour Vittorio] ", "Le Devoir".] [fr icon [http://www.radio-canada.ca/arts-spectacles/PlusArts/2008/07/30/001-vittorio-mort.asp L'affichiste montréalais n'est plus] , Radio-Canada, 2008-07-30]

Further reading

* "L'art de Vittorio Fiorucci: Affiches 1964-1981" (1981), Paris: Centre culturel canadien. ISBN 2-900434-53-X
* Fulvio Caccia, Daniel Sloate (1998) " [http://books.google.com/books?id=k7A83JHtPtkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Vittorio+Fiorucci%22#PPA67,M1 Vittorio Fiorucci: The Devil behind the Poster] ", in "Interviews with the Phoenix: Interviews with Fifteen Italian-Quebecois Artists", Guernica Editions, pp. 67-76. ISBN 1-55071-064-8

References

External links

* [http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/exposition/a_1/lien_a7.htm Gallery] on the website of the Cinémathèque Québécoise
* [http://pilule.telequebec.tv/pages/Categorie-de-sujets-dun-emission/le-portrait.aspx?emission=154&date=2007-11-29 Short biography] on the emission "Un pilule, Une peite Granule"
* [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080801/CPARTS/808010806/-1/CPARTS Obituary] from "La Presse"
* [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=65e59b61-42cd-47cf-98f9-a88c9f5081ac Obituary] from "The Gazette"