Advisory Committee

Graphic designer and director of commercial art. Ex general director of the Metropolitan Center of Design (CMD) and general director of Cultural Industries and Design, which is linked to the Ministry of Production of the City Government. Promoter and coordinator of the first Argentine incubator for undertakings based on design, industrial, cultural and touristic projects, IncuBA (2001). He promoted and coordinated the election of Buenos Aires as City of Design with the program of the Global Alliance of Creative Cities created by UNESCO.

Industrial designer from the National University of Cuyo. As cultural manager, from 2010 to 2011, he coordinated the Design area of the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires / AECID. Head of Fundación del Interior, an institution specialized in heritage of modern art, design and architecture. Director of MEC (Museo en Construción), a virtual platform for collecting. Curator for COLBO and Jannello Editora, reedition project of modern design. Publisher specialized in arts and design. His most recent publication: Feria de América, Vanguardia Invisible, 2012.

Graphic designer. For 40 years, he has been leading Estudio Fontana Diseño. His graphic work is, among others, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From 1987 to 2006, he edited and directed the well-known magazine tipoGráfica, one of the most important in Latin America. He led the Bienal Letras Latinas, that was simultaneously carried out in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Montevideo, San Pablo and Puerto de Veracruz. He is director of the master degree in Typography at Buenos Aires University.

Graduate of Graphic Design at University of Pacific in Santiago de Chile, she has been a leading professor for 14 years in Bolivian universities. Among them, UPSA in Santa Cruz and Católica de La Paz, where she founded the undergraduate course in graphic design and visual communication in 2003. She is active in the promotion of graphic design and she was a correspondent for Bolivia in Icograda. Also, she has been the general director of Catalográfica 2002 publications – the first magazine of Illustration and Graphic Design, and coordinator of the 1^st Bienal Iberoamericana del cartel in 2003. The past few years, she has been serving as general consul in Miami.

For 12 years, she was professor of Design Visual Communication at University Center Senacy, which is part of the Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) in Sao Paulo. In 1989 she co-founded the Association of Graphic Designers of Brazil (ADG-BRASIL) and was the director for four periods. She was a fellow of the Design collegiate body at the Council of Public Politics of Brazilian Ministry of Culture in 2013 and 2014. Now, she is a fellow of the Chairmanship of the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño. She also participated in the editorial board of Communication Design, a research publication about Design at the Ico-D (International Council of Design) and she is the director of the design studio Estudio Infinito.

Designer. He has been designer and design project manager for the Department of Systems at the Faculty of Engineering which is part of Catholic University of Chile. He has also been professor of design in University Diego Portales. In 1986, he founded with three professionals the company Proyectos Corporativos Ltda, today Procorp. Expresident of the Chilean Association of Design Companies, Qvid. In 2005, he founded and in 2007 he led the ChileDiseño awards.

Industrial Designer and Engineering Master. He is senior general coordinator of Engineering-Design at the Engineering School of P. Catholic University of Chile. From 2007 to 2009, he was President of the International Council of Industrial Design Associations (ICSID), of which today, he is senator. He was rewarded woth the distinction “Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland” for his contribution to the development of Design education, innovation and promotion in Chile and Finland. From 1992 to 2010, he was director of the Design School of Duoc UC, Chile. He led projects and initiatives encompassing business, engineering, design, innovation, management and technology in Asia, Africa and Europe. Today, he is design director of the Region of Innovation in Design. Since 2002, he is an honorary member of the Chilean Design Association.

Industrial designer. Cofounder and director of the Magazine Proyecto Diseño in Bogota. Through the platform www.proyectod.com and the design desk DdD which he led, he created spaces of concrete spreading design activities in Colombia with an international projection. Proyecto D organizes the design award Lápiz de Acero and formed the group COPLA, composed of jury and winners from 22 categories of the award during 10 editions.

Industrial designer. Cofounder and director of the Magazine Proyecto Diseño in Bogota. Through the platform www.proyectod.com and the design desk DdD which he led, he created spaces of concrete spreading of design activities in Colombia with an international projection. Proyecto D organizes the design award Lápiz de Acero and formed the group COPLA, composed by jury and winners from 22 categories of the award during 10 editions.

Architect and designer, graduate of the University La Sapienza in Roma, Italia. He has acquired a wide-ranging professional and international portfolio not only as a design advisor, but also as a consultant on the European Union and United Nation Projects (UNDP) for the development of design capacities in several countries in Southern Asia, the Mediterranean and Latin America. In Costa Rica, he founded and led the undergraduate course on Industrial Design at the Technologic Institute of Costa Rica. Later, he was the director of  the Design School of Products in the University of Veritas, which he also led from its opening from 2002 to 2010. Today, he is academic dean in the University of Veritas. In parallel, he is a freelance professional.

Costa Rican communicator, graduate in Spanish philology. Her work has been centered priarily around magazines. She also has edited books and historical memoirs. As publisher of the magazine Soho Costa Rica (2004-2009) and Su Casa (2008-2011), she has experience in different styles of magazines, promoting the critical integration of both fundamental speeches of the publishing world: form and content. Today, she participates in, and helps, independent projects. She is publisher of the magazine Orsai de Habitar, Colegio de Arquitectos of Costa Rica and she collaborates for the Central American magazine Rara. She is part of the team of Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in Costa Rica.

Industrial designer. He has been dean and vice rector of the undergraduate course on Industrial Design. Now he is rector of Instituto Superior de Diseño ISDI de la Habana, where he himself graduated from. Masters Degree in Management and Innovation in Design, Doctorate in Management in Design from the University of Valencia, Spain. As a professor and a professional he has developed courses, projects and advised on Design in Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain and Venezuela. He has been recognised with these awards Premios Anuales de Diseño de la Oficina Nacional de Diseño of Cuba and el Reconocimiento al Mérito from the Ministry of Economics and the Ministry of Superior Education of the Cuban Republic.

Specialized Grafic designer in logos and corporate image. He is a painter, illustrator and engraver. His works are in the Modern Art Museum of New York (MOMA). The past years, he has been specializing in fashion (clothes, tapestries and carpets). He was a professor of Design at Escuela de Bellas Artes in Guayaquil, University Laica of Guayaquil and School of Communication Mónica Herrera of Guayaquil.

Designer, sculptor and painter. His work has been displayed in principal cultural and artistic centers in France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and  the United States. Some of his famous designs belong to logos widely known in Spain: ONCE, Anaya, Paradores, RENFE, teléfono Domo, MAPFRE, Junta de Andalucía, Biblioteca Nacional, Casa de América, etc. Among his awards he counts the Nacional de Diseño in 1989 and la Medalla de Plata del American Institute Graphic Arts. In 2006, he became the first designer joining la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Designer. Founder and President of Fundación Diseño Madrid (DIMAD) and Executive President of Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID). Specialist in Graphic Design, he stands out in the field of publishing and corporate design. His studio is only the second to receive the Certificado por AENOR for Systems Quality (NormaISO9001) and Medio Ambiente (Environment) (NormaISO14000). Of his outstanding works we can mention the Premios Cervantes, Alianza Editorial, Fundación Repsol and several cover pages of books published by the newspaper El País. He has been recognised with different awards and distinctions, including el Laus, Art Directors Club of Europe and recently the Good Design Chicago 2014. He is a fellow of Consejo de Enseñanzas Artísticas de España.

He has studied Philosophy and he is a graduate of Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca. He has taught at EAE Business School Madrid, the University Complutense of Madrid, Instituto Europeo de Design, the Schools of Arts n10 and 12, and Escuela Superior de Diseño of Madrid. Currently he works for the design studios LSDspace and Un Mundo Feliz. He has published three books about design: Pictopía (Promopress 2008). Imagomundi (Promopress 2011), The new Disasters of War (Ruina/Boldbooks 2012). His work has been selected and published all over the world. He has been a commissioner of different expository projects.

Graphic Designer and artist. He is an honorable fellow of the Fundación Diseño Madrid. Head professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Mexico and guest professor at the University Altos del Chavón, Dominican Republic. He is an international adviser for the International Conference of Design, Mexico DF, and an International Liaison in Mexico for the Type Directors Club, New York, and National Delegate of Association Typographique Internationale, Paris. In 1988, he founded the Archivo de Diseño Gráfico Internacional, Latin America’s first exhibition on international graphic design.

Industrial Designer, and doctorate of Architecture. He dedicates himself to professional practice, teaching and academic management, as well as research. Currently he leads the Postgraduate Program in Industrial Design at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He was president and founder of Colegio de Diseñadores Industriales y Gráficos de Mexico, secretary of the Latin American Association of Industrial Design and vice-president of Academia Mexicana de Diseño. Since 1994, he has worked in and founded Comités Interinstitucionales for the Evaluation of Educación Superior in Mexico (CIEES), in the area of Architecture and Design.

Graduate in Graphic Design from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM), specialist and Master of Design in New Technologies. She studied psychology of advertising at the University Complutense of Madrid. Her works have been presented during national and international exhibitions, including the International Mail Art, Elite International, Festival Cervantino, Graphic Intervention and Fun-Fan, among others. Since 1994, she has been freelance, with her participation standing out in 1995 as a collaborator for Coordination of Design for Graphic Communication at UAM, as well as her permanent work since 1993 for Félix Beltran and Asociados.