More than 30 illustration professionals meet at ILUSTRAFEST 2025

• 50 young illustrators and different international Universities have also participated in the III edition of ILUSTRAFEST

The III Edition of ILUSTRAFEST, held at the Campus of Design and Creative Industries of UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, within the framework of Ilustraweek 2025, has brought together more than thirty professional artists and fifty new illustrators, in what is already a reference event for lovers of illustration.

Verónica Grech (author of the image of ILUSTRAFEST 2025), Lucas Farias, La Riso Guapa, Mónica Rühle, Artistas del Barrio, La Fiambrera (with Curro Suárez, Ricardo Martínez or Roberto Maján), Cinta Arribas, Albertoyos, Cris Valencia or different illustrators from APIM (Association of Illustration Professionals of Madrid) and Urban Sketchers Madrid are just some of the artists who participated in the Madrid Illustration Fair.

Also on display was the work of illustrators and teachers from the University, such as Pepe Medina, Ana Escalera, Jorge Chamorro, Noelia Bascones, Juan Lorenzo and María Eugenia Blázquez, and the work of more than 50 students from the Audiovisual Design and Illustration, Multimedia and Graphic Design, Animation and Fashion Design and the UDIT Master's Degree in Illustration.

Curated by Inmaculada Corcho, Director of the ABC Museum of Drawing and Illustration, and co-directed by Juan Carlos Gauli, director of the Audiovisual and Graphic Creation Area and of the Audiovisual Design and Illustration Degree at UDIT and Javier Chavarría, Director of the Master's Degree in Illustration at UDIT, the third edition of ILUSTRAFEST also included the participation of different representatives from the School of Visual Arts in New York, the University of the Arts London and the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych in Poland.

A meeting point for illustration lovers

The ILUSTRAFEST agenda, which this year was developed with the support of El Duende Magazine, also included more than 15 masterclasses and workshops given by professional illustrators, who shared their knowledge with the attendees, establishing an open communication channel through a shared passion.

In addition, this third edition of the Madrid Illustration Fair hosted an interesting retrospective of the covers created by the Spanish artist Ana Juan for the prestigious magazine The New Yorker, including some mythical ones such as Reflections, a tribute to the victims of 9/11 on the tenth anniversary of the attack.