“Leave other people to draw seemingly beautiful flowers that bloom within a nice, pleasant-looking scenery, I try instead to capture the vivid flowers that sometimes hide and sometimes grow within a shameless, immoral and horrifying dream.”
Toshio Saeki
︎Nathalie Cohen is an illustrator, graphic designer, and artisan. She designs images for international publishing, collaborating with publishing houses, journalistic publications, and independent editorial projects, simultaneously developing her narrative paths.
Her visual research is inspired by the dreamlike universe, crossing visual storytelling with different styles and techniques. Creating imagery allows her to explore the mystical and mysterious aspects of the natural and supernatural, inner and outer, personal and collective worlds.
︎In 2023, she founded Happy Snake, an identity capsule for all her creative projects: illustration and painting, tattooing, graphic design, photography, sewing, crochet and knitting.
︎Nathalie Cohen è illustratrice, graphic designer e artigiana. Progetta immagini per l’editoria a livello internazionale collaborando con case editrici, testate giornalistiche e progetti editoriali indipendenti, sviluppando parallelamente i suoi percorsi narrativi.
La sua ricerca visiva trae ispirazione dall’universo onirico, attraversando la narrazione per immagini con stili e tecniche differenti. La creazione di immaginari le consente di esplorare gli aspetti mistici e misteriosi del mondo naturale e soprannaturale, interiore ed esteriore, personale e collettivo.
︎Nel 2023 fonda Happy Snake, capsula indentitaria per ogni suo progetto creativo: illustrazione e pittura, tatuaggio, graphic design, fotografia, cucito, uncinetto e maglia.
︎︎︎︎ CLIENTS & COLLABORATIONS
LaLettura︎Corriere della Sera, Mondadori, Mondadori Electa, Rizzoli, Piemme, Ponte alle Grazie︎Salani, Il Tascabile︎Treccani, Marie Claire New York, Andrews McMell Publishing, FilmTV Magazine, Effe, Granta Italia, Illustrati︎Logos, TINALS︎This Is Not A Love Song, Neuroblasto Magazine, Verticalismi, Lök Magazine and more.
︎︎︎ MAGAZINE PROJECTS
2022︎23︎︎︎ Art director, layout creator & illustrator into the editorial team of Yūgen SM, Milan
2021︎22︎︎︎ Art director into the editorial team of Teatro di Oklahoma, Milan
2012︎︎︎ Illustrator & graphic designer into the editorial team of Lucha Libre, Milan︎︎︎ SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018︎︎︎ ONIRO(s) @Cinemanía, Mexico City
︎︎︎ COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2018︎︎︎Magari Festival @Point Éphémère, Paris
2017︎︎︎The color of words. The author’s artworks in the cultural supplement
of Corriere della Sera @La Triennale di Milano, Milan
︎︎︎ Ladies not gentleman @Spazio Workshop, Milan
︎︎︎Yellow Kim Press @Leoncavallo, Milan
2016︎︎︎ Wow Draisina 200 @Parrocchia Di S. Sigismondo, Gaiole in Chianti
2015︎︎︎ Lucha Libre #2 Release Party @CSOA Lambretta, Milan
2014︎︎︎ Gendersheet @Tuba Women’s Library, Rome
2013︎︎︎ Lucha Libre #1 Release Party @La Posteria, Milan
2012︎︎︎ Lucha Libre #0 Release Party @Spazio Concept, Milan
︎︎︎ AWARDS
2014︎︎︎1° price winner of New Authors International Contest at Treviso Comic Book Festival
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