Fer Cozzi

Fer Cozzi is an independent type designer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She earned her diploma from the University of Buenos Aires, where she was part of the teaching team in the Master's program in Typography. She currently serves as an instructor in the Type West program and conducts various typography workshops at the National University of the Arts. In her work, she seeks to explore rhythms, shapes, and strokes where chance and a not-so-obvious rationality intersect. A talkative enthusiast of letters, some of her works have been selected for type exhibitions, and she has participated in various typography conferences and events around the world. When she's not drawing letters, she is likely dancing to the beat of 90s pop.

Cristóbal Henestrosa

Cristóbal Henestrosa designs books and typefaces. He holds a degree in Graphic Communication from the National School of Plastic Arts of UNAM (now the Faculty of Arts and Design), a specialization in editorial design and production from the School of Design of INBA, a master's degree in type design from the Gestalt Studies Center, and a type design certification from The Cooper Union (New York). He has developed type families for clients such as Fondo de Cultura Económica, Librerías Gandhi, the Federal Government of Mexico, and El Colegio de México.

He is the author of Espinosa: Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (Mexico, Designio, 2005) and co-author of Cómo crear tipografías: Del boceto a la pantalla (Madrid, Tipo E, 2012), which has been translated into English, Polish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Since 2011, he has been a professor of typography at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. He also teaches related courses in various diploma programs, specialties, and master’s degrees at institutions such as the Master’s in Design and Editorial Production at the Autonomous Metropolitan University and the Master’s in Editorial Media Design at the National University of the Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina).

Francisco Gálvez

Graphic Designer from the IPEVE Institute at Diego Portales University. Self-taught typographer and type designer. Lecturer at the School of Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the Diploma in Typography at the same institution. Altazor Award in the category of Graphic Design and Illustration for the typeface Elemental (2002, Santiago, Chile). Gold Prize in the International Typeface Design Competition for the typeface Australis (Tokyo, 2002). Author of the books Educación Tipográfica (2004) and Hacer y Componer (2018), the latter translated into Polish as Stwórz i Złóż in 2019 by d2d.pl publishing house.

He has worked for Concha y Toro, Editorial Origo, Ediciones UC, the Government of Chile, the Municipal Theater of Santiago, La Tercera newspaper, La Cuarta newspaper, Sernatur, Sodimac, among others.

Mario Balcázar

He is a graphic designer with a master's degree in editorial design from Universidad Anáhuac Mexico, and additional studies in design, typography, and publishing at Stanford and Type Cooper. In 1999, he founded ilustresDiseño, a studio specializing in branding, editorial, and advertising design. Eight years later, the studio evolved into MBA Estudio de Diseño, where he has consolidated his work with clients such as Walmart, Petco, Infonavit, and Alsea, expanding his focus to include digital design and information architecture up to the present day.

Currently, he divides his time between MBA Estudio and teaching editorial design, typography, calligraphy, and identity at Universidad Anáhuac. He also specializes in executive management at IPADE and MIT. His passions include lettering, editorial design, branding, photography, and writing, particularly on design and management topics. He is the co-author of the book Gestión del Diseño, published by Universidad Anáhuac, and has contributed to websites such as Foroalfa and Paredro.

Other activities involving the participant:

The Rebellion of Sans Serifs: Does the World Need New Typefaces?