Manuel is a graphic designer, specializing in digital typeface design.
Holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and a postgraduate degree in Typeface Design.
His work has been included in four editions of the Latin-American Typography Biennial.
He is a member of ATypI,and contributing designer at PampaType foundry.
Romina is a designer from Mexico City. She first trained as a Bachelor in Industrial Design, but quickly developed a passion for letters and devoted most of her time to learning calligraphy, typography and type design. While working at a small graphic design shop, she earned a post diploma in ”Type Innovation” (whatever that means) from centro university and then, not having had enough of it, moved to The Hague for another year of type at TypeMedia. She’s currently back in Mexico doing freelance type work, making tea and petting cats.
Frida is a digital and type designer from Monterrey, Mexico. She has worked for one of the most important design agencies in the country - Anagrama. Besides her work in type design with a high-contrast typeface Kalnia, she also specializes in variable typography developing projects such as Jabin.
Guido is a graphic designer and developer born in Cordoba, Argentina. His work focuses on the intersection between type design and technology and he specializes in the font production and creating Python tools for font editing applications and encoded graphics.
He collaborates with other designers and type foundries in solving problems and increasing productivity by developing tools to improve workflows.
Sandra has a degree in Graphic Design from the Universidad del Área Andina, Colombia. Master in Typographic Design by the Centro de Estudios Gestalt, Mexico. Currently teaching at the Universidad de la Comunicación, Mexico. Speaker at national and international conferences. She has developed the project «Collectiva» a font for signage and collaborated in the design of the typographic family «Woun Iek» (www.tipografiawounaan.com) for the native Wounaan Colombian language.
Juan Villanueva is a Brooklyn-based typeface designer, letterer, and educator.
He grew up in Lima, Peru and spent his teenage years in Clifton, NJ before pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design, Illustration and Animation from Montclair State University. His heart is in both places and his work reflects the best of both languages and cultures.
He currently spends his days designing typefaces at Monotype. He’s worked on custom typefaces for Tencent and Google, and contributed to type releases including Helvetica Now, Walbaum, and Sagrantino.