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History
The European Illustrators Forum (EIF) is a recently founded
network so far consisting of 13 illustrators associations from 8 countries
including Aesopos from Greece, Associazione Illustratori from Italy, Association
of Illustrators (AOI) from the UK, Grafill from Norway, Illustrators of
Ireland, La Maison Des Illustrateurs from France, Svenska Tecknare from
Sweden and the Spanish Federation (FADIP) which includes five regional
associations from Madrid (APIM), Catalunya (APIC), Basque Country (APIE),
Galicia (AGPI) and Valencia (APIV).
Established thanks to Valencia's APIV, its aim is the safeguard of illustrators'
rights and the continental promotion of illustration through the co-ordinated
action of member associations on a local level and with a series of common
initiatives on an international level, beginning with the First Illustrators
Transnational Rendezvous held in Valencia in October 2003.
European Illustrators Forum Charter
Promoter: Italian Associazione Illustratori
Bologna Children's Book Fair, April
17th 2004
The European Illustration Forum (EIF) represents the common
interests of its member European professional associations in dealing
with issues relating to the theory and practice of graphic arts and Illustration.
The EIF aims to promote the exchange of knowledge and information between
artists of different nations and cultures and support common activities
and technical innovation across the wide realm of visual communication.
The EIF will provide a forum for meetings and contact between members
and further exchange of information, techniques, innovation, education
and research.
The EIF supports the value of visual language and its ability to communicate
across physical and cultural boundaries and between different peoples
without need of further mediations, transcending many linguistic and cultural
barriers.
Now that the European Community has permitted the fall of many of the
barriers between member States, the EIF feels that the moment has come
for authors, creators and content providers working as professionals in
the visual arts across Europe to begin both a professional and cultural
dialogue and to attempt to fulfil the creative potential and improve the
critical status of their art form.
The EIF wishes to promote further exchanges of information regarding the
professional world of the illustrator and to compare and monitor developments
in current and future European copyright legislation and the way it may
effect creators rights.
This Forum represents an actual example of the process of European integration
as offered by our eight member countries' illustrators and artists and
their cooperation for mutual benefit. The EIF aims to evolve and expand
by reaching out to other illustrators groups in Europe.
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