Anglia Ruskin University

Soledad Veliz, who graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2010 with an MA Children's Book Illustration, has contributed to a government-sponsored book in her native Chile that aims to help teenagers come to terms with the devastation of the February 2010 earthquake. The book, Zona Afectada or 'Crisis Zone', was published this summer as part of a project to help young people affected by the disaster to express their feelings and emotions.

In her powerful compositions, Soledad utilized both her studies in sequential design and her previous academic experience as a psychologist. A selected group of Chilean illustrators were invited to create pictorial interpretations of groupings of words that represent positive and negative aspects of the experience as a whole. A thousand copies of the book were distributed across the country with the aim of helping the healing process.

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