Next week, a new graduate program led by the School of Visual Design at Universidad de Caldas, Colombia will be launched. The PhD in Design and Creation is first of its kind in Colombia and is strengthening the leading and high-quality position of the School at National and Latin America level. The program offers unique [...]

Some time ago I watched a PBS Frontline documentary called the Card Game. It is an interesting program to see how creative bankers design complex credit card services that seem very attractive, but with hidden and expensive fees. I receive offers of these kind 2 or 3 times a week. The consequences of these now popular [...]

In this post I note how politics can teach designers about message content. This is elections year in my country, Colombia, which has suffered of corruption for long time. Traditional groups of politicians have controlled significant number of the votes that give them power to define the next president. 8 years ago, current president Alvaro Uribe [...]

I received this message some time ago from one of those anonymous email chains. Popular wisdom is nice and amusing. La tecnología . . . te vuelve menso ? Technology … makes you stupid? Estar en el 2009 implica que.. Being in 2009 implies that.. 1. Accidentalmente tecleas tu password en el microondas. You accidentaly type your password [...]

Visualization of statistical knowledge. The image has two information levels: one uses technical concepts and the other is for dummies because uses simple questions/answers.

Paper accepted at 1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia

Book chapter approved for Metalpasticity of Virtual Worlds