Istvan Orosz works both as a film director and a graphic artist. He was
born in Kecskemét, Hungary in 1951. He was trained as a graphic
designer at the University of Arts and Design in Budapest. After
graduation in 1975, he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer
and animated films as an animator and film director. Later, when poster
came to the center of his interest he made mainly theatre, movie and
exhibition posters. He is known as a printmaker and an illustrator, as
well. He is a regular participant at the major international biennials
of posters and graphic designs and his works has been shown in
individual and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. He is a film
director at the Pannonia Film Studio in Budapest, professor of the
University of West Hungary in Sopron, member of the Alliance Graphique
International and the Hungarian Art Academy.
His pseudonym is "Utisz" (or Utis/Outis) from Greek (meaning 'No-body'), which first was used in the Greek mythology by Ulysses when saying his name to the
blinded Cyclops Polyphemus.
He is keen on playing chess.
He has swum four times Lake Balaton - the biggest lake in Hungary - at the Balaton Cross-Swimming competition, where participants accomplish a distance of 5,2 km to cross it.