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Alejandro Paul

Ale, a co-founder of Sudtipos, is pivotal in elevating Argentina's Graphic Design landscape. With a rich background as an art director for prestigious studios, he transitioned seamlessly to typeface design, shaping fonts for leading packaging agencies and commercial ventures. His achievements span numerous international biennials, alongside accolades from esteemed institutions such as the Type Directors Club NY and TDC Tokyo. Ale's influence extends beyond design; as the first Argentine member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, he continues to shape the global discourse on typography. His personal work is enshrined in prestigious collections worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, while Sudtipos remains a touchstone for brands seeking cutting-edge typographic solutions.

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Agustin Pizarro Maire

Agustín Pizarro Maire is a Graphic Designer, lettering artist and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. After obtaining his degree at the University of Buenos Aires, he continued learning from professionals like Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari (Argentina), Martina Flor (Buenos Aires and Berlin) and Ken Barber (Cooper Type, New York), improving his skills in the field of illustration and lettering, and also developing his skills in packaging design and visual identity working for different studios and for Sure agency, in Buenos Aires.

Through design, illustration and typographic practice, he has developed an intuitive and versatile way to face challenges, based on the multiplicity of techniques, adapting to different environments and always exploring new concepts.

In 2021 he joined YaniGuille&Co’s team as an Art Director.

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Aldus De Losa

Aldus De Losa is an argentinian type designer, graphic designer and lettering artist.

His undergraduate studies were carried out at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He is the founder of ´Tipitos Argentinos, the first informal scope for type aprentices.

Since 1996 he is a professor of typography signature on many educational institutes (University of Buenos Aires, Fundación Gutenberg and Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales). He is also a professor and tutor of proyectual thesis at the Master in Typography (2009-2017) at the University of Buenos Aires.

Founder & ownwer at Estudio Digit (graphic design an visual communication).

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Alejandro Freitez

Venezuelan graphic and typographic designer based in Buenos Aires. He is graduated from the "Centro Gráfico de Tecnología" of Maracay city, where he develop a particular love for the typography and letterforms, making it a essential resource in each work. He was work both independently and in different team works, where it stands out in art direction, type design, lettering and editorial projects.

Alejandro have joined the Sudtipos team to help Ale Paul to develope his crazy upcoming font ideas and to keep improving the quality of the library.

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Ales Santos

I am an illustrator born and based in Madrid but with a Leonese soul. Although I also do design work my main work is illustrating. Letters mainly. They are my passion and I work them in almost all their aspects: Calligraphy, lettering, traditional lettering and, little by little, typography.

My beginnings with lettering come from a very young age since I liked to imitate people's handwriting styles. Later I started playing with graffiti and, after studying design and illustration courses in several centers, I started working in Molaría where my eyes were opened and I discovered the wonderful world of lettering and, little by little, calligraphy.

Thus, training mainly self-taught and later doing workshops in calligraphy, lettering, signage, etc. I was growing and being able to dedicate myself to what I like the most. However, I have not stopped training and taking courses and one of the ones I did that has influenced me the most was the Familia Plómez typography course.

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Alex Trochut

Alex Trochut was born in 1981 in Barcelona, Spain. After completing his studies at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, Alex established his own design studio in Barcelona before relocating to New York City. Through his design, illustration and typographic practice he has developed an intuitive way of working that has resulted in his expressive visual style.

For Alex, typography functions on two hierarchical levels. First, there is the image of the word we see; reading comes secondary. As a designer, Alex focuses on the potential of language as a visual medium, pushing language to its limits so that seeing and reading become the same action and text and image become one unified expression.

Mixing styles and genres and drawing equally from pop culture, street culture, fashion and music, Alex has created design, illustration and typography for a diverse range of clients: Nike, Adidas, The Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, BBC, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, The Guardian, The New York Times, Time Magazine and many others. Alex’s work has been internationally recognized, appearing in in exhibitions and publications worldwide. He has given talks and been honored by the Art Directors Club––including being named a 2008 Young Gun––the Type Directors Club, Creative Review, Cannes, Clio and D&AD among others. His monograph, More Is More, explores his working methodologies and influences and was published in 2011.

Alex currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

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Andrés Felipe Ramírez

Based in Colombia, Andrés Felipe Ramírez is the founder of Estudio Vástago, a business consulting studio focused on brand design, where he participates as creative director and logo designer. His interest in typography began as an apprentice at the Estudio Calderón type foundry in Colombia, where he learned some foundations of typography, calligraphy and lettering. This period was used to develop his first commercial typeface called “Chepina Script”, which in turn was the result of his undergraduate work in Graphic Design at the Departmental Institute of Bellas Artes, and was awarded at the Latin American typography biennial Tipos Latinos 2018.

Since his beginnings in typography, he has carried out different retail projects focused on advertising signs from the middle of the 20th century. In each brand project carried out in his studio, he applies custom letter drawing concepts in the development of custom logos. He is constantly in the study of forms and counterforms to understand little by little details of the drawing of letters, achieving differential solutions in each design.

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Angel Koziupa

Angel Koziupa has been making lettering, type and logos for the last forty years. He is a hidden hand behind every important packaging logotyps in Argentina. He worked thirty-five years at McCann Erikson and made freelance works for major agencies like Interbrand, Futurebrand, and others.

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Ariel Di Lisio

Ariel was born on October 29, 1972 in Buenos Aires, and studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires. During the period between 1993 and 1997 he worked at the clothing and footwear brand Puma. In 2001 he founded his agency Twentyfive™, specialized in Branding and Typography and providing services for clients from different industries, such as fashion, architecture and music.

His work has been internationally published in several websites, design books, magazines, and typography journals from around the world. In 2009 the prestigious I.D. Magazine selected him among 40 other outstanding designers of the year in its annual edition. That same year he was selected to participate in Lubalin Now Exhibition Center of Design and Typography at Cooper Union, New York.

He have worked as design professor at the university © CEDIM of Monterrey, Mexico and UDEM (University of Monterrey, Mexico). Today he is advisor in the Branding Postgraduate at FADU, UBA. He has given lectures and workshops at various universities and design congresses in Argentina and around the world.

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Ariel Garófalo

Ariel is a Graphic Designer (UBA), and for 11 years he directs his own consulting company of Design and Branding NEWSDESIGN.RED (www.newsdesign.red).

With 20 years of experience on the market, he has realized projects of redesign of diaries and magazines for different medias of America, Europe and Africa.

He has worked also for international signatures such as Danilo Black, Garcia Media and has developted hiself also as director of art and teacher of typography and publishing design in the University of Buenos Aires.

His projects have been published in the magazine Novum of Germany and the magazine Design 360 of China between other medias. He has dictated conferences and workshops on design of medias in the Inter-American Company of Press (SIP), the festival Design Fest of Mexico, the French Alliance and diverse universities of Latin America. His works received prizes to the excellence of the Society for News Design (SND) and the SND Scandinavia.

He is one of the founders of Sudtipos.com, firstly Argentine fundidora grupal. He has designed diverse sources and re-designed the logos of big medias as Reform and Mural of Mexico, The Telegraph of Ecuador, Him Wage of Montreal of Canada, Hispanic World of The United States, Popular Diary of Argentina, among others.

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Carolina Marando

Carolina Marando is a graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated from the Gutenberg Foundation in 2012. During her career Carolina developed a passion for letters and illustration, which motivates her each day to research, practice, and experiment within this immense universe. The aspect of this process she most enjoys is its constant education, by which she continues to refine herself as a graphic designer, calligrapher and typographer, since she believes that in order to understand letters, one must approach them from all perspectives.

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Claudio Pousada

Visual Comunication Designer from UNLP. He taught in the same university course. He has dedicated to TV's graphics for 17 years. He has worked for 10 years as Art Director in America Multimedia in Buenos Aires. He founded SinergiaLab working for Disney Channel, FoxKids, UOL, IPlan, Channel 13, Channel 9 and Endemol.

He created the first seminary about Identity Design on TV. He is member of the International Broadcast Design Asociation since 1993. His works have been published in different media. He presented in BDA Miami 2000 Paisaje Latino, an investigation about identity on TV. Founder of Kit-Che-N, 1st Latinamerica's multicompany television project, with the best of latin tv, Miami, 2001. He received many awards in BDA-PROMAX for his works and for being part of the "Latinamerica's best creative equipment". Founder of the experimental typographic project SantoTipo. Sudtipo's co-founder, first argentinian colective foundry of digital typography. Designed the no tipographic font system “icons of icons": SL Che, SL Gardel. SL Borges, SL Cortázar, SL Evita and SL Fangio. 2003.

Also designed the SL So Prolix, SL Titanes and SL Frank America fonts.

He creates the Communication and Image Department of Channel 9, Buenos Aires; making the realese of the 2005 season.

Creator of Canal-i, an interactive TV signal dedicated to the youth, creating the concept and the image of the channel. Caracas Venezuela. 2005-2006.

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Cristóbal Henestrosa

Cristóbal Henestrosa (Mexico City, 1979) is a graduate in Graphic Communication from the National School of Plastic Arts – now Faculty of Arts and Design – at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He possesses a master’s degree in typographic design from the Centro de Estudios Gestalt (Veracruz, Mexico) and also a diploma in type design from The Cooper Union (New York City). His type families have been prizewinners of the Type Directors Club’s Typeface Design Competition, as well as selected several times at Tipos Latinos – Latin American Typography Biennial. He is the author of Espinosa: Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (Designio, Mexico, 2005) and coauthor of Cómo crear tipografías (Tipo E, Madrid, 2012), which has been translated into Polish, Portuguese, English, and Chinese. Since 2011 he is a professor of typography and type design at the Faculty of Arts and Design.

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Diego Giaccone

Recipient of the Konex Award 2002.

He was pointed out as one of the best designers among five in the Argentine Graphic Design area. He graduated as Graphic Designer in the Architecture Design and Urbanism University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA). He was also a teacher at this institution. He shown his work in collective and individual expositions on many occasions, and many of his works were published in different publications. He gave conferences in different chairs from Design, Typography and Packaging.

In 2004 he plublished QueBranding!, his first book about big brands in unpleasant situation.

During 1993-1998 he became a member of the department of Packaging Design of Arcor Group, where he designed consumer packaging for different markets. Arcor is a world leader in confectionery and exports to 45 countries around the world.

During 1998-2003, he worked at Interbrand Avalos & Bourse, being Design Director from 2000 to 2003. During October/November of 1999 he worked at Interbrand Newell and Sorrell of London, in the departments of Packaging and Communications.

During 2003-2005, he was a Consumer Branding Director of FutureBrand Argentina.

Now he is the founder and Brand Creation Director of SURE BRANDESIGN (www.surebrandesign.com), with expertise in Brand Strategy, Brand Name, Brand Arquitecture, Brand Packaging and Brand Type.

For the last 15 years he has developed projects for Molinos Group, Arcor, Quilmes, Bodegas Chandon, Concha y Toro, ViÃ±a San Pedro (Chile), Adler, TVB Company, Adams, Nabisco/Terrabusi, SAVA Gancia, Bodegas Nieto Senetiner, Unilever, CCU, PeÃ±aflor Group, El Esteco, Petrobras, Cadbury/Stani and Pepsi.

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Dirk Wachowiak

Dirk Wachowiak is a graphic designer with a focus on typography and type design. Besides his design practise he holds a professorship in Typography and Corporate Design at Trier University of Applied Sciences

Dirk studied in Germany and the US before he received his MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University School of Art in 2005. Together with Stefanie Schwarz he founded the Typographic Research Lab Open2Type in 2013 and since 2014 he is a member of the Art Director Club.

His work has been published in magazines like Page, Novum, Form, Slanted and Creative Review and received international honour e.g. Certificate of Typographic Excellence (Type Directors Club New York). Tokyo Type Directors Club and the RedDot Award (Best of the Best).

Dirk has lectured or held workshops at: Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (GER), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (GER), School of Design Pforzheim University (GER), Hochschule Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (GER), Hochschule für Kunst, Design und Populäre Musik Freiburg (GER), HFG Offenbach University of Art and Design (GER), Winchester School of Art (UK).

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Edgar Capula

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1997, he holds a degree in Design and Visual Communication from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He earned a diploma in Advertising, Communication, and Design from the same university in 2021, followed by a diploma in Typeface Design and Production (Mexico, 2022). He has taken various lettering and calligraphy courses and workshops to continue honing his skills.

Passionate about letterforms, he has focused his work on lettering, branding, and type design. He develops custom visual identity and logo projects, emphasizing typographic work and how letters communicate. He has also gained expertise in packaging, editorial design, and illustration.

His work has been recognized with a Silver Mention at the 2023 a! Diseño Awards in the Student Typography category, and his lettering has been published in *Typism* books, editions 7 and 9, in Australia.

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Edwin Moreira Balladares

Born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua. Diploma in Typographic Design and Production, Mexico, 2021. Diploma in applied typography by the Barcelona School of Arts & Design, LaBasad, 2019.

Graphic and type designer, university professor and poster devotee. He has given workshops and conferences on design and journalism, editorial and typography design.

Coordinator of Tipos Latinos, Nicaragua chapter. Finalist in the Latin American Design Awards 2021, selected in the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño BID20 and BID16, The Golden Bee Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design 2020, Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México 2018. He participated as a guest in the Bolivia Poster Biennial BICeBé 2015 and in the literary festival Centroamérica Cuenta 2017 and 2020.

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Elí Castellanos

Elí Castellanos studied graphic design in Oaxaca, Mexico. He has published retail fonts with different foundries; he has also produced fonts for mexican type designers. During 8 years, he was teaching typography in Mexico.

His work has been selected by the Typography Biennial Tipos Latinos. In 2011 he received the Excellence in Typography Award by Communication Arts Magazine. In 2014 he won the Gold Prize by the Morisawa Type Design

Competition. Currently he works as a fulltime font developer in London, UK.

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Gabriel Martinez Meave

Hello. My name is Gabriel Martínez Meave. Design, Illustration, Calligraphy, Typography, Lettering and the mix of them all are my passion. I work on personal, editorial, cultural and commercial projects for national and international clients from my studio in Mexico City. I find inspiration anywhere, especially in the deep, diverse graphic heritage of my country. My work features traditional and digital techniques, from pencils to pixels.

I’ve executed projects for global companies such as Warner Music, Google, Kellogg’s, Pearson, Richmond, McMillan, Santillana, Siruela, Unilever; for Leo Burnett, J.W.Thompson, Lowe, Ogilvy&Mather, TeránTBWA and other advertising agencies, as well as Mexican institutions such as Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Presidencia de la República, Fondo de Cultura Económica and national clients like Grupo Modelo, José Cuervo, Maseca, Jumex, El Palacio de Hierro, Telcel, Cervecería Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma and Gandhi bookstores. My work has been featured in global Design and Illustration magazines such as How, Communication Arts, Step, Étapes Graphiques, Page, Novum, Desktop, Visual, Tupigrafía, TPG, Diseña, Matiz and a!Diseño. As well, it has appeared in the books Language Culture Type, Typography 21, 22 & 29, Tres Logos, Type Navigator, Hand to Type, Play Loud!, Type 365, Marcas MEX and Diseño Gráfico en México 100 Años, among others.

I teach at the Mexican colleges Universidad Anáhuac Xalapa and Universidad de Celaya, as well as Universidad de Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain. I have given lectures and workshops in many universities, design conferences and events in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina and most Latin American countries. I’ve been recipient of diverse awards, including five from the Type Directors Club of New York (TDC), two from the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), as well as the First Prize of the National Design Biennial in Mexico. In 2009, London-based publisher Phaidon selected my work for the book Area_2 among 100 of the most important emergent designers in the world today.

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Gaston Fuoco

Gastón Fuoco is a Graphic and Web Designer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He holds a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires and later attended the Master’s Degree in Typeface Design at the same University (2018/2019).

He has worked in several agencies and design studios and nowadays manages an in-house design team at a tech company. He is particularly interested in the technical aspect of typeface design and its implementation on digital media.

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Guillermo Vizzari

Guille Vizzari is a Graphic Designer, Type Designer and Letterer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He concluded his degree at the University of Buenos Aires, where he also obtained a postgraduate diploma as Type Designer.

After teaching at graduate and postgraduate courses at that house of studies, he met Yani Arabena, with whom he began to develop a personal project combining lettering with illustration and calligraphy, this being the first step that led them to work together.

His pursuit of learning and his passion for education also led him to continue his training with professionals such as Ken Barber, John Downer, Christopher Haannes, Silvia Cordero Vega, María Eugenia Roballos and Betina Naab, adding to his previous experience in the study of figurative drawing and illustration.

His typographic projects can be found mainly at Sudtipos, and in custom type design projects for various clients.

Along with Yani Arabena, they currently lead their studio «Yani & Guille» based in Buenos Aires, specialized in Calligraphy, Lettering and Type Design.

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Javirroyo

Creator of the brand of decorative wall stickers Chispum), in whichhe collaborates as an author as well. His designs and illustrations aredistributed in Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Korea and Latin America.

In this sense, he is the author of numerous graphic designprojects and humanization of spaces through illustrations, such as the firstintervention in a pediatric ambulance (the submarine ambulance) for the Hospitals of Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital de la Vall de Hebrón and the Pediatric Emergency Unit. He has alsodeveloped graphic projects and large format illustrations such as the one inthe hall of the Diagonal Clinic(Barcelona) and the Room Mate Emma Hotel.One of his latest projects is designing the brand identity and environmentaldesign for the Hing Yip Building in Hong Kong with La Granja Design Studio.

He is the creator of brands such as Robin Food for the cooking TV program of David de Jorge, (ETB andlater Telecinco), or the brand of Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona,??along with Diego Feijóo.

Illustrator for publishers such as Edelvives or Santillanaand for publications such as Interviú(illustrating Juanjo Millás), El País, El Semanal and Visual Designmagazine. In 2013, he illustrated the book by Lucía Etxebarría "Liquidationby Demolition" (Planeta).

In 2004 he published an essay on Digital Design, for the Paidós publishing house. A book on conceptsand fundamentals of graphic design that was distributed in Spain and LatinAmerica and translated into Portuguese.

This same year he was part of the writing team of the satiricalmagazine "The Mutant Virus"with Forges, Gallego and Rey, El Roto,Peridis and Pablo Carbonell. He is the founder, editor and author of El Estafador (www.elestafador.com), the best knownweekly online publication of graphic humor in Spanish language and the mostread one in the world. Also, it has collaborators from all over Latin America.

In 2015 he published "MartínBerasategui y David de Jorge" (PenguinRandom House), a comic book of recipes and illustrated biographies of thesetwo great chefs. In 2016, he received the JuncedaAward by the Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia withthis book he illustrated. In 2016 he published with David de Jorge and for PenguinRandom House a book on Tortilla dePatatas. He is also the author of several books on The Killer Onion. His last book is about the construction of aschool in Senegal, in whose project he continues participating: La Escuela.

In his teaching assignment he has been a lecturer at the European Institute of Design (Madridand Barcelona) and is currently professor in IDEP for the illustration master in Barcelona. He has developedworkshops of illustration in different places like Mexico, Japan, Cuba,Colombia and Senegal.

In 2017, his project for the design and signage of spaces for the UTAE clinic (Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu) has been selected as a finalist inthe Illustration World Awards amongthe 12 most important Environmental Illustration projects in the world.

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Joluvian

I’m a venezuelan freelance graphic designer based in Madrid. I was born and raised in Mérida, a city with the best weather ever, the most warming people and greatest-inspirational landscapes you have ever seen. I grew up drawing letters with stencil shapes and painting in the walls. I always noticed my father and grandfather handwritings, both of them really clean and stylized much like English style, that kind of got into me. I started drawing until my father put me in classes with pencil, pasty, charcoal and finally oleo, but like every other kid I finished painting graffiti’s in the streets. Later, I got serious and major in Graphic Design.

Most of my firsts years of working life I travel around a couple of countries where I learned different cultures and sides of the design. I spent a season working in Orlando, Florida, in a small printershop. I returned to Venezuela and spent another season working in Merida. A year later I went to Tijuana, Mexico where I worked in a design studio for one year. In 2005 I return to my country, but then to the capital, Caracas, where there was no more peaceful life, I lived there for five years working in the chaotic world of the advertising agencies. In the Ghersy Group I got to be Art Director, managing national and international brands as Brahma Beer (Brazil), Peugeot, Pfizer, among others. In between, I tried to develop more some hobbies that I always liked. I studied for a year cook, and major as a Chef and made some courses to become a pilates trainer. In 2009 I decided to enlarge my knowledge and came for a year to Madrid to study 3D, but this year became into 5 years and I think others will be more. I haven´t stop studying but know I mainly put my effort between two fields: calligraphy and illustration.

What have I become? Right now without never stop practicing and looking for more references I´m swimming between the pure calligraphy works and lettering designs that can get reloaded with illustrations and 3D details.

So, what can I say to you? Never forget why you started to study design. Everything that you will learn across your life will be useful in some way. Motivation and interest will be your greatest allies in this journey full of both color and diversity. Not always is going to be easy or well valued, money can become a barrier don’t let it; keep working for what makes you happy.

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Juliana Pedemonte

Colorblok founder Juliana Pedemonte’s illustration and motion graphic work first appeared on VH1, MTV and Nickelodeon Latin America in 2003. Born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, she remembers a happy creative childhood before moving to become a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires. Her work has been published in international media like Milan et demi from France, Stash magazine, Die Gestalten Verlag from Berlin and Idn and Victionary from Hong Kong.

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Julieta Ulanovsky

Julieta Ulanovsky lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is a graphic and type designer from the School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 1989, she partnered with Valeria Dulitzky to start ZkySky, a studio specializing in visual communication and design consulting.

She has co-authored the books El libro de los Colectivos (2005), Divino Barolo (2013), and Extraordinario Planetario (2019).

In 2011, she released Montserrat, a font that reached sixth place on a ranking of over 900 options on the Google Fonts platform.

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Kathy Milici

Kathy Milici is an internationally known calligrapher, designer, instructor and mentor. She happily admits to being obsessed with letters since early childhood. With a studio located in Newton, New Jersey, US, her work has been seen in national magazines and on television. A popular instructor for the Society of Scribes in New York City and at IAMPETH annual international calligraphy conferences, Kathy teaches both at home and travels the country, lecturing and teaching calligraphy and the related arts. The originator of “Gratitude Script,” a modern typeface in collaboration with Ale Paul, her work is both exhibited and commissioned by individuals and corporations alike, and is held in private collections all across the US. After almost 40 years as a professional calligrapher, Kathy is still enjoying her lifelong passion for “everything calligraphy.”

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Laura Varsky

Laura Varsky is a graphic designer and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Her first forays into the design world came through her involvement with the local independent rock scene. She gradually asserted herself as a designer, specializing in the design of books and CD sleeves. In 2006 she received a Latin Grammy as Art Director for best record packaging.

Four years after her graduation as a designer, she rediscovered the world of illustration working for editorial projects, several labels and artistic projects.

After 10-year professorship in Typography at the School of Design of the University of Buenos Aires, she continues coordinating worshops and giving lectures extensively throughout Latin America and Spain.

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Leandro Castelao

In the intersection of technology and nature Leandro Castelao (Buenos Aires, 1979) creates his complex visual language. Graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as a Graphic Designer Castelao’s work has been recognized by Communication Arts and American Illustration. His client list includes New York Times, Citi Bank, WWF and Delta Airlines.

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Lu Ronderos

Lu is a Visual Communication Designer and a Visual Discourse Specialized Bachelor graduated from the National University of La Plata. During 2015-2017 she was part of the very first cohort to study the Master Degree in Typography at the University of Buenos Aires.

Established in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, she directs her own design studio and loves sharing typography and design with great people in order to improve her work and enjoy the process.

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Lunol

Lu Nolasco "Lunol" is a Peruvian graphic designer and passionate about calligraphy, lettering and typography.

Discover this passion, in the city of Buenos Aires in 2012 where she was able to study with renowned teachers such as Silvia Cordero Vega, Marina Soria, Eugenia Roballos, Betina Naab, and in Lima with Jaime de Albarracin and Claude Dietrich.

From that moment, her training becomes constant and she also explores the field of lettering in workshops with Ale Paul, Yani and Guille, Martina Flor, etc.

She currently works from his Studio in Lima developing collaborations and new projects with the most important agencies and branding studios in the country. Along with Infinito, consultants won a bronze at the 2013 pentawards awards (London) where they presented Innato, a package where 80% of the design was calligraphy with a flexible pen.

Lunol has been able to apply calligraphy and lettering in projects of Branding, Packaging, Retail, Editorial, Events, etc.

This love for the letters has led her to continue spreading the calligraphy and the drawing of letters in conferences and talks. She dictates workshops from her studio on a frequent basis because she considers that the calligraphy and the drawing of letters is a beautiful legacy that we must preserve and treasure.

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Mara Nolze

Mara is a graphic and type designer from Germany. She graduated from the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel with a primary emphasis on type and book design. Her focus lies in the exploration of letters in the context of art, culture and literature, coupled with a keen interest in analog working methods.

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María Carla Mazzitelli

María Carla is a multidisciplinary designer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She got a degree in Graphic Design at FADU-UBA and, in 2017 she finished her Masters in Typography at the same University.

She’s passionate about typography and letters.

As part of amazing design teams and as an independent designer, María Carla has developed multiple editorial, communication and branding projects for Argentina, Chile, Brazil, China, Switzerland and the U.S.

She also has taken Calligraphy courses with Silvia Cordero Vega in Buenos Aires, and Paul Shaw, Laura Worthington and Shelley Gruendler in NYC.

Since 2005, María Carla works side by side with Professor Carlos Venancio and Professor Darío Contreras at FADU-UBA, assisting them in their Typography courses.

Her work has been selected to be part of different typography exhibitions such as Tipos Latinos and the Type Directors Club.

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Mariana Alen

Mariana is a Graphic Designer from Argentina. She graduated from University of Buenos Aires, where she also completed the postgraduate Career in Type Design and is currently completing a Master´s Degree in Typography.

She focused her career in editorial design, and worked for 10 years at Rolling Stone Argentina magazine as Head of Art.

Nowadays, she runs her own design studio and works on different projects and publications for graphic media from Argentina, Germany, Spain, Chile, Perú, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

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Mario Eskenazi

Mario Eskenazi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1969 to 1971, he worked with the design team at TV Channel 10 of the National University of Córdoba. He graduated as an architect in 1971 and has been living and working in Barcelona since 1974.

In 1977, he founded his own studio, Mario Eskenazi Studio, specializing in graphic design. The studio focuses on creating identity systems, signage, and interactive designs for various cultural and public institutions, publishing groups, and private companies.

Throughout his career, Eskenazi has worked on numerous prominent projects in areas such as corporate identity, signage, editorial design, and exhibition graphics. His work is characterized by a creative vision and innovative approach that have made a significant impact on the field of graphic design.

He has received numerous awards, including several Laus awards, nominations from the Art Directors Club in New York and the D&AD in London, and the prestigious National Design Award in 2000.

Mario Eskenazi has been a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 1997, highlighting his influence and prestige in the international graphic design community.

Gabriela Eskenazi

Gabriela Eskenazi was born in Barcelona in 1995. She graduated in Graphic Design from EINA (Escola de Disseny i Art) in Barcelona. Since 2019, she has been working as a Graphic Designer at Mario Eskenazi Studio.

Throughout her career, Gabriela has contributed to a variety of notable projects in corporate identity, signage, packaging design, and exhibition graphics. Her work is characterized by a blend of creativity and precision, reflecting the innovative spirit of contemporary graphic design.

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Martin Laksman

Illustrator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as graphic designer, where he now teachs illustration.

For over a decade, he's been working as both illustrator and graphic designer for the local market and abroad for a wide range of clients, that includes Popular Mechanics, Wired, Car & Driver, Fast Co., Fox, Disney, ESPN, Shado, Gawker Media, etc.

Influenced in popular culture: music, movies, art and series fuels his every day work with a strong passion for simplicity.

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Matías Paul

Freelance Illustrator · Concept Artist · Illustrator · Storyboard Artist · Character Designer

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Natalia Elichirigoity

Natalia is a Graphic Designer born in Buenos Aires. She got her degree at the FADU-UBA. Later on, she continued her studies taking different courses in fields she loves as Art History at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, photography and painting.

After working as Art Director in prominent graphic design firms and run her own studio, she decided to make a turn in her career and get into lettering applied to graphic design.

In Buenos Aires she attended workshops and courses with the most renowned calligraphers and typographers: Roballos Naab, Silvia Cordero Vega, Ale Paul and Christopher Haanes. She also took an intensive course at FADU post graduate school. Later, she strengthened her knowledge on this field attending lettering workshops at The Cooper Union conducted by Ken Barber, being these a breakpoint in the way she understood the construction of letters and its interaction with design.

Her work has been released for different international publishing houses as Art Quarter, Viction:ary, Die Gestalten Berlin and Taschen.

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Novia Jonatan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/noviajonatan/Novia is a letterer based in sunny Jakarta, Indonesia. She has been drawing letters since 2014. Her first love in lettering was script and flourishes, how ordinary everyday words could be portrayed and drawn into such a beautiful shapes mesmerized her.

She had works published in two books, (Hand style & Lettering by Viction:ary, HK; and Goodtype vol.2 published by Rizzoli, USA) and and she have been blessed to work with both small startups and major companies, from cafe in Seoul to book publisher in New York.

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Oscar Guerrero Cañizares

Colombian type designer with an extensive knowledge on typography, lettering and branding design. Over the last years he has designed several typefaces. These projects have a strong historical background which can be a perfect complement to different designs and communication environments. By the other hand, he works as a university teacher at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in the city of Bogotá.

His work has been selected to be part of international events and publications like the sixth Bienal Tipos Latinos competition 2014, Bienal Iberomericana de Diseño 2015. He won an award of excellence in Communication Arts Typography Annual 2016 and 2020, a silver prize in Latinamerican Design Awards 2019 and he was finalist in the Morisawa type competition in 2016.

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Oscar Yañez

Oscar Yáñez is a multidisciplinary design director & type designer, born and raised in Mexico City, based in Dubai, UAE. He specializes in editorial and type design, branding and infographics, but if you ask him, he will reply “I’m a storyteller.”

He studied design at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco, later he went for a Project Management specialization in the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a Master degree in Type Design, first class honors in Centro de Estudios Gestalt.

He was involved and leading designs and redesigns in more than 50 periodical publications – magazines, newspapers and websites – working for Time Inc Expansion, Editorial Televisa, Reforma, El Universal and Khaleej Times newspapers. Nowadays he is Group Design Director for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia.

His work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, Society of News Design, Communication Arts, Camara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, The Best Sport Design and Tipos Latinos.

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Pablo Alaejos Pérez

Pablo Alaejos Pérez was born in Barcelona in 1982 and loves the expression “discovering new worlds”. This is what took him to travel from his hometown to Buenos Aires in 2006 to start working as an Art Director in a famous advertising agency.

After this decision, he always has juggled not only advertising and graphic design but also Argentina and Spain.

In 2011 joined the Postgraduate in Typography at the University of Buenos Aires, where he went deeper still into this area of graphic design and start designing Landa, his first commercial typography.

Once he finished his studies he began classes in the same Postgraduate and in parallel, he threw himself into digital, joining the world referential company R/GA.

After soaking this knowledge up and collaborating with diverse startups, Pablo was promoted to Head of Art at Possible, where he led a design team of 16 people and worked for German clients such as Siemens, Deustche Bank or BMW.

Nowadays Pablo is living in Madrid, works as Creative Director in Picnic, teaches editorial design at the Istituto Europeo di Design and keeps discovering the world.

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Panco Sassano

Graphic designer, illustrator and passionate for typography, born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. He was partner in Smart! Grupo Creativo, where he specialized in Branding and visual identity.

With the desire to continue learning, in his leisure time, he explores with painting, muralism, lettering, and any kind of visual expression which allows him to broaden his creative horizons.

With extensive experience in visual identity and brand architecture, Panco currently works freelance out of Buenos Aires, Argentina, taking on visual identity projects as well as various illustration, calligraphy, lettering, and typeface design assignments for prominent design studios and advertising agencies in both Argentina and abroad.

He is a creative youngster who finds in design and art a more than comfortable way of life, to fulfill his yearning for learning and growing, both professionally and personally.

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Raul Plancarte

Master and specialist in Typographic Design, Brand Design, and Illustration. Graduated from the Master in Typographic Design at GESTALT (Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Diseño), for which he developed his complete Brand Identity System.

Among his most recognized collaborative works are the brand identities and the typographic family "Soberana" (typography of the Government of Mexico from 2012 to 2018), the typographic families of Grupo Comex and Librerías Gandhi.

Projects in multiple areas of public and private initiative, such as: governmental, medical, musical, cinematographic, etc.... In which stand out the graphic communication design of: La Costeña, Yucatan (tourist brand), Ubhuru Technologies (US medical corporate), GEPP Group, Regional Carnivals of Mexico, Coppel, Tequila Jarana, among others.

He has participated in conferences and workshops in different cities in Mexico, USA and Colombia. And he has received recognition in all editions of the Latin Type Biennial Awards, Logolounge. Design Awards, Clap. Including publications for interviews in books and magazines.

He currently works in his studio in white Merida, Yucatan.

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Sael

Jose Alfonso aka SAEL is a celebrated multi-diciplinary contemporary artist and designer originally from Mar de Plata Argentina.

SAELs universe radiates outwards from his home base in Buenos Aires where he is constantly infusing the world with imagination , beauty and inspiration. His work bridges the gap between different genres and is a powerful and graphic hybrid of fine art, illustration, graphic design, public intervention and murals. His lines, color and geometry is instantly recognizable and and a unique language that translates seamlessly from two dimensions into three dimensions. Sael believes that hard work is where everything stems from and that it is what inspires and surprises. Happiness, the desire to create and the universal nature of his work has guided him and placed him in a context where he can work as a power unit pushing the limits and scope of his work with each completed project.His work has most recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art inBuenos Aires. Argentina.

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Sergio Leiva Whittle

Professional graphic designer specialized in editorial, branding and digital publications, working with various european design agencies and NGOs. Self-taught type designer and co-founder of Untype foundry designing original high quality fonts and custom projects for several clients.

Diploma in Typography of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2017). Since 2012 selected in the Bienal Latinoamericana Tipos Latinos and awarded with Type Excellence in two ocassions (2014 and 2016).

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SinergiaLab

Project by Claudio Pousada involving illustrators.

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Sol Matas

Sol Matas is an Argentinian type designer born in Buenos Aires. She holds a degree in Graphic Design from Universidad de Buenos Aires, as well as a specialization degree in Digital Design and a postgraduate diploma in Type Design from the same school.

She started her career as a graphic designer at the Saatchi & Saatchi agency. In 2001, she founded her own branding studio Sonnenshine, through which she has been working for clients in Latin America, Europe and the United States.

She co-founded the type foundry Huerta Tipografica with fellow Argentinian designers in 2009. In 2013, after many visits to Berlin and discovering the large type community there, she decided to move to this city. Since then, she has focused on developing font projects in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Oriya and Devanagari. In 2019, she founded her own type venture, Hungry Type Society.

She has repeatedly lectured on type design, and given numerous workshops in events and schools in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Her type projects were selected for the Bienal Tipos Latinos and the International Typography Congress in Valencia.

She is a member of Alphabettes, she collaborates for Typographica, and she is part of the Typostammtisch team in Berlin.

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Stefanie Schwarz

Stefanie Schwarz is a communication designer with a focus on typography and type design currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. Besides her design practice she teaches at Bauhaus University Weimar.

Stefanie studied in Germany and the U.S. before completing her M.A. at Central Saint Martins in London. In 2013 she founded the Typographic Research Lab Open2Type together with Dirk Wachowiak and became an associate of the London-based institution DesignScience.

Her work has been published in design magazines like Page, Novum, Form and Slanted, and received a number of international honors, e.g. 2x Prize Nominee Work (Tokyo Type Directors Club), 100 Best Posters Germany Austria Switzerland and 5x Certificate of Typographic Excellence (Type Directors Club New York).

Stefanie has (guest) lectured or held workshops at various institutions like Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (GER), School of Design Pforzheim University (GER), Hochschule Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (GER), Royal College of Art (UK), Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (UK), Kingston University London (UK), Imperial College London (UK) and Winchester School of Art (UK).

Her typefaces have been released by FontFont (Berlin), the Indian Type Foundry (Ahmedabad), T26 (Chicago) and most recently by Sudtipos.

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Valeria Duarte

My main studies include graphic design and photography. I like trying out and playing with every tool that can be related to the visual communication field, such as painting, drawing, calligraphy, collage, photomontage, aquarelle, etc. I specialize in editorial design for newspapers. Within photography, I focus mostly on documentalism and photo essays. I also teach design. I work in teams and by myself too. I wander between orthodox methodology and spontaneous experimentation. I travel as much as I can to learn new things and expand my horizons. I never stop studying or attending conferences, workshops and training courses. I enjoy taking risks, like when I perform aerial silk. I live in a medium-sized city. I often take delight in exploring different worlds, like cinemas, books or rural landscapes. The key to my success? I’d say a bit of curiosity and a lot of persistence.

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Vanessa Zuñiga Tinizaray

Known as "Amuki" (inner silence), Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray, is an Ecuadorian designer. Her passion has led her to investigate the visual signs of the ancestral cultures of Latin America. In a stage of globalization, her mission is to design, share and teach people to revalue the Latin American cultural heritage, to amplify and translate it globally. Her intention is to learn to appreciate and celebrate that heritage with pride and without prejudice.

Her achievements, after 17 years experimenting in the research project "Visual Chronicles of the Abya Yala", have led her to be a finalist, win an award and two mentions in the Ibero-American Design Biennial, some of her experimental typefaces have been selected in Bienal Tipos Latinos and with her book she has obtained a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club, and she has also given workshops and talks in Francia, EEUU (online), Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Ecuador, teaching Latin American youth the importance of research in the creative process.

Together with Alejandro Paul, the Kinetic typography project for Sudtipos obtained a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club of New York (2019).

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Xavier Dupré

Xavier Dupré (1977) studied graphic design in Paris and calligraphy/type design at the Scriptorium de Toulouse. He began working in 1999 as lettering artist in a Parisian design agency for two years. Since 2001, when he published his first typefaces, he spend much of his time between Europe and Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia where he drew latin typefaces as well as khmer scripts for local NGOs (Sipar, CKS, Open Institute).

His work is also published by FontFont, Émigré, Typofonderie or TypeTogether and some have received awards from the Type Director’s Club of New York or Tokyo.

Xavier is collector of vintage movie posters and Art déco illustrated books.

In 2016, a book, Xavier Dupré typographical itinerary, published by Zeug, features most of his typefaces with a long interview by Julien Gineste.

(link to this book "Xavier Dupré typographical itinerary"

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Ximena Jimenez

Based in Bogotá, Ximena Jiménez is a Colombian lettering artist and designer specialized in muralism, branding and apparel design.

She was born and raised in Cali, Colombia where she studied Graphic Design at the University of Fine Arts.

In 2014, she traveled to Buenos Aires where she lived for 5 years and fully dedicated herself to study different styles of calligraphy, lettering and typography which started her passion for drawing letters. Since then, she has been drawing letters in different styles and surfaces because what she enjoys most is versatility.

Her work has led her to visit different countries and continents, where she has had the pleasure of painting walls and canvases, giving workshops and talks.

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Yanina Arabena

Yani Arabena is a Graphic Designer, Type Designer and Calligrapher born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She obtained her diploma at the University of Palermo, and later completed the postgraduate Career in Type Design at the University of Buenos Aires –where she also taught for 8 years.

She always admired Calligraphy and that was how she met who would end up being her mentor in this field, Silvia Cordero Vega. Throughout her calligraphic education and related to the world of letters also studied with John Stevens, Christopher Haannes, Ken Barber, John Downer, María Eugenia Roballos and Betina Naab.

Her notorious interest in Calligraphy applied to Graphic Design –along with the development of a calligraphic style of her own–, lead her to relate with design in a different way, also applying these resources in typographic projects as «Abelina Pro», «Quotes» and «Envelove», which are part of Sudtipos’ catalog.

Along with Guille Vizzari, they currently lead their studio «Yani & Guille» based in Buenos Aires, specialized in Calligraphy, Lettering and Type Design.

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