Excellent Latinx Designers, Part Two
This is the second in a three-part series profiling excellent Latinx designers. If you missed part one, I suggest you start there. In this part of the series, I profile excellent Latinx creative directors, environmental designers, type designers, and poster designers.
Creative Directors
Mimi Valdés, i am OTHER
Mimi Valdés is creative director and vice president of Pharrell’s multimedia collective and record label i am OTHER, and responsible for overseeing everything from music videos to film endeavors. Her background in journalism — she’s a former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Latina magazines — provides a road map for each project she works on.
http://iamother.com
https://www.fastcodesign.com/person/mimi-valdes
https://twitter.com/mimivaldes?lang=en
Mario Eskenazi, Mario Eskenazi Studio
Mario Eskenazi was born in 1945 in Cordoba, Argentina. His first design work was a poster for a demonstration, when he was a student. With the arrival of the military dictatorship, he decided to move to Europe. Today, his studio is based in Barcelona and specializes in designing identity and interactive systems for cultural and public institutions, editorial groups, and private companies.
m-eskenazi.com
Andy Cruz, House Industries
Andy Cruz is owner and art director for House Industries, based in Yorklyn, Delaware. House is a prolific type foundry that has expanded its work into a wide array of media, including children’s toys and home furnishings.
https://houseind.com
http://www.aiga.org/design-journeys-andy-cruz
Environments
Rebeca Méndez
Born in Mexico and now living in Los Angeles, Rebeca Méndez thrives on the threshold of disciplines and cultures, working in the boundary spaces between art and design, and between Mexico and the United States. She has done corporate work through her own business and for Ogilvy & Mather’s Brand Integration Group, Wieden + Kennedy, and Carl Seltzer Design, and she is also an exhibiting artist.
http://www.rebecamendez.com
http://www.aiga.org/design-journeys-rebeca-mendez
Rafael Prieto & Eduardo Hernández, Savvy Studio
Savvy Studio is a branding and architecture design practice based in New York, Mexico City, and Monterrey. Savvy’s expertise involves working around the globe on different ventures including boutique hotels, restaurants, retail spaces, art galleries, and museums.
http://savvy-studio.net/
ps.2
Founded in 2003 by Fábio Prata and Flávia Nalon, ps.2 arquitetura + design is a São Paulo, Brazil-based design studio that creates and develops graphic design projects for both print and digital media. The studio is mainly involved on projects for clients within the cultural field: museums and galleries, digital language and film festivals, art, music and photography.
ps2.com.br
Atlas
Atlas is a brand and design consultancy working from offices in New York and Mallorca. They deliver creative thinking and world-class design across a wide range of disciplines for clients far and wide, big and small.
https://designbyatlas.com/
Type Design
Pablo Medina
Pablo Medina creates typeface designs drawn from his love of Latin-American popular culture. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Museum’s Design Triennial exhibition. He is also a recipient of the Art Directors Club Young Gun award. He has taught art and design at Parsons, MICA, and CCA. He runs Design is Culture, a studio based in New York City.
http://designisculture.com
http://www.aiga.org/design-journeys-pablo-medina
Laura Meseguer
Laura Meseguer is a freelance graphic and type designer based in Barcelona. She specializes in typography projects, from lettering for monograms and logotypes to custom typefaces. She studied type design at the post-graduate course TypeMedia at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Rumba, the typeface she designed as part of this course, was selected for the TDC TypeDesign Competition 2005 and garnered the ATypI Prize Letter.2 2011.
http://www.laurameseguer.com/
Francisco Gálvez
Francisco Gálvez is a Chilean graphic designer and type designer. He is the author of the book Educación tipográfica, una introducción a la tipografía. Some of his most famous typefaces are: Amster, Australis, and Elemental. He also designed font families for newspapers such as La Discusión (Chillán), and La Cuarta (Santiago) in collaboration with Rodrigo Ramírez; the typeface for the information system of Santiago Public Transport (Transantiago); and the typeface used on Chile’s road signs.
https://www.myfonts.com/person/Francisco_Galvez/
http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/amster/
Poster Design
Isidro Ferrer
Isidro Ferrer has created hundreds of posters, dozens of books, delicate small objects, enormous facades, short animation clips, sculptures, textiles, brand images, and lamps. Any medium, any technique, any communication channel helps him express through images his passion for the theatre of life. Winner of the Spanish National Design Award 2002 and the National Illustration Award 2005, a member of the AGI, a tireless traveller, his work and words cover a vast physical and emotional geography.
Alejandro Magallanes
Alejandro Magallanes is an internationally recognized artist and designer from Mexico City. His posters have been exhibited internationally, and he has received awards in Warsaw, Mexico and Kharkov. He formed different poster groups like: El Cartel de Medellin, La Corriente Electrica and Fuera de Registro who fight for peace and justice, for the Zapatistas and the Women of Juarez.
http://loquehacealejandromagallanes.blogspot.com/
Santiago da Silva
Santiago da Silva is a Mexican graphic designer whose work is mainly focused on developing books, publications, communication systems, and printed matter in collaboration with an artistic or curatorial work. His approach to design is rooted in establishing person-to-person dynamics which give shape to a particular method of working for every project. Da Silva currently runs his own studio in Berlin.
http://www.santiagodasilva.com/home.html
Please suggest other excellent Latinx creative directors, environmental designers, type designers, and poster designers who are missing from this list! In part one of the series, I profiled excellent Latinx branding, experimental, and motion designers. And in the third part, I profile digital designers, illustrators, and book and book cover designers.
