Hamed Eshrat works as a designer, artist and author in Berlin. He studied communication design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. His book Venustransit (2015) was selected as one of the ten finalists of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung's German Comic Book Award. In his first graphic novel, Tipping Point – Téhéran 1979 (2009), he tells the story of his family during the political upheaval in 1970s Iran.
As of: September 2021