Exhibition ‘They are design. 1965 – 2025 ‘ Open your doors this Thursday in Mexico City, a project that was born four years ago Revive and “Do the work of women -designers in Mexico”, said one of those who are responsible for the concept and coordination of this initiative, Teresa Peyret.
Although the history of the Mexicans in the publishing world dates back to 1540, Pevite emphasized, as part of the week of the week Book dayThat this work is still invisible since this branch began to study in 1970.
“Women as men were not visible in the same way, being a career of graphic design that women mainly studied,” he said about this sample, which seeks to become a contradiction of this trend, demonstrating creativity printed in 200 books out of 27 designers.
Among the exhibitors, numbers from different generations, such as Rocío Mireles, Maricris Herrera, Blue Morris, Selva Hernández or Beatrice Trueblood, The editor of Lettic Origin, based in Mexico and is responsible for the design of the Olympic Games, developed in the country in 1968.
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About the fabric of this collection, Rotio MIRERESAnother owners ‘They are designHe explained that with the help of this project they contacted the creators to interview them and distribute their works on social networks, which later became a book that bears the same name of the sample.
“The Mexican editorial design is created by many women, but we saw that men were given better fame, there were lists:“ The most important designers of Mexico, ”and not a single woman came out, then we consider it necessary to talk about this bias,” said Payret in the museum Franz Mayer, a space where this compilation will be displayed until June 25.
Invisibility of editorial work
Inauguration was also present at the director of this museum, Jaspersen Who shared this prospect to mention that this is a “historiographical study of design” also explores all people behind books and as before, for example,“Printing seminars were extremely male spaces.”
“We must make transactions and people standing behind the objects (…), we are in uniform in the European autocorra -system, in which we think that the author of the work is the one who does all this, but in the case of books it is terrible, because we think that the text is a book, and not for this, we also need designers,” said Yaspersen.
In addition to gender bias, there are other difficulties facing the editorial sector, commented on the curators “their design”, Paola EgiluzMentioning advance Artificial intelligence and possible “death of the book” As a physical object to which economic factors are added, such as an increase in the price of paper or a crisis of 2021, where the cost of cost increased to 20%.
Despite the script, the participants defended the life of this object to which Selva ErnandesOne of the invited and open designers defines how: “The most important invention of mankind” When collecting cardboard in the block, paper and ink, a person’s knowledge.
With information EFE.
