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+15 Mexican graphic designers to inspire you and create
+15 graphic designers …
To talk about Mexican graphic designers is to talk about the history of a country and how it has shaped what today is an industry with hundreds of exponents and references worldwide. To delve into graphic design in Mexico is to understand the visual culture of a territory and how its designers have managed to resignify all this cultural richness of colors and shapes in their own graphic designs.
We could extend a thousand lines talking about the interesting history of graphic design in Mexico, but in this post what we want is to tickle your imagination and help inspire you with the work of these 18 Mexican graphic designers.
So without further ado we will go straight to the list of these magnificent graphic designers 🇲🇽!
Index
- Indi maverick
- Alexander Magellan
- Violeta Hernandez
- Mr lemonade
- Mariana motoko
- Little captain
- Ixchel Estrada
- Pon Cervantes
- Javier RamÃrez The Chá!
- Carlos Lerma
- Letizilla
- Rafael Mayani
- Scarlet adrianne
- Yolanda garibay
- Carl Forssell
- Ismael Segura
- Lili lili
- Christian canibe
Indi Maverick is a Mexican illustrator and graphic designer who has worked with major brands such as Dr. Martens, Steve Madden, Glenmorangie, Morelia Film Fest, Mary Kay, among others, creating illustration pieces for magazines, books and advertising in general.
His work is marked by a tendency towards organic where animals, floral textures and botany stand out. 🌿. In his design and illustration style you can see a mixture of digital techniques that emulate the freehand line of the most traditional illustration and a mixture of impeccable colors that create a synergy between his unique style and the brands.
Alejandro Magallanes can be named as one of the cult Mexican graphic designers, as his long career has put the country on the map in terms of graphic arts, poster design and editorial design.
His rather peculiar style is characterized by not being defined by a particular technique. The exploration throughout his career has taken him along various visual paths but always keeping an interesting game between letters and images.
Alejandro has participated in multiple projects nationally and internationally, where his work with social institutions stands out, collaborating in the construction of corporate images and editorial design.
Violeta is a talented Mexican illustrator who delights us with subtle pieces that play with femininity and the transparency of colors. As she expresses it herself, its main strength lies in the freehand drawing where he manages to express his interest in organic figures and nature in a unique way.
His illustration work has been exhibited in different galleries around the world, including Monterrey, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Detroit, London, and Barcelona.
Mr. Lemonade is a Mexican digital illustrator and graphic designer based in the city of Leon. With his cartoonish and fun style he has managed to collaborate with major brands such as IBM, Televisa Networks, Tostitos, Line, Chilango Magazine and NFLPA, and recently with Adidas and Hype energy drink.
His irreverent style fills each character he creates with personality, and with a clean line and explosive color contrast, he gives a unique finish to his creations, managing to fill the viewer with energy.
Mariana is a Mexican graphic designer who has been seduced by illustration. Although he studied integral design, from a very early age he decided to follow the path of graphic design which has led, over the years, to his own minimalist illustration work.
His art is simple, with a sober and monochrome style. you don’t need more than a couple of lines to express it all. In his illustrations, the human and female figure frequently appear faced with everyday situations and some dreams.
Mariana has participated in multiple exhibitions throughout the Mexican Republic, and in 2012 her career took a turn when she was commissioned to create the image of the FICG, Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Little Captain is a Mexican graphic designer, illustrator and art director from Monterrey, his skill with digital illustration and clean lines has recently led him to work with Cartoon Network as a producer.
His work is simply mesmerizing, the use of color, textures and representations that he integrates into his designs make scrolling through his portfolio a special graphic pleasure. His hand is versatile and can create scenarios in a myriad of styles; However, we could dare to say that Mexican graphics, with its strong colors, slip through his fingers.
Ixchel Estrada is a jewel of Mexican graphic design, his work has focused on collage and with the skill of this technique he has managed to bring his illustrations and designs to multiple editorial publications where publishers such as Premiere, Santillana, UNEP, Mundo México, Richmond Publishing, Lectorum, among others, stand out.
His work is a mixture of analogous techniques, a constant experimentation with the possibilities of collage, illustration and photography.
Through digital illustration Pon Cervantes adopts children’s aesthetics and turns it into his language to convey ideas and emotions. His role is in the creation of characters and in the use of color to enhance their personalities, and it is through this that he has managed to build a name in the world of Mexican graphic design.
He is currently the art director of the Gallo Branding Studio team, where he has received several awards and recognition for his work in branding, illustration and packaging.
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Javier, in addition to being a great Mexican illustrator and graphic designer, is also a musician, broadcaster, bassist, founder of the Hula-Hula design firm and a member of great Mexican bands such as Fobia and Moderato.
Over the years and through design work he did with his band Fobia, He established himself as a designer of album covers and graphic materials for bands. His visual work with Hula-Hula has marked the young generations of Mexico as he has worked with groups such as Kinky, Gran Sur, Caifanes and many other musical instances in the country.
Lerms is a Mexican designer who has been on the creative radar for more than 10 years, his work focuses on the design of fantastic settings, characters, concept art and fan art.
His illustrations demonstrate an enviable versatility when designing, as his projects cover 2d and 3d with prodigious mastery.
Image: Lerms – Portrait of Catrina – 2016
Everywhere you look, Letizilla is an explosion of color. You will not find a piece by this Mexican graphic designer that does not give you joy or arouse a feeling of happiness.
Her powerful style that dazzles like the rainbow 🌈, has led her to work on multiple advertising campaigns with brands such as Netflix, Google, Apple, Casetify, Nike, Coach, Strash and many others.
Rafael Mayani began his career as an industrial designer, but quickly changed his path to the visual arts and graphic design. He currently lives in Canada where he is a creative director at Giant Ant studio by day and a freelance illustrator by night.
His work is mainly divided into editorial design, illustrations and murals. In these three facets his style is very marked and keeps a constant aesthetic line, which makes his work easily recognizable.
Mayani has worked with big brands like Google, creating the Doodle for Mexico independence day, Aribnb, multiple children’s books and directing the new intro to the animated series Pinky and the Brain, among many more editorial work and collaborations.
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Scarlet Adrianne is a Mexican graphic designer and illustrator who loves working his illustrations in watercolors and inks 🎨. In her works she mainly represents everyday scenes with a bit of personal humor, she laughs a little at herself and the situations in which she is involved.
One of his most representative series, and that he has been publishing for several years on his social networks, is that of yoga poses. Here he not only illustrates us about different asanas and their functionalities; but also with a bit of humor he shows us his inner self while practicing them.
Yolanda Garibay is a visual communication professional, who in 2001 with the help of Domingo Martinez created La fe ciega studio looking for transcending the utilitarian function of design.
The focus of these Mexican graphic designers is directed mainly to editorial design where they create beautiful pieces that could make us rethink the popular saying of not judging a book by its cover.
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Carl Forssell is a Swedish-Mexican graphic designer who has worked throughout his career with the most prestigious brands in Mexico, counting as part of his extensive portfolio with Volaris, Correos de México, Moshi-Moshi, Unilogic, Melusúu and a large list of brands in various industries in the country.
His passion for branding and brands is combined in a special way with his Swedish and Mexican heritage, which results in a minimalist style, but full of force that is expressed through shapes and color.
Ismael Segura is a Mexican visual communicator and graphic designer passionate about the development of graphic symbology, three-dimensional supports, and illustration. Its strong point is the development and creation of characters where he flows like a fish in water, and although this is his approach, his technique is versatile and his interest expands to all corners of graphic design.
Luis Lili is an Ace for typefaces and typographic techniques, he turns the craft of drawing letters into an art. Within its extensive portfolio, the Redesigning Brands project stands out, where it takes iconic brands and through changes in the fonts it manages to refresh them without losing their character.
His technique is supported mainly digitally, and although the entire process begins on paper, it is supports such as iPad pro and programs such as Procreate, Illustrator, Photoshop and cinema 4D, which have led him to be one of the most relevant lettering artists in Mexico 🇲🇽.
Christian Cañibe is a Mexican graphic designer who, along with his brother Manuel, is behind Éramos Tanto, a visual studio dedicated to editorial design, poster design, identity creation and illustration.
Its general style is heavily laden by an aesthetic of the past, using as graphic resources the textures, shapes and color combinations of old graphics. Thanks to the use of these resources, they manage to awaken a feeling of nostalgia that connects emotionally with the viewer and gives a unique touch to each of their works.
We know that Mexico’s talent is inexhaustible, every day a new prodigy is born and begins to build a precedent that will inspire thousands of people. This is the case of graphic design in Mexico and its representatives, and although we know that this list may not do justice to the sea of ​​Mexican talents we could be inspired by, Yes, it is a great reference in which various styles, techniques and visions of what graphic design is and could be mixed are seen.
We hope that one of the Mexican graphic designers on this list has managed to touch the fibers of your inspiration and put your head and your imagination to work 🤯.