FELIPE TABORDA

Felipe Taborda is a graphic designer, author and curator from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A graduate of Rio’s Catholic University, he studied cinema and photography at the London International Film School (England), Communication Arts at the New York Institute of Technology and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts (USA). He has had his own office since 1990, working mainly in the cultural, publishing and recording areas. In 2008 he launched his book Latin American Graphic Design, published by Taschen (Germany). In 2014 the St John’s University (New York) has organized the exhibition Another Point of View, covering 30 years of his graphic works. He has curated the event Footb-All Mix / 32 Posters for a Passionate Game for the 2018 Russia World Cup. In October 2018 he had two simultaneous retrospective exhibitions: Todo al Revés / The Graphic Work of Felipe Taborda, during Madrid Gráfica 2018 (Spain); and Cara a Tapa / The Visual Music of Felipe Taborda, one of the official exhibitions of the International Poster Biennial (Mexico). During six months, between 2019 and 2020, he was in Europe at the invitation of universities and institutions, first in Barcelona (Spain) and later in London (England). For more than 40 years he was international correspondent of the late magazines Novum Gebrauchgraphik (Germany) and Print (USA). Now he is correspondent of Experimenta (Spain) and Grafikmagazin (Germany).