DAMYAN DAMYANOV  

is a Bulgarian artist, graphic designer and assistant professor in visual arts. He graduated from the  National Art High School and the National Academy of Arts in Sofia with a doctoral dissertation in 2019. 

He specializes in book design (with more than 2000 book covers in 15 years), poster design, illustration, post stamp design, calligraphy and design research. He is an assistant professor at New Bulgarian University and the main artist at one of the biggest  bulgarian publishing houses "Ciela", as well as designer for other leading publishers such as "Colibri", "List", "Circle". He is the author of the childrens book "Draw me a sheep". In 2016 he started the typographic experiment "SubLingual", an ideogram dictionary of relevant words from the Bulgarian language. The project is updated every year and has evolved steadily  through several national and international exhibitions and a book.

He is the author of the public lecture "The great journey of the small graphic" in the framework of Computer Space 2014, as well as "Our ideas are dinosaurs" within the Poster and Visual Communication Conference (2013).

Specialization at the Atelier Cite des Arts Paris (2007 and 2021).

He participated in the Triennial of the stage poster in Sofia in 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013 and in the Biennial of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2021. Participant and co-organizer of the Second Scientific Conference on Poster "Poster Thinking. Conceptual Art. Inventions" (2008).
Author of numerous philatelic publications (2004 - 2023).