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Edgar Olivas

Creator of a beautiful Day of the Dead postcard series in 2009. He says: The Tzompantli, or wall of skulls was another element taken from the Aztec culture. These racks were built to display the sacrificial victims or those deceased at wars. The grin. In all these characters the grin is related to Mictlantecuhtli’s mocking smile. Some anthropologist say that this enigmatic gesture, depicted in one sculpture, seems to smile or mock ironically of those who typeface or will typeface him one day. Three posters were created as well, for silkscreen painting. The skulls in the postcards were designed using an ornamental and illustration style called DIDOQUE, which emulates the baroque ornamentation and is constructed on whole letters and pieces, signs, glyphs of the DIDOT typography. Didoque, is a portmanteau word and concept result of the words Didot and Baroque. The Didoque illustrations he Published in 2014 were based on HTF Didot.

IN 2014, Olivaswas based in Milan.

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Font examples ⦿ Type design in Mexico ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Type design in Italy ⦿ Aztec typefaces ⦿