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Carla Santana Posada Beyond La Catrina A century since his death, José Guadalupe Posada left a wide heritage, not only engravings and skull, but he was a pioneer of editorial and graphic design in México.

Martha Gutiérrez Miranda Design and intelligence development Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.

José Antonio Giménez Industrial Design Shortens the Crisis Industrial design, or to put it better, the application of design to industry have had a stimulating effect in the past.

Camilo A. Angulo The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia Looking back from two theories about its origin.

Victor Garcia Zootype: Is It a Case of Typographic Latin American Amnesia? Zootype is, perhaps, the first Latin American font awarded at an international contest, a fact that is often forgotten in regional historic reports.

Mario Balcázar The Vignelli Canon, a Tribute Though we can learn from many designers, few have left us a legacy more clear and visible.

Samuel López-Lago Mildred Constantine, pioneer in graphic design musealization Mildred Constantine did a great job, achieving the penetration of design objects in the field of museology.

Manuel Guerrero Brief introduction to typography study in the antique book A review about Marina Garone's book, that allows to understand a great part of the vocabulary currently used in editorial and typographic design.