Sofia Popiordanova works in the field of book art, illustration and independent art publications. She studied Illustration at National School of Fine Arts “Iliya Petrov” and later completed a BA in Book and Print Graphics and a MA in Illustration at National Art Academy, Sofia where she currently works and lives.

She is mainly engaged in book cover design for various publishing houses. In her free time, she likes to explore the beauty of everyday moments, the special states of mind, and to capture the slow rhythm of time. These are the topics that excite and inspire her when she creates own publications.

CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERSHIPS:

Publishing houses Nike, List, Janet45, Aquarius, ICU, Artconnect and others.
Fig. – Festival of Illustration and Graphics 2023
Melba Live 2022
Swimming Pool Projects
Vizh Magazine
For the Earth Association
Greenpeace, Bulgaria
Villa Melnik

PROJECTS:

Treptenia (Tremblings) – Fig. Publishing House (2022). The book launch will happen at Fig.3 (2023). Tremblings is a book about the quiet and subtle moments around us, about nature’s rhythms, each different from the other, but united by their unchanging repetition.

Fragments from Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 2021, self-published. The book is a visual passage through several quotations from Exupéry’s work, deeply touching the reader. Through its lines the book aims to fully engage and immerse the viewer in the soul of the book.

Covers, illustrations and layout for Yordan Radichkov’s books – Nike, 2019-present: The Rabbit, The Goat, The Bomb, Little Northern Saga, The Gentle Spiral, Siberian Notebooks, etc.

Illustrations and layout for fairy tales books by Fani Peycheva, 2 volumes: The Enchanted Forest and The Snow Queen – List, 2022

Cover and layout of Ballads by Johann Wolfgang Goethe – List, 2021

Covers for Ingmar Bergman’s books: Best Finds (2021) and Face-to-Face Conversations (2022) – Artconnect, Macedonia
Illustrations and visions for the Art Laboratory for Clean Air Workshop, organized by For the Earth Association, 2021.

Illustrations for a series of webinars and regular information events “Guardians of Water” by Greenpeace Bulgaria, 2021.

DESIGN IS: A tool that helps us see more clearly.