Resumé 2009

Luis Alberto Martín Mendo

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Born in Salamanca, Spain, the 24th of november 1969

 

1987 - 1990
Salamanca, Spain
Basic Art Education at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y oficios Artísticos (EAAOOAA) in Salamanca.

1990 - 1992
Moved to Madrid, Spain
Specialitation in graphic design & illustration at the Graphic Communication School (Escuela de Arte 10) in Madrid.

1992 - 1993
Moved to The Netherlands for a schoolyear
Third year Minerva Art School in Groningen.
Graduated with Cum Laude in Madrid, september 1993.

1993 - 1995
Moved to Barcelona
Color Digital pre-press studio: director Graphic Design Department.
Blu Print pre-press studio: director Graphic Design Department.
Cases i Associats S.A, editorial design studio: junior designer magazines and newspapers for Argentina, Uruguay and Greece.
Mezembrini newspaper sunday magazine (M2) in Athens, Greece: 
head design team.
Gándara y Asociados, graphic design studio: junior designer.

1995 - 1997
Back to the Netherlands, Groningen
digiTAAL ontwerpen Groningen: senior designer

1997 - 1998
Moved to Amsterdam
digiTAAL ontwerpen Amsterdam: senior designer & creative director.

1998 - june 2005
Lava Graphic Design :
senior designer and creative director.

June 2005 - Februari 2009
Founded and run his own design company: Good Inc.®
In 2007 Founded and run Bladblog.nl, a weblog about editorial design in Dutch.
Teaching Editorial Design courses organised by GOOD Inc.®
Founded the Goodfellas Network, a group of creative individuals, together with Diseco.

March - May 2009
After 4 and a half years of successful business, Luis takes a sabbatical break in Tokyo, Japan.

June 2009
Moved to new office and started sharing the space with several members of the Goodfellas Network.

April 2010  - present
Jean Snow and Hiyoko Imai become fellow collaborators and so the team expands, reaching Tokyo, Japan.

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Teaching & Lectures

Guest lecturer at “Junior”, Art Direction School (Amsterdam)
and Kuwasawa Design School (Tokyo, Japan).

Teaching for master of Typography at Eina, Barcelona: 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Teaching his own Editorial Design course in Amsterdam to designers and editors.

Lectures and workshops on inspiration, creativity and design for among others: M-real Papers in Helsinki, Mike Koedinger publishing media group in Luxembourg, KPN, UWV, TNT and Rabobank directives, Groninger Museum, Weekbladpers, Markee/Het Salon (Belgium) and School voor Journalistiek in Utrecht.

Exhibitions

Luis Mendo's work – design and art – has been exhibited of Salamanca, Madrid, Amsterdam, New York and Shanghai.