Otros Susurros Desde los Andes

A typographic-dingbat journey, titled Abya Yala: Visual Chronicles, through the little-known stories of the original cultures that inhabited the Andes. Vanessa Zúñiga develops her design from the semiotic and morphological analysis of the archaeological pieces’ visual signs. Then she translates...

On Typography and Language in Peru

This class will be an overview of the rich visual culture of Peru through the lens of typography and language. We’ll look at visual and written communication from pre-columbian times until the early 21st century, and explore the aesthetics of...

In/dependence: An Incomplete Survey of Cuban Design

Cuban graphic design is complex; its breadth and depth links to politics, geography, nationalism, inventiveness, economics, and much more. This complexity, in addition to 60+ years of a communist dictatorship that continues to trigger a Cuban diaspora expanding the globe,...

Latinx Identities and Self-Reflection in Traditional Design Learning Spaces

This lecture refers to otherness in traditional design and art canons and looks at the invisibility of Latin American/Latinx identities, cosmovisions, and voices in design education, with a focus on the female experience. Erasure of non-white, non-male, non-western identities and cultures in...

Caribbean Contrast: Puerto Rican and Cuban carteles and their representation of distinct political relationships with the United States

Cuba and Puerto Rico are the two wings of a bird, they receive flowers and bullets over the same heart. —Lola Rodriguez de Tió The poster—an important medium for social, political, cultural, and economic communication—was adopted in the twentieth century...

On Queerness & Race in Brazilian Art & Design

Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, is “full of potential and imagination.” It is a land brimming with regional customs and traditions and multiple histories and encounters both clash and coalesce. This pair of lectures dig through layers of...

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Diseñando Identidad: Community Education, Design, and Politics in Puerto Rico

In the mid-twentieth century, Puerto Rico’s first elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, developed a radical educational program that leveraged design, film, and art to provide basic education for predominantly rural Puerto Rican communities. DIVEDCO (the Division of Community Education), a...

Arte y Diseño Latinx: Comunicación Cotidiana

Comunicacion Cotidiana is a hybrid conversation that analyses the distinct ways in which people in Latin America use imagery, typography, and local materials to communicate with distinctive nuances that reflect keen awareness of audience, location, and language. In our Charla/Chat, we...

Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico Corporate License

Incomplete Latinx Stories Corporate License

Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico Education License

Incomplete Latinx Stories Educational License

Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico Borderlands/ La Frontera*

Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Grafico centers the work and histories of art and design in Latin America. From a Latinx diasporic perspective, we look at the pluralistic work that comes out of the diverse cosmologies, perspectives, and points of...

Pecha Kucha: Latinx Diaspora in America

In a Pecha Kucha format we examine four distinct perspectives on design by Latinx designers with roots in Latin America and Los Angeles. The talks include: Pilar Castillo — Plantation to Paradise, Designing the Caribbean: explores the role of design and advertising...

Some Theoretical Considerations in Reading Latin American Design History

A talk in two parts focusing on certain conceptual and theoretical considerations in response to reading design histories of Latin America. Through the lenses of Latin American philosophers, critical theorists, and writers, we will make observations on local art, design,...