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Gabriel Meave is a graphic and typographic designer, illustrator, and calligrapher, born and based in Mexico City. His work spans editorial and book design, corporate identity, logos, graphic work, calligraphy, and font design and typeface families.
He has illustrated narrative, fantasy and fiction books for authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Villoro, and Cornelia Funke, and designed special typefaces for companies such as Telcel, the financial newspaper El Economista, Jumex, and El Palacio de Hierro stores, as well as the institutional font of the federal government of Mexico.
His original Arcana and Organic typefaces are distributed internationally by Adobe Systems, and he has carried out design and branding projects for Mexicana de Aviación, Corona, P&G, McMillan, Pearson Education, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Ogilvy & Mather, and various agencies, publishers, and design firms.
Throughout his career, he's received five awards from the Type Directors Club of New York and three from the Association Typographique Internationale and several of his photographs have been selected for the Tipos Latinos biennials in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012.
His calligraphic and illustrative work has been exhibited in various forums and spaces, including the solo show "La mano que mece la pluma" at the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in the historic center of Mexico City. In addition, his work has been published in the main international design magazines, such as Communication Arts, Novum, Ètapes, Typo, and How. Phaidon Books, in their book Area_2, published in 2009, listed Meave as one of the hundred most important emerging designers in the world today.