Ángel Alonso Blanco

Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, 6 de marzo de 1967. Artista plástico. Graduado en
la Academia San Alejandro, 1987.

Abel Nova Bonet
Septiembre 1973, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba

Graduado del Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial de la Habana, en el año 1996, en la especialidad de Hábitat (Diseño de interiores) con el mejor diploma de esa graduación. He realizado cursos de post-grado en Diseño de maquinarias.

Comencé en la Agencia de Publicidad "Grafos" de la Corporación Cubalse, trabajando como diseñador gráfico y de interiores por 5 años. En el año 2001 comencé a trabajar en Uniprint, proyecto de impresión off-set y digital, bajo la asesoría técnica española e italiana. Realicé trabajos de diseño e impresión desde plataforma Windows y Macintosh, para ser producidos en el exterior.

Actualmente trabajo como free lancer. He realizado proyectos como el diseño de los catálogos del 10mo. y 11no. Salón de Premiados del CDAV, el diseño de la imagen, campaña promocional, y el proyecto de señalética de la Feria Internacional del Libro Cuba 2006, el diseño de la revista semestral el Correo del libro entre otros.

Soy miembro de la UNEAC (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba), ACCS (Asociación Cubana de Comunicadores Sociales), y ADAVIS (Agencia de Derecho del Autor Visual).

He recibido varios reconocimientos como:
- 4to. Lugar, Premio MEXINOX, México 1994. Mesa Ortopédica Pediátrica
- 1er. Lugar, Premio Diseño de Cartel por el 150 Aniversario del natalicio
de José Martí, Cuba 2004 "El hombre es superior a la palabra"
- Premio y selección mejor diseño de Humidor para tabacos en el Aniversario
10 de la Empresa INTERTABAK, Suiza 2004

Juan Carlos Viera Bravo
Junio de 1963, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba

Graduado del Instituto Politécnico de Diseño Industrial (IPDI), en la especialidad de ilustración y diseño informacional, año 1984.

En el año 1985 comienzo a trabajar como diseñador gráfico en el DOR. En año 1989 comienzo a trabajar en la agencia de publicidad Coral S.A. como diseñador gráfico hasta 1997 en que paso a desempeñarme como director creativo. Actualmente soy director creativo de PUBLICITUR S.A. Soy miembro UNEAC (Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba) y de la ACCS (Asociación Cubana de Comunicadores Sociales).

Durante mi trayectoria profesional e recibido algunos premios siendo los más significativos:

- Premio Anuncio Publicitario de la UPEC. Anuncio de la Clínica Cira García. Año 1990
- Primer Premio en el Salón Nacional de la Gráfica. (Cartel impreso) Año 1991
- Mención. Premios de Diseño (Oficina Nacional de Diseño Industrial) ONDI. Año 1995
- Primer Premio Concurso Nacional de Logotipo para el Centro Nacional de Vacunas, actualmente Instituto Finlay. Año 1996
- Primer Premio Concurso Internacional para el identificador de la APAV
(Asociación Portuguesa de Agentes de Viajes)
- Premio Espacio (Asociación Cubana de Publicitarios y Propagandistas).
Campaña de comunicación para Tiendas Universo. Año 1997
- Gran Premio Diseño de Stand "Festival del Habano". Año 1999
- Primer Premio Diseño de Stand "Feria Internacional del Transporte". Año 1999
- Premio Diseño de Stand Brascuba Cigarrillos S.A. Feria Internacional de La Habana FIHAV 2000
- Premio Espacio (Asociación Cubana de Publicitarios y Propagandistas).
Anuncio Tienda Virtual Óptica Miramar. Año 2001
- Segundo Premio en el Concurso Nacional de Carteles por el "Día Mundial de
Lucha contra en SIDA" Año 2005
- Premio "TOCORORO" III Festival Internacional de Comunicación de Bien Público 2005

Clinton Carlson, United States

Clinton has been designing for ten years. Spending time in Nebraska, Seattle and now Edmonton, Canada. He is currently finishing his Masters of Design degree in Visual Communication Design at the University of Alberta. His research is focused on exploring methods for increasing the participation of communities in the design of health-related campaigns for small-scale community settings. His design practice focuses on design and illustration for international non-profit and non-government organizations. In the fall of 2006 he will be returning to the prairies to teach design at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.



Stephanie Cunningham, United States

Stephanie Cunningham is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and the Associate Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Art History at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She serves as co-president for the Miami chapter of AIGA. Stephanie received a BFA in Industrial Design from the Kansas City Art Institute under a partial scholarship and an MFA in Design from the University of Notre Dame under a full tuition fellowship. She has worked in the design field variously as a professional designer and educator for 19 years. Her design interests encompass a broad continuum from
the practical to the conceptual. Her interest in design sustainability is inspired in part by her educational background in Industrial Design and her travels abroad. Stephanie’s work has been exhibited widely and recognized by a number of awards and acquisitions. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including, Big Book of Logos, Prix Ars Electronica, The Computer in the Visual Arts, and Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design. She has presented at numerous conferences including the AIGA Future History Conference in 2004 and the AIGA Jacksonville Recharge Conference in 2004. She was selected as a recipient of the Duane Hanson Allied Artist Award by the Broward County Cultural Division and recently served in that capacity on the Master Plan for Public Art at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport.


Idania Del Rio, Cua

Nací en el año del gallo, 1981, y no recuerdo cuál año era cuando empecé a estudiar en la universidad del diseño, ISDI. Quizá le debo a la casa de cultura de Bauta la pasión por la ilustración y a mi niñez de edificios de cuatro pisos en el Pueblo Textil el gusto por ilustrar para niños. Con la Editorial Gente Nueva he hecho varios libros, con Camaleón* he crecido como profesional y como persona, incursionando en varias áreas del diseño y la ilustración desde una perspectiva alternativa.

De mis trabajos de diseño disfruté mucho la campaña visual del 12 festival de teatro de la habana, desde mi trabajo en la Casa Editorial tablas-alarcos, he estado vinculada con el teatro y su promoción, también he realizado varios carteles: para la cinemateca de cuba, por su 45 aniversario, con el CENESEX, por la lucha contra el SIDA, entre otros. Mi última emoción es el audiovisual, donde en la Casa Editorial tablas-alarcos he encontrado un laboratorio muy apropiado, hemos hecho 2 spots y vamos camino del tercero.

He obtenido varios premios y menciones, Premio Espacio 2005 y Gaucho de Oro en el II Forum Social de Publicidad y Comunicación como los más notorios, he participado en exposiciones colectivas de ilustración y cartel, siendo la última el "Homenaje al 400 Aniversario de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" y mi nombre es Idania del Río González.

* Grupo de ilustradores y diseñadores gráficos

Lehaz Flax, United States

Lehze Flax is the founder of Flaxland, a freelance design studio located east of downtown San Diego, fifteen minutes from the US-Mexico border. Her studio’s mission is to pursue higher communication and design standards for social service, community, and cultural organizations, locally and internationally. A strategic and holistic designer, she helps designers define their identity, brainstorm innovative campaigns, and create unity between audiences of different backgrounds. Lehze was recently the designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, where she worked with 2x4 Design to launch a new identity. She continued to design ad produce all exhibition, membership, and promotional materials for the Museum. Her catalogue for the national retrospective Manny Farber: About Face earned an award for the American Association of Museums. She has done work for the Yale Univerity Press, Rizzoli International, SITE Sante Fe, The Santa Fe Opera, and many other local and national culture organizations and businesses.

Originally from Boston, Lehze has traveled worldwide and worked in design offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Amsterdam; South Africa; and Mexico. She has run her own boutique retail shop in a desert mining town, studied holistic healing practices, and kayaked in Alaska, Mozambique and Baja California. Lehze earned an MFA in Design from CalArts, after a year of study at Cranbrook Academy of Art, when she co-taught a workshop at École Cantonale d`art de Lausanne, Switzerland. She earned her BA in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard-Radcliffe, where she learned a few things
about life and its mysteries but a lot more about smart thinking. She invites you to join her in putting it to use.

Philip Foeckler, United States

Philip Foeckler has worked as Visual Designer, Interaction Designer and Artist in Europe and America. Restless and always exploring, he first studied Political Sciences in Berlin, then Film and Art in Santa Fe. In 2001 he received his BFA cum laude in Graphic Design at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has been recognized and published internationally for his academic and professional work. After working at M-A-D for several years he joined frog design in 2005.

Carole Goodman, United States
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Queens College, The City University of New York Principal, Blue Anchor Design

Carole Goodman has been working as an educator since 1996 at venerable schools such as the School of Visual Arts, Pratt, and Parsons. She was given the honor of developing the Graphic Design major at Queens College, where she has worked for the past three years as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design. She is proud of how some her her students have pursued graduate study at prestigious art schools and have gotten jobs at famous publishing houses and design studios.

Additionally, she has her own design practice, Blue Anchor Design, which is the name of the town in which she grew up in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Carole has designed book jackets, book interiors, CD packaging, t-shirts, logotypes and identity systems, and other corporate collateral for clients including Alfred A. Knopf, Chronicle Books, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Another little known fact is that Carole's brother is the award-winning illustrator, Michael Klein. To date, they have collaborated on two books and designed a t-shirt line together.

This Is Not It, a book she designed for D.A.P., was among the books shown in AIGA's 50 Books 50 Covers. Carole has also received recognition from the Type Directors' Club, the Western Art Directors' Club, Communication Arts, Print, How, and Step.


Laura Elena Llópiz, Cuba
Casal. La Habana, 1977

Graduada del Instituto Superior de Diseño (ISDI) en el año 2000. Trabaja como diseñadora gráfica en la editorial Artecubano, y como profesora de tipografía en el ISDI. Es también creadora independiente.

Diseña catálogos de exposiciones y libros de arte para pintores cubanos. Con uno de ellos obtuvo Premio de Diseño "Raúl Martínez" en el año 2002. Ha diseñado también discos de música, carteles y revistas.

Tomó parte del equipo de curadores que organizó la importante exposición "Diseño de Fin de Siglo", una antoogía de la gráfica cubana contemporánea, que fue posteriormente reconocida como "Premio Nacional de Curaduría" en el año 2001.

Sus trabajos han participado de exposiciones colectivas en Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador y Japón. Los libros "El cartel de cine en Cuba" (Editorial El Gran Caid, España, 2004) y "World Wide Identity" (Rockport Publishers, EE.UU., 2005) incluyen ejemplos de diseños suyos.

Es miembro del Comité Prográfica Cubana y de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).

Francisco Masvidal
Ciudad de La Habana, 1947
fjmasvidal@cubarte.cult.cu

Es miembro de la UNEAC y Vicepresidente del Comité Prográfica cubana

Ha recibido numerosos premios entre ellos: Medalla de Plata, Mención honorífica en el Concurso Internacional del Arte del Libro -IBA- efectuado en Leipzig, 1970.
Medalla de Oro en el Concurso Internacional del Cartel Turístico, Manila, Filipinas, 1975.
Medalla de Oro en el Concurso “El Libro más Bello”, celebrado en Kniga, Moscú, 1980
Seis primeros premios, seis segundos premios y menciones honoríficas en el Salón Nacional de Propaganda Gráfica 26 de Julio, por diseño de libros, carteles y revistas Desde 1979 hasta 1999.
Cinco primeros premios, cuatro segundos premios y menciones en el Concurso del "Arte del Libro" hasta su XII Salón.
Por su aporte a la cultura cubana ha recibido importantes reconocimientos tales como:
Medalla Alejo Carpentier.
Premio Nacional de Diseño, Raúl Martínez 2002
Diploma Honorífico por 25 años de labor como diseñador de libros, 1993.
Distinción y Medalla por la Cultura Nacional, 1993
Medalla de Plata: 150 Aniversario del Natalicio de Máximo Gómez, 1986


Marc Oxborrow, United States

Raised on a steady diet of books and magazines, Marc Oxborrow turned his lifelong love of reading and publications into a career as a magazine designer. His interest in Latin America and the Caribbean began as a 5-year-old, when his family moved to Mexico City, Mexico. Today, after stops in Puerto Rico, Tennessee, New York and Virginia, Marc is the creative director of McMurry, a marketing communications firm in Phoenix, Arizona. He lives with his wife Mitzi and an embarrassingly large number of cats and dogs.


Nelson Ponce, Cuba

En 1998 me graduo de Diseñador Gráfico en el Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial de La Habana (ISDI).
Desde 1998 hasta el 2004 trabajé en la Empresa de Tecnologías de la Información y Servicios Telemáticos (CITMATEL) diseñando la interfaz de usuario de páginas Web y multimedias. Actualmente laboro en la Casa de las Américas en la promoción de eventos culturales y diseñando alguna de sus publicaciones, compartiendo este trabajo con actividades pedagógicas. Desde 1998 imparto clases de Ilustración y Cartel en el ISDI. He impartido conferencias sobre estos temas en universidades de Brasil y Bolivia. Además soy creador independiente y por esta vía me he vinculado fundamentalmente a instituciones culturales haciendo trabajos de diseño gráfico e ilustración con el grupo Camaleón. Este trabajo ha sido expuesto dentro y fuera de Cuba y ha quedado registrado en publicaciones especializadas.

Pertenezco a las siguientes instituciones:
-UNEAC (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba)
-Asociación de Comunicadores Sociales de Cuba
-Comité Prográfica Cubana
-Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales del Consejo Nacional de Artes Plásticas
-IBBY cubano


Daniel Smith, United States

Daniel R. Smith is a Seattle-based artist and designer. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1994 with a BFA in Graphic Design and a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts with an emphasis on photography and drawing. He has worked as a graphic designer for several Seattle firms including NBBJ Architecture, Starbucks Coffee, Experience Music Project (EMP), as Design Manager, and GiftCertificates.com, as Creative Director. National design awards include selection for The American Center for Design's 19th Annual 100 Show, and first place in the American Association of Museum's Design Competition, poster category. His fine artwork has been shown locally at the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) and Bellevue Art Museum. His work has been purchased for inclusion in Seattle City Light's public art collection and Experience Music Project's permanent collection.

2005 Sharing Dreams Artists


Lisa Abendroth, Unites States
abendrot@mscd.edu

Lisa Abendroth is an Assistant Professor of Art and coordinator of the Communication Design program at The Metropolitan State College of Denver. She earned a BFA in Communication Design from Virginia Common Wealth University in 1991. Lisa accepted her current position in August 2000 and previously taught visual communication coursework at the Colorado Institute of Art, the University of New Mexico and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her pedagogy focuses on creating course content that exhibits a social and cultural awareness within the field of design at large. She specializes in design history and theory, recently rewriting MSCD's Communication Design BFA program to higher standards in these areas, gaining NASAD accreditation in 2004. Beyond academia Lisa has held senior level design positions over the past thirteen years working with such clients as Freightliner Corporation, Comcast, and the U.S. Postal Service among others. She currently directs Culture/Language/Dialogue, an enterprise devoted to promoting projects for culture and collaboration. The firm further specializes in related identity and brand management endeavors. Allowing client-based work to intersect with her research interest, Lisa explores the vast theoretical and social implication of identity and branding within culture. These areas of investigation provoke visual work for exhibition as well as written material for publication allowing Lisa to present her work nationally and internationally. Lisa is currently conducting research and authoring a book, that combines design and anthropological studies, on the subject of cultural identity as manifested in the vernacular of lawn presentation in America.



Stuart Alden, United States
stuart@idahostew.com

Stuart Alden has spent the last 15 years attempting to figure out this thing we call graphic design. Wandering his way through a few design agencies, he finally decided it was time to use his experience on work that he felt was important. 2 years ago he started IdahoSTEW a small creative agency that focuses on people passionate about what they do. Working with small companies and non-profits that have good things to share, he creates conceptual storytelling (photography/graphic design/writing) to help these clients effectively solve their marketing objectives. Stuart also creates personal work/exhibits that speaks to his beliefs. He attributes much of his success to working and listening to smart people ö and involvement in AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) and ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations). He is a past president of AIGA Colorado, currently the Vice-President for AIGA Center of Cross-Cultural Design, and continues to listen and share whenever he can.



Maggy Cuesta, United States
maggy@imagedesignersgroup.com

Maggy Cuesta was born in Cuba, and grew up in Texas. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Graphic Design. After graduation Maggy moved to Houston, Texas where she worked as a graphic designer. In 1985 she moved to California to pursue her Masters Degree in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts. After receiving her degree Maggy moved to Miami where she worked for local design firms before establishing a partnership in The Image Designers Group. She is currently working both professionally and as an Associate Professor at New World School of the Arts. Maggy has served on the board and as President of AIGA-Miami Chapter. She has been very involved with the AIGA both locally and nationally on collaborative exhibitions such as propaganda! Cuban Political and Film Posters, Power of Typography and World Day of Design. Her work has been published in Communication Arts, Print, Print Casebooks, AIGA, Graphis and Hot Graphics USA.



Mariana Dominquez, United States
mariana@marianad.com

Mariana was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After high school, instead of pursuing a degree in architecture in Venezuela, she decided to expand her horizons and enrolled in a one year Post Grad program at Lawrenceville Prep in New Jersey, USA. It was there, after much debate, that she decided her passion for graphic design was greater than her interests in architecture. A year later she moved to Providence, RI to attend the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Four years later, she obtained a BFA Graphic Design. Her travels to Europe and Latin America, as well as her design education have allowed her to gain great appreciation for the field. She is especially interested in the influences that different cultures have on art and graphic design, and how these influences vary throughout regions and time. Mariana is currently living in San Diego, CA freelancing for the Art Institute of California, San Diego and DZAP Design.



Lucie Eder, United States
lucie@myorangebox.com

Lucie Eder is a graphic designer working under the name MyORangeBox, or MyORB. Lucie was born in Prague, raised in Munich and educated in England. Currently based in New York, MyORB was established in 2003 after Lucie completed her MFA at London's Chelsea College of Art. MyORB originally began as an art installation and a series of short films that focused on cultural and social issues. Since then, MyORB has expanded to include other projects such as photography, websites, logos, magazines, and posters.



Jorge Ferret, Cuba
Ferret@citmatel.inf.cu

Jorge graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial en la especialidad de Diseño Informacional. He previously studied at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plástica in Holguín were he became Drawing and Painting Professor. In 1999 he began working as a graphic designer in Publicitaria Coral del Grupo Cubanacán developing works in editorial design, campaigns, visual identities, multimedias. Staring in 2002 he began working with Citmatel (Empresa de Servicios Informáticos) as a designer in the development of various interactive multimedia projects with both cultural and scientific themes. At the same time he has worked independently with Grupo Puntá G —created in 1997— where his works also approaches many areas of design: visual identities, editorial design, posters, advertising, stand and digital projects such as interactive television, multimedias and web pages for various companies and institutions including UNEAC, ICAIC, Agencia Cubana de Rap, COSUDE (Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación)and other diverse sectors such as tourism, commerse, sports, contruction, environment, festivals and events, theater groups and artists.
Jorge has obtained various awards such as: the Premio ESPACIO 2003 in the category of Logos and brands which is given out yearly by the Asociación Cubana de Comunicadores Sociales; that same year he was given a nomination in the Cultural category for a multimedia piece about the writer Pablo Armando Fernández and the Premio ESPACIO in Web for a website about the writer Luis Amado Blanco, which was also given an award at the 2004 II Festival Internacional de Comunicación de Bien Público. In 2004 he was also nominated for the Premio ONDI ( Oficina Nacional de Diseño Industrial ) and a Mención Especial del Jurado at the Premio Espacio 2004 for his interactive multimedia work for Cirugía Oncológica Pediátrica. Jorge is a member of the Cuban Writers and Artists' Union, of the Asociación Cubana de Comunicadores Sociales and of the Comité Prográfica Cubana.



Julieta Mariño, Cuba
joy@infomed.sld.cu

Julieta graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial (ISDI) with a specialty in Information Design. Since then she is a Professor at the Comunications department in the Universidad de La Habana where she obtained a Masters in Comunication Sciences. She has taught numerous undergrad and postgrad courses in Cuba and abroad as well as advising Degree Projects both at the Department and ISDI. She also works as a designer. Some of her projects include: Sistema Señalético del Hotel Meliá Cohiba (Premio Anual de Diseño 1995), Visual Identities for various institutions such as Correos de Cuba and its subsidiaries (1996), Empresa de Telefonía Celular C-Com (2000), Centro Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(2003); and the Centro de Intercambio y Referencia – Iniciativas Comunitarias (CIERIC) (2005) among others. In 2003 she designed the book Mariano, tema, discurso y humanidad, and in 2004 an exhibit display for the company Erka, which was awarded first prize. Julieta has developed promotional campaigns both for products and services such as: the design for the advertising campaign for consumer services for Brascuba Cigarrillos, SA in 2002, a promotional campaign for the Centro Internacional de La Habana S.A. in 2002, an advertising campaign for the Empresa de Telefonía Celular C_COM in 2003, an advertising campaign for Pizza Nova restaurants in cuba in 2002. She has also participated as a juror in the Design and Advertising division of various events such as the Convención de Turismo 2002, Feria Internacional de La Habana (FIHAH) 2003, and the Festival del Habano 2003.



Olivio Martinez, Cuba
olivio@cubarte.cult.cu

Born in 1941 in Santa Clara, Cuba, Olivio studied Painting, Sculpture and Etching at the Escuela Prov. de Artes Plásticas Leopoldo Romañach in Sta. Clara and Wood Carving at the Escuela Provincial de Artes y Oficios. He obtained his masters degree from the Universidad de La Habana in 1975. From 1963 to 1995 he worked in various projects including magazines, books and the newspaper Granma Internacional. Olivio has taught courses in graphic design, plastic arts and cinema, and given conferences on design and visual communications to directors of the Propaganda Division of the Cuban Communist Party. Olivio's work has been shown at collective design exhibits and personal drawing exhibits in Cuba, Europe, Africa, Latin America and North America. He has received awards for his poster and book designs in Cuba and Europe. He also creates illustrations for various publications. He has also participated in multidisciplinary groups for architectural projects of parks, schools, exhibit halls and urban treatments. In addition he has worked on type design, identity designs, corporate identities and product design.



José Menéndez, Cuba
diseno1@casa.cult.cu

University studies of Graphic Design at the Institute for Higher Studies of Industrial Design (ISDI), Havana, Cuba, 1984-1989. Postgradual studies: International Course of Graphic Design at the Graphic Media Development Centre (GMDC), The Netherlands, 1995.
Has been Design Director at Casa de las Américas (cultural institution) since 1999.
Other works for:
Salsa Cubana (music magazine), Dédalo (art and literature magazine), Ministery of Culture, Alliance Française in Havana and National Museum of Arts, among others
Works recently exposed at:
Mexican and Cuban Posters, Wifredo Lam Center, Havana 2000
Diseño de Fin de Siglo (Design at the End of the Century). Gráfica Cubana 1990-2000. Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, 2001
Cuban Posters, New York, 2002
Dos aceras. Gráfica contemporánea cubana. Centro Cultural Cinematográfico ICAIC, Havana, 2002
Instantes del cartel cubano del siglo XX. Galería de Arte 23 y 12, Havana, 2002
Carteles Cubanos. Galería de la SENAC, Sao Paolo, 2003
New routs in Cuban Art, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malyasia, 2004
Cuban Posters: A Retrospective. Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, 2004
2nd Korean International Poster Biennnale, Jury members exhibition, Seoul, 2004
Works published in:
D Magazine (London), El Caimán Barbudo Magazine (Havana), TM Magazine (Bern), Artecubano Magazine (Havana), Applied Arts Magazine (Toronto), Visual Magazine (Madrid), Druck Magazine (Amsterdam), Icograda Message Board (Brussels), Gallery on Icograda’s website (www.icograda.org), Book and multimedia La imagen constante. El cartel cubano del siglo XX (Havana, 2001), Book World Graphic Design (London, 2003)



Faustino Pérez, Cuba
fausto421@hotmail.com

Born in 1942, in Banes in the oriental area of Cuba. Self-taught, he is a Professor at the Journalism Department in the Universidad de la Habana.
Graphic designer dedicated to social and political propaganda:
1965 in Intercomunicaiones, Interrelaciones de medios de Comunicacion s.a.
1967 At the political editorial for the CC of the PCC, he headed the design department for many years.
1995 At the Publicitaria Imagenes de la Corporacion CIMEX, creating designs for comercial advertising.

Faustino has obtained award in the National Poster Exhibitions in 1968-69 /1969-70/ 1970-71, and multiple awards in various competitions for posters, logos and exhibit displays for various events in the past. He has participated in collective poster exhibits in Cuba, Europe and America. He's has participated as a juror in diverse poster competitions as well as in propaganda exhibits in the last couple of years.
In 1976 he was an international worker in Angola where he created liberation propaganda and taught design to a group of young workers from the Department of Information of Angola.
In 1981 he represented the UNEAC in a graphic design event organized by the Artist Union of the URSS in Tzintari, Riga.
He's traveled for graphic design projects to Nicaragua (in 1980) and Panama (1997-98)
Faustino received the Medalla Raul Gomez Garcia from the National Cultural Syndicate for his 25 years of work in this sector. And in 1983 he was awarded the Distincion por la Cultura Nacional.
Since 2003 Faustino works as a freelance artist.



Jesse Rankin, United States
jesse@jcell.com

Jesse was born in New York City in 1969, was promptly moved to Weehawken, New Jersey and has continued to move around mentally and physically ever since. He earned a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and has been playing with computers on and off since 1980. His move into the field of Design started in earnest in 2003 upon returning from a 2 year stint in Amsterdam. He earned a certificate in Graphic Design from New York University and has been doing freelance work under the company name of JCELL when not traveling. He prefers designing posters over all else and one of his posters will be published in Graphis Poster 2005 later this year. He has worked on a variety of different projects from designing a sign for an orphanage in Jinja, Uganda to a logo and website for a Gypsy Jazz collective in Amsterdam. From now until the foreseeable future he plans to combine his experience in Information Technology and Design to work on larger web projects (hopefully in far away places) while simultaneously searching out great creative projects like Dreams of Peace. In November he will move to Malawi in East Africa to be closer to his soon to be wife Jennifer.



Yoana Yelin, Cuba
yoana@inder.co.cu

Since young I've felt great attraction to the Arts. I did basic studies in painting, photography, sculpture and etching. In 1999 I graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial in specializing in Graphic Design.
I don't like defining myself under one profession though, I constantly alternate among graphic disciplines. Laterally I obtained a teaching degree and having taught at the International School of Havana has been an intense and highly enriching experience.
I've participated in painting and photography exhibits in Cuba, Spain and the United States. My work as a designer has been focused mainly in the area of editorials: magazines, catalogs, advertising, exhibit programs, and applications of visual identities. four the past four years I've designed the catalog for the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, for which I received the Premio Salón Nacional de Gráfica 26 de Julio in 2002 under the category of Book Covers. I've also done some work in interior design and I'm currently working on a photographic project for my second solo exhibit.


2004 Sharing Dreams Artists


Pedro Juan Abreu, Cuba
pedroabreu@wlam.cult.cu

He has worked as a Graphic Designer at the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center since 2000. He designed the graphic images for the 7th and 8th Havana Biennial Exhibitions, and the logo of the Center. From that year on, he has also been working at the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC) making posters for films and other events. He has made catalogues, posters and other designs for the Spanish Cultural Center in Havana.
He is a member of the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC) and of the Prographic Committee in Cuba. He graduated in Informational Design from the Higher Industrial Design Institute (ISDI) in 1996. He has received the following awards, among others: Logo of the 7th Biennial Exhibition in Havana 2000, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center; National Curatorship Award 2001: Turn of the Century Design: Cuban Graphic Art: 1990-2000, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, March 2004; First Prize on the 1st Photography Contest held by the Spanish Embassy in Cuba on Salvador Dali's Centenial, 2004. He has taken part in poster and photography exhibitions in Cuba and abroad.



Audrey Bennett, United States
bennet@rpi.edu
www.rpi.edu/~bennett

Audrey Bennett is College Art Association Professional Development Fellow and Associate Professor of Graphics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her current research on Interactive Aesthetics (IA) explores the invention or appropriation of interactive technologies that facilitate participation from remote participants at various stages of the design process. For instance, these interactive technologies may facilitate the audience giving input on which ideas are worth pursuing. They may function like usability tests and focus groups by facilitating audience input on the effectiveness of an existing prototype. Or, they may require participation from the audience in order for interpretation to occur. Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions and published in refereed journals, conference proceedings, nationally and internationally. She is currently Principal Investigator for one of RPI's $50,000 seed grant projects titled: "A Virtual Design Studio Pilot Project: Facilitating the Participatory Design of an AIDS/HIV awareness campaign with a remote audience in Kenya." She received her M.F.A in graphic design from Yale University's School of Art and a B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth College.



Andrea Dezso, United States
Babatoll@aol.com
http://a.parsons.edu/~andi/

Andrea Dezso was born in Transylvania, Romania, and is ethnic Hungarian. She is an artist, designer, writer and educator. She has extensive experience designing for non-profit organizations, cultural institutions and businesses. She is Full Time Faculty at Parsons School of Design in the Design & Technology MFA program, and an artist represented by the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City. Andrea's illustrations have appeared in the New York Times Book Review. She is a contributor to Print Magazine. Her fiction was published in McSweeney's. Andrea holds an MFA in Visual Communication and a BFA in Graphic Design & Typography from the Hungarian University of Design. She lives in New York City.



Oscar Fernández, United States
ofernandez@eyethink.com
http://www.eyethink.com/flash.html
http://www.cscarts.org

As a design educator, Oscar has held adjunct and associate professorships of design at Carnegie Mellon University, the Maine College of Art, the University of Cincinnati, the Ohio State University, and Montana State University. Oscar's professional design career started with architecture firms and progressed through design directorships at international for-profit and non-profit institutions, including the Wexner Center for the Arts located in Columbus, Ohio.
Throughout his academic and professional career, he has been a producer and proponent of effective information designs, diagrammatic information displays, comprehensive identity programs, and clear communication systems that respect the wants and needs of multiple audience/users in many contexts. Among Oscar's many design awards are recent inclusions of work in GRAPHIS Posters 2002, Typography 20, GRAPHIS Design Annual 2000, and AIGA Graphic Design Annual 19. In 1997, a retrospective of Oscar's work was held at the Trissolini Gallery at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.



José Gómez Fresquet (Frémez), Cuba
fremez@cubarte.cult.cu

Fremez started in graphic design in 1957 in the Cuban branch of the American advertising agency Harry W. Graft. That same year he started to work in Bohemia magazine. After 1959 he worked as a designer and humorist in Revolución and La Calle newspapers. He collaborated in Lunes de Revolución and contributed to El Pitirre, the first humorous paper after the Revolution. He worked in the Propaganda Commission of the Associacion of Rebel Youths (AJR) and the Communist Youth League (UJC) in the 1960s. He participated in the design team of Mella magazine.
He was director of photography and design in Cuba magazine and headed the Propaganda and Visual Arts Departments in the National Council of Culture, where he was also the art director of Revolución y Cultura magazine. He has been art director of other Cuban periodicals like Unión and La Gaceta de Cuba from the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists.
He began to work in engraving in 1967. In 1969 he travelled in Europe and Africa and exhibited his work in Paris, Brussels, London,Geneva, Neuchatel, Zurich, Algiers and Stockholm. He has made individual exhibits of his work in Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Canada, United States, France, England, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, GDR, GFR, the Soviet Union and Japan.
From 1976 to 1980 he directed the Experimental Workshop on Graphic Art at the Cathedral Square. He acted as a consultant in Granma newspaper when digital means replaced traditional technologies. He is art director of the magazines Temas and Artecubano, both from the Ministry of Culture. His work has received various national awards, among them Por la Cultura Nacional Award.

Eduardo Moltó, Cuba
moltoeduardo@yahoo.com

Moltó is a graduate in Social Communication, specializing in Graphic Design and Advertising at the University of Havana. He also graduated in Illustration and Informational Design at the Polytechnic Industrial Design Institute.
He is a member of the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) and of the AIAP, UNESCO International Association of Art (Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Art) since 1993.
He has acted as a jury in design and visual art and offered lectures on digital art in Cuba and abroad. National and international press and Internet have published interviews, articles and critics on his works.
Molto has been repeatedly awarded: First Prize at th 2nd Digital Art Exhibit, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, 2000; award to comprehnsive design for Rafael Alberti’s El amor y los ángeles at the 11th International Book Fair in Havana, 2000: Coral Award to the best film poster for Suite Habana, at the 25th Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, Havana, 2004.
His individual exhibits, held since 1989, include: 10 láminas de Moltó,Toronto, Canada, 2003; Nobody is Perfect, ICAIC Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba, 2001; Eduardo Moltó, Arte Digital, Sony Center of Panama, Soliloquium, Centro Cultural 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba, 1995. He has taken part in many collective exhibitions in Cuba and abroad and shared projects and collective works with important Cuban and foreign visual artists. Some of his works are part of private collections in Chile, Spain, Holland, Argentina, France, Switzerland and Cuba.



Fabián Muñoz, Cuba
jmancebo@infomed.sld.cu

I feel myself a draftsman. During all these years I have manipulated photography, tridimensional objects and digital graphics, but I am originaly a draftsman and it is a discipline I impose on myself with determination.
When I was a teenager I published two or three vignettes in a newspaper every day. Then I studied Social Communication at the University of Havana. When I graduated, I began to work in advertising: editorial design, and logos then came to form part of my preferred art form: drawing, and that is why I paint and make illustration for children books.
In 2000 I won the Graphic Award from the Association of Advertisers in Cuba; that same year I obtained an honorable mention at the Digital Art Exhibit in the Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau. My illustrations for the book Cuentos Locos para Niños Cuerdos obtained in 2002 the awards "Arte del Libro Cubano Raœl Martinez" and "La Rosa Blanca" to the best comprehensive edition.
I also like to make posters: to find and refine a symbol and load it with humor and solemnity. I have made some posters for the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema (ICAIC), and for exhibits in Cuba. Last May I made the poster announcing May First in Zurich, Switzerland.
My works have been shown in Cuba, Brazil and England. Things I like: Van Gogh, colors, Picasso-Dufy's forms, Bach's synthesis and grace, my father.
I am a member of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists, of the Association of Advertisers in Cuba and of the Cuban Prographic Committee. Working is what I like the most.



María Rogal, United States
mrogal@ufl.edu
http://www.material-culture.org

Maria Rogal spent her formative years traveling internationally and has lived in Laos, Peru, and Liberia. Her background influences her work, which focuses on the visual culture, design, and identity. She is at work on several projects that investigate the impact and relevance of graphic design and visual culture in the Americas. In these projects she explores how new visual languages develop through cultural assimilation and hybridity.
Included among these is her most recent and ongoing research project entitled The MIRA Project (Multimedia Interdisciplinary Research in Anthropology) which explores interdisciplinary methodologies with an emphasis on ethnography (as a method and outcome) to investigate cultures of consumption and commodification of cultural belongings and identities. MIRA is specifically grounded in the tourism development project of Playa del Carmen, on the Mexican Maya Riviera, one of the fastest growing cities in the western hemisphere. Her articles, Radicals with a Voice/Radicales con Voz (Zed: A Journal of Design) and South of the Border...Down Mexico Way (Visible Language) explored the aforementioned themes. Her art and design work has appeared in several juried exhibitions, including Graphic Responses, a special section of the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition. In 2003 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Hays Fellowship to study indigenous culture and the environment in México and Costa Rica. Since 1997 she has been on the School of Art and Art History faculty at the University of Florida where she teaches courses in graphic design.



Kristin Rogers, United States
kristin.rogers@comcast.net

Kristin Rogers is an experienced art director, designer, illustrator, and publishing specialist living in Portland, Oregon. She currently sets art direction for CDR International Mercer Delta. In addition to taking the lead in creative visual design, she sources and develops design staff.
Kristin continues to be involved in community design projects locally and nationally. She is senior designer for ORLO'S Bear Deluxe Magazine, a non-profit focusing on art and the environment. She also helps recruit and coordinate the work of contributors. The magazine has won design awards from PRINT's Regional Design Annual and Seattle's Bumbershoot arts festival. Her design team was selected to represent AIGA Portland with a poster for the national "Get Out the Vote" campaign in 2004. She managed production for DaCapo Press and Perseus Publishing, with titles she produced gathering acclaim from the New York Times and PRINT magazine. Other clients include Avon, Coca-Cola, Nike, and Willamette Week.
In 1997, she co-founded a comprehensive consumer delivery service in Denver, CO, where served as Creative Director and General Manager. The company continued to prosper after her active involvement.
Kristin graduated from Kenyon College in 1994, majoring in Studio Art and English. Her studies included drawing, intaglio and relief printing, photography, and history of books and printing. In 1997, she completed a graduate-level certification course in book publishing at the Denver Publishing Institute. She is a published poet and essayist, and has taught and lectured on art, writing, and print production at primary, graduate, andprofessional levels.



Hector Villaverde, Cuba
villaver@cubarte.cult.cu

In the 1960s Villaverde designed many posters for the National Council of Culture and studied Graphic Design in Warsaw, Poland. He was artistic director of Cuba Internacional magazine for ten years and has designed more than 300 books for the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
From 1987 to 1997 he was professor of the Higher Industrial Design Institute. He has offered lectures in Mexico, Chile, Switzerland, Italy, Puerto Rico and Bolivia. He was a jury in the First Latin American Biennial Poster Exhibition in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2003. That same year he received a tribute in Mexico, together with the Cuban designers René Azcuy, Eduardo Muñoz Bachs and Antonio Pérez.
He has worked in Graphic Design in Cuba for more than 20 years, organizing exhibits, workshops, lectures and various gatherings, among them the First ICOGRADA Meeting for Latin America in June 2001.
He has received more than 25 awards during his career and three years ago he received the Raœl Martinez National Graphic Design Award for his life work. He also received the Por la Cultura Nacional award. He is head of design at the Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center and a free lance designer.