Letrástica 6

Ying Chang

Ying Chang is a lettering artist whose practice is built from rhythm, repetition, and attention. Working with letters is her way of thinking and staying present, a principle she also brings into calligraphy, type, and design. Her work centers on endurance, process, and the ongoing negotiation between precision and imperfection.

Kenji Nakayama

Kenji Nakayama is a visual artist and sign painter born in Hokkaido, Japan. He trained as a mechanical engineer, but in 2004 moved to Boston to study sign painting at the now-defunct Butera School of Art.

Armando Pineda

A professor for more than 17 years at several Mexican universities, he was coordinator of the Specialization in Typographic Innovation at CENTRO, Design, Film and Television, where he currently teaches courses related to typography and type design.

Nina Stoessinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type, an independent typeface design firm in Brooklyn NY, and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several award-winning retail typefaces (most recently, Cassis and Edgar, the latter designed together with Tobias Frere-Jones), Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for the New York City Football Club, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Microsoft, and SAS Institute, among others. 

Museo del Periodismo y las Artes Gráficas

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The Museum of Journalism and Graphic Arts shares the history of journalism and media in Guadalajara through exhibitions, a library, workshops, and public programs. It is located in a historic house in Guadalajara where the city’s first printing press was founded and where, in 1810, El Despertador Americano was printed, considered the first independent newspaper in the Americas.