Iacopo Bruno founded the World of DOT graphics and illustration studio together with Francesca Leoneschi. He collaborates with the most important Italian and international publishing houses. His illustrations have received awards from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 1996 and 2000, from the Society of Illustrators in 2013 and 2017, from the Texas Bluebonnet Award in 2016 and 2017, from the Junior Library Guild Selection and from the Cook Prize.