Simon Arizpe is an

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

and paper engineer.

Life

Simon Arizpe is a graduate of the

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and resides in Brooklyn,

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Career

Simon Arizpe served as the senior paper engineer and

for the studios of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart for a decade. He has worked on over 40

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s. Simon is a visiting instructor at the

and teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He is the recipient of the 2018

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. His pop up book "The Wild" has been made part of the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum library.

Awards and honors

* Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineer for "Zahhak:The Legend of the Serpent King" * Award of Excellence, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY, 2013 * Award of Excellence, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY, 2013

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arizpe, Simon American illustrators Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Pratt Institute alumni