Rik.
Rik Bracho
Creative Director & CEO
Born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1980.
Studied Graphic Design at CEDIM from 1998 to 2002 (Mex) & Central Saint Martins in 2002 (UK).
Formerly Founder & Art Director of Amorfo Designlab and a member of many other design studios such as -1:0:1, Danilo Black and Zona Zero. Rik designed some of the best —and most influential— flyers and identities ever seen in the global electronic music scene created for Pastilla Digital & Hardpop.
He thaught typography and identity courses at CEDIM, for about 3 years, where he also contibuted as a consultant for the student program.
Rik is the founder of Face, Page. The Magazine & Artvvork. A modernist who has been working in the design field since 1999.
Loves black and white photography, swiss design, Air Jordans, the 1950s, printed magazines, his dogs and of course, his wife Mariana García.
rik@designbyface.com
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www.artvvork.com
@rikbracho
Ricardo.
Ricardo Tejada
Chief Administrative Officer
Born in Juarez, Mexico -considered by the international press as "one of the most dangerous cities in the world"-, Ricardo is working hard to counteract this negative image through the building of innovative brands and creative trademarks.
He is best known as the founder and leader of Pastilla Digital, a production company focused on music, that has been around since 2002. He left his home at the age of 16 to study at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), later on earning a degree as an Industrial Designer. Before graduating, he lived in London for one year, from 1999 to 2000.
It was from this city that he drew his inspiration from when it came to creating new and better ways of promoting, producing and executing concerts.In 2006 he founded & designed Hardpop, a club that has achieved international recognition only after two years of operation, and that is considered by DJ Mag as one of the 50 best clubs in the world.
ricardo@designbyface.com
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www.pastilladigital.com
www.thehardpop.com
Aarón.
Aarón R. Domínguez
Web & Art Director
Born in El Paso, US. Started working in the design field in 2005 and in 2006 studying Graphic Design at UTEP.
After working with some minor clients for a year, got his first job as a Designer in one of the most important News Broadcasting TV channel in Juárez, México and later becoming the Design Director (2006 - 2010). During this period of 4 years, in 2007, co-founded a Design & Music Collective called Kreativa a creative space where designers, graphic artists and musicians interact.
In 2008, Aarón was invited to collaborate with Hardpop, considered one of the 50 best electronic clubs in the world by DJ Mag, and Pastilla Digital in the Design Direction along with Face.
Unlimited lover of typography and geometry, forms and colors, computers and design, graffiti and paint, magazines and blogs, work and rest, music and silence, winters and summers… a Designer who does web development.
aaron@designbyface.com
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www.aar-n.com
@Aa_rn
Sandy.
Sandy Dávila Bracho
Director of Operations
Born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1976
Studied Communications/Advertising
Worked for 10 years at a telecommunication company, where she developed a career and gained experience such as sales, customer service, marketing and promotion manager and key account manager for the most important transnational accounts in the company which helped to understand the corporate world, its process and people.
Later with all of her experience joined Face to be the responsible of all the accounts, operations, customer service and project management.
Always looking forward to achieve new accounts, projects and clients around the world not only in Mexico.
Loves her family, fashion, black color, white tops, high heels, sports, health life and makeup as much as travel around the world and learning new languages and people... and soon to be canadian.
sandra@designbyface.com
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@sandybracho
Gabriela.
Gabriela Salinas
Senior Designer & Photography
Gabriela is a designer & photographer, born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1989. Graduated from Graphic Design and New Media at CEDIM on 2010 with honors.
With three school-mates she founded Mitosis010, a project focused on showing the socially-relevant side of design mixed with the importance of being a designer at Monterrey. Mitosis project won 1st place at Premio DIA in CEDIM.
Gabriela loves the smell of print, ampersands, turquoise color, capuccino paper, cactus and rabbits.
She is currently studying the MBI masters at CEDIM.
gabriela@designbyface.com
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gabrielasalinas.tumblr.com
www.gabrielasalinas.com
@gabrielasalinas
Aldo.
Aldo Arillo
Design & Strategy
At the age of 18 he moved to Monterrey to study Graphic Communication and Media Strategy at CEDIM, from the first semester his projects have been selected by international professors for competitions and exhibitions in and outside of school.
Joining the labor market in the third semester in a company of IT; developing projects for large companies. After having studied typography, his vision of design changed and began a personal quest that months later will guide him to Face.
In 2010 he co-founded Opera, an image consulting mainly focused in fashion brands where he works as a Creative Director, he is also Design Director of the fashion magazine Noir & Noir and currently collaborates with agencies in Dallas, Montreal and Cologne, where his work focuses not only in design but also in Communication, Strategy and Brand Management.
Addicted to typography, modernism believer, listener of Jazz & Hip-Hop, practitioner of gastronomy and passionate about his way of talking to the world, design.
aldo@designbyface.com
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@aldoporelestilo