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Raquel Pelta is a design historian, Doctor in the Faculty of Fine arts of the University of Barcelona, graduate in Geography and History, in Audiovisual Communication, in Advertisement and Public Relations and has a masters in Knowledge Society. Since March 2006, she has taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, and she is a member of the consolidated research group GRACMON.<\/p>\n
She has taught in the University Rey Juan Carlos, the Elisava School, the University of Valladolid and the European Institute of Design of Madrid \u2013 where she was the Academic director of the graduate school \u2013 among other centers. From 2000 to 2006, she was the spokesperson of the Directive Board of the ADGFAD (Art Directors and Graphic Designers Association). This\u00a0public university has taught design courses since 1981, the year in which teaching activities specialized in design were due to began, in order to complete the specifications of the 1978 syllabus.<\/p>\n Whereas in the last syllabus of the Faculty of Fine Arts (1996 LRU and 2001 reform) these specialties and any reference to them had disappeared, the teaching of design kept going through elective groups that promoted the specialization of the profession. This\u00a0willingness of these elective groups allowed\u00a0a lot of Fine Arts graduates to join the design labor market successfully, in an out of the city of Barcelona.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Spain Design historian, Doctor\u00a0for the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10079,"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions\/10079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bid-dimad.org\/septimoencuentro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShe is the Director of the online magazine Monogr\u00e1fica<\/em>, (which received the Prize of the city of Barcelona in 2012) and between 2001 and 2004, she managed the magazine Visual<\/em>.
\nShe is the founder and director of the International Congress of Typography which has been celebrated in Valencia on a two-yearly basis since 2004.
\nShe organized courses in universities and institutions and gave lectures in a large number of centers and institutions. She is the author of several publications concerning design of which\u00a0most noteworthy is the book Dise\u00f1ar hoy<\/em> (Designing today), edited by Pa\u00eddos.
\nShe curated expositions, among others: Each letter tells a story, Typography design in Spain since 1990, Enric Crous Vidal and the latin spelling, Eduardo Mu\u00f1oz Bachs, Garc\u00eda Fonts & Co, Ten years of independent typography in Spain, Without limits and designers for a myth, Tribute to Toulouse Lautrec.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIn 2011, she received the prize Gr\u00e0ffica for her contribution to the history of Spanish graphic design and for her ability to promote projects concerning design.
\nIn 2015, she received the Laus of Honor for \u201cher path and contribution to Spanish graphic design and her tenacity to promote projects concerning design.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nUniversity of Barcelona<\/strong><\/h3>\n