Rubén Fontana

For 40 years, has directed the Fontanadiseño studio, developing activities in Argentina and Latin America. In recent years, the team led by Rubén Fontana has specialized in the design and implementation of comprehensive institutional and corporate identity programs.

Introduced typography education to the Graphic Design program at the University of Buenos Aires and, until 1997, was a full professor of the Typography I, II, and III courses. At the same university, taught postgraduate courses in Typography and was a full professor of the Editorial Design course.

Has delivered lectures, postgraduate courses, and master’s programs at various schools and universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and the Netherlands.

Served as a juror for the Type Directors Club and Punto Sur in New York. His graphic work is featured, among others, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Is the editor of the magazine tipoGráfica, a specialized publication edited in Argentina since 1987.

Is Argentina’s representative for the ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale). His professional work has received over 40 awards, including the Konex Platinum Award for his career in Visual Arts.

Designed, among other type families, the Fontana ND system, which received the Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design awarded by the Association of Typeface Designers in Moscow and the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), having been selected among the winners of the bukva:raz! competition, and the same distinction from the Type Directors Club of New York (TDC).