Check out the latest Vignelli Center for Design Studies lecture with Faride Mereb, a Venezuelan book designer, researcher, and educator based in NYC.

Design Milk is excited to share the most recent lecture of the 2023/2024 academic year of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies Design Conversation Lecture Series at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This session features Faride Mereb, an award-winning Venezuelan book designer, researcher, and educator who is based in New York City.
In the lecture, Mereb highlights various case studies she has developed over the years in both Venezuela and now in the U.S. through her design studio, Letra Muerta Inc., spanning book design, workshops, and time as a Latin American Collections curator for institutions. She dives into her archival research linked to design, including the work of Karmele Leizaola, the first female graphic designer in Venezuela, who Mereb studied in 2021 under the 10×10 Photobooks’ Research Grants on Photobook History. Another designer Mereb studied and shared about is the work of Victor Viano, as part of her “Design and Migration” series, which is heavily connected with the oil boom and state financed publishing initiatives in Venezuela during the 1960s and 1970s. To learn more about Faride Mereb, watch the entire lecture below:

Work Faride Mereb is doing on the archives of Victor Viano:

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