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Macizo.com (or: Macizotype) [Leonardo Vázquez Conde]

Leonardo Vázquez (Macizotype, Mexico City) is the Mexican designer of Bunker (2005, a monolithic display face, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. It uses the rounded stone features found in Aztec sculptures and designs. Designer of Señal Mexico (2000, a Mexican highway sign face, with four styles called Rural, Nacional, Mediana and Asfalto), mentioned here. He also made Proteo (2005, sans), Lectura (2007, a text family in Regular, Negro and Versalitas styles), and Libre.

Leonardo is a graphic and type designer. After finishing his studies in Mexico City, Leonardo worked in several design studios and advertising agencies. In 1998 he settled in France where he studied in the Atelier National en Recherche Tipographique in Nancy. Leonardo returned to Mexico in 2001, where he works in his own studio macizo.com.

Speaker at TypeCon 2007 and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City and at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, where he introduces his Mayan transcription font Mayathan, and talks about the importance of designing typefaces for oral languages as a way of spreading their culture.

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