Spotlight on Margherita Caspani
WIA2025 DI Award Winner
We are excited to introduce Margherita Caspani, the winner of the World Illustration Awards 2025 DI Cross Category Award.
This year’s DI Award winner, selected from all the Professional projects shortlisted for WIA2025 will receive a marketing package in the WORKBOOK’S Directory of Illustration, valued at $2,700 US Dollars.
The program includes a 100-image professional portfolio on directoryofillustration.com plus a one-on-one consultation with a professional Directory of Illustration marketing consultant on how to best present your work to the American market. An amazing opportunity to help illustrators successfully grow and sustain their professional careers!
“Veniceland: Illustrated menu for Experimental Cocktail Club in Venice”
Design Product & Packaging Category (Professional)
Shortlist + Highly Commended + DI Award
Margherita created a series of 18 illustrations celebrating the magic of Venice, each paired with a cocktail inspired by the city’s legends and history. The artwork forms the 2024–2025 menu for Experimental Cocktail Club Venice and was also featured across promotional materials and custom-designed glassware inspired by her illustrations.
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Meet Margherita:
Margherita is an award-winning illustrator from Milan, known for her dreamily ironic and elegantly quirky visual world. A graduate with honors in Illustration and Animation from IED Milan—where she now teaches—Margherita’s work has earned international acclaim, including a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York, two World Illustration Awards, and two Awards of Excellence from Communication Arts.
Her portfolio spans editorial and brand collaborations with Apple, Il Sole 24 Ore, Corriere della Sera, L’Espresso, La Repubblica, Internazionale, Acqua di Parma, VeraLab, LaFeltrinelli, DeAgostini, FuoriSalone, and Piccolo Teatro. And though her career has taken flight, she still finds time to draw the occasional duck.
