Curriculum vitae

Work experience

2004-2007 Procuraduría General de la Nación.
Design consultant Information architecture & graphic design of the corporate website. Book design. Corporate image and graphic identity manual.

2005-2007 Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Typography teacher Conception of a consistent syllabus after two years of trial and error.

2001-2004 Universidad de los Andes
Web designer Information architecture & graphic design of corporate websites. Graphic identity design program (unfinished)

Education

2004-2007 Self-taught typeface designer

1994-1999 Universidad Nacional de Colombia / BA in graphic design

Other

Conferences: October, 2006. Ojo al tipo / Cámara de Comercio de Pasto / Pasto (Colombia).

Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent, Melicet score: 9.1, Centro Colombo Americano).

Publishings “Latinamerican graphic design”: Colombian chapter. Ed. Trama (Ecuador), 2006. Curator / “Heraldry in contemporary visual identity: review of two case studies ”. Artefacto 10 (art & design magazine).

Technical skills

Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, PhotoShop, Acrobat, Type Manager
Macromedia Fireworks, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Contribute
Microsoft Windows xp, Word, Excel, Power Point

Curriculum vitae (.pdf: 257 Kb / 3 pg.)

Profile

César Puertas is a graphic designer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (1999); obtained meritorious degree with the graphic identity program for the same university. He has performed as book and web designer and more recently as typeface designer with his projects Obliqua, Urbana, Bolivar and Minuta. Typographic design teacher in Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2005-2007). ADG Colombia co-founder and active member. ATypI associate member. Letras Latinas 2006 and Tipos Latinos 2008 biennals organiser, juror and curator in Colombia. Speaker & lecturer on typography.