{"id":144,"date":"2016-05-18T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2023-05-17T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:40:16","slug":"bio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/bio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/me-e1463616580208.jpg\" alt=\"me-e1463616580208\" width=\"813\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/me-e1463616580208.jpg 813w, https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/me-e1463616580208-600x298.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/me-e1463616580208-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/me-e1463616580208-768x382.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bizhan Khodabandeh is a visual communicator who moves freely across the professional boundaries as designer, illustrator, artist and cartoonist. His works vary from small graphic art projects to major public campaigns. Khodabandeh is particularly fascinated by how art and design can be a catalyst for social change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He has received numerous international and national awards for his work, including: a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators for comics, a silver medal from the International Design Awards, a finalist in the Cross-Cultural Design Competition, and best in show through the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He has received recognition for his work as both an illustrator and designer through various institutions such as: The Society of Illustrators, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, Creativity International, the International Design Awards, Adbusters, and Creative Quarterly.\u00a0Khodabandeh has had work featured in publications such as Print, Creativity International, Adbusters, Comic Bastards among others.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Khodabandeh is an assistant professor at VCU\u2019s Robertson School of Media &amp; Culture and freelances under the name, Mended Arrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>My services include<br \/>\n<\/b>Print Design<br \/>\nLogo Design<br \/>\nBranding &amp; Identity Development<br \/>\nFront-End Web Design<br \/>\nIllustration<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>I also offer<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Creative consulting for individuals and businesses as well as educational lectures &amp; hands-on workshops with topics ranging from guerilla marketing, DIY media, comics, art as activism &amp; self-initiated projects.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizhan Khodabandeh is a visual communicator who moves freely across the professional boundaries as designer, illustrator, artist and cartoonist. His works vary from small graphic art projects to major public campaigns. Khodabandeh is particularly fascinated by how art and design can be a catalyst for social change. He&hellip; <span class=\"read-btn\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/bio-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-page-with-sidebar.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendedarrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}