Ana Curbelo
Ana Curbelo (known as untepid) is an award winning illustrator and artist.
She has worked as an illustrator internationally with agencies such as Scholz & Friends and Vice, creating characters with a very distinct personal style. Her most notable work is her work for The Tampon Book, which helped change the law, and won several awards at Clio Awards and Cannes Lions 2019, including a Grand Prix, attracting worldwide press interest.
The current political situation, climate change, the patriarchy and mental health are some of the issues her characters confront. They are generally unimpressed.
Mostly alone and naked, their bodies and their thoughts are depicted with equal explicitness. Their openness and vulnerability endows them with a humorous and tender dignity, and, though disenchanted, their attitude is not detached or indifferent.
Ana is currently based in London.
Email me :) anacurbelo.hi@gmail.com
Selected press:
Digital Arts Online - Amazing illustrators on the body-positive art breaking female taboos
Creative Boom - The creative team railing against the tampon tax by hiding sanitary products in a beautifully illustrated book
The Guardian - No luxury: book containing tampons is runaway hit
El País - Un libro lleno de tampones para pagar un IVA reducido
Vogue - Why This Protest Tampon Book Is Flying Off The Shelves
Stylist Magazine - A book with 15 free tampons inside it has sold out for this political reason
The Irish Times - Book containing tampons becomes a bestseller
Melville House - Packaging tampons as books: the subversive new way to avoid a sexist tax
Design Calendar - April Issue 2019
Design Calendar - November Issue 2019