Licensing Portfolio Reviews

Starting from 2024, the BLTF/Kids programme has been enriched with the Licensing Portfolio Reviews, a brand-new and innovative way of bringing together key players in animation, brands and consumer goods manufacturers - and everything related to these categories - and illustration and design talents.  

A series of speed-dating meetings taking place throughout the Book Fair is a unique opportunity to scout for new ideas and styles and create new opportunities for collaboration.  

The first edition of the Licensing Portfolio Reviews welcomed 30 international companies from the gaming, animation, toy, stationery and clothing sectors, for which more than 390 meetings with emerging and established illustrators and artists from all over the world were organised.

Among the companies taking part in the second edition of these special portfolio reviews were Keep Digging Production, Movimenti, Cartobaleno, Doodle Production, Kairo Studio, Panebarco for the animation world; Feenix Group, and Funtomata from gaming; while  Studio MinaLima, Origami Editore, and Carioca were the leading representatives for stationery category; Home Made Licensing, iLicensing.io, Exactly.ai & Art Lab Agency, and Booster Milano for the licensing agency; Monnalisa, and Meravillarte  were the pitchers for the apparel industry; Cartel for the design side, together with  Ms Edizioni, Headu , Red Glove, Clementoni, Toad Creative Studio, Cranio Creations, Pendragon Game Studios, and Ludus Magnus board and educational games.

All Licensing Portfolio Review sessions are held at the Illustrators Survival Corner