Siamak Filizadeh as Poster and Visual Identity Designer

Mahdi Rezakhani, art director of the festival, said that given the artistic approach of the festival, which is themed as "Celebration of Iran Theater Dialogue", the event was focused on visual attraction, increase in audience and visual consistency of posters and all advertising materials, Iran Theater reported.

To avoid any haste in appointing the graphic designer, Rezakhani said, the festival had started primary consultations in July and finally reached agreement with Siamak Filizadeh.

He added that the graphic atmosphere of this edition of the festival would be new and the designs was finalized and approved but it would not be unveiled due to type of presentation.

Born in 1970 in Tehran, Siamak Filizadeh has got his high school diploma in art in 1980. He was graduated from Tehran's Islamic Azad University in graphic designing in 1995.

He has a career of about three decades in designing, marketing, advertising and visual arts.  

He has so far had solo and group exhibition in Tehran, New York, Los Angles, Rio de Janeiro, London, Chicago, New Delhi, London, Switzerland and Japan. His artworks are kept by Los Angles County Art Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and some private art collectors.

He has received numerous awards for his poster and book designs.