Alejandro Lo Celso

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Alejandro Lo Celso Alejandro Lo Celso, a graphic and type designer born in 1970 in Córdoba, Argentina, was art director at several publishing media in Buenos Aires. He has written several articles for typo magazines, and taught typography at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2000 he completed his MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading (UK). In 2001, he obtained a post-diploma at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Nancy (France). He teaches typography at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, and at Centro Gestalt in Veracruz, and is Principal of Pampa Type in Mexico City. His Rayuela (Hopscotch) type family was a winner at the Bukva:raz type design competition held by the ATypI, Moscow 2001. Quimera (2002) is a display family that contains an admirable heavy condensed sans, Quimera Compacta. Lo Celso's face Borges won a Judge's award at the 2002 Morisawa Competition. Interview. Arlt (2005, +Arlt Blanca, 2008) won an award at the Creative Review Type Competition 2005. Rayuela Chocolate 2.0 (2005) won at TDC2 2006. In 2009, Lo Celso, François Chastanet, Géraud Souliol and Laure Afchain cooperated on the identity type for the city of Toulouse, called Garonne. At Tipos Latinos 2010, he won awards for Perec (+Perec Blanca, +Perec Negra) and Margarita. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Alejandro Lo Celso [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS