Viktor Koen
Chair, BFA Illustration and BFA Comics departments, School of Visual Arts; illustrator; designer
Education
BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; MFA, School of Visual Arts
Current and former clients include
Atlantic Records, Roadrunner Records, BBC, Delta Airlines, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Penguin Random House, Doubleday, HarperCollins, Rizzoli, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
One-person exhibitions include
Benaki Museum, Athens; United Photo Industries; Type Directors Club; Coningsby Gallery, London; Slovak National Museum, Bratislava; Photography Centre of Athens; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; KP Projects, Los Angeles
Publications include
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Wired, ESPN, Men’s Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune, Money, Forbes, Nation, BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Tor, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times
Awards and honors include
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts; Gold Award, Graphis; First Prize, Digital Hall of Fame; Kounio/Hasselblad Award; Gold Award, Folio; First Prize, EVGE Award; First Prize, Viridian Gallery National Juried Exhibition; Award for Excellence, Society of Publication Designers; Speaker, TEDx, Athens