Nino Jishkariani works in the field of painting, graphic art, book design and illustration; creates posters and exlibris. She designed posters for the “Film Actors Theatre” (1984-85) in Tbilisi, and illustrated dozens of books, collaborating with publishing houses such as “Nakaduli”, “Merani” and “Soviet Georgia”. In addition to painting, she is actively involved in the study of the development of Georgian graphic arts. She authored three consecutive, richly illustrated bilingual editions dedicated to the art of Georgian books “ The Art of Georgian Book”. Vol. I, 2013; Vol. II, 2015; and “Illustration”. Book III, 2015. These publications track the history of the creation and development of twentieth-century Georgian book
design, the book structure, title fonts and illustrations. With Merab Getsadze she co-authored a bilingual (Georgian-
English) book specially prepared for the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair “Georgian TYPE for graphic designers”. Since 1984 she has been actively participating in exhibitions in Georgia and abroad.
