Marco Hernandez
Infographic Designer
Discovery Bay, Hong KongMarco is a Designer born in Costa Rica. Former Senior Infographic Designer at La Nación and Lecturer of Information Design at the Science and Arts University of Costa Rica. Based in Hong Kong, currently is the Director of Digital Design of the South China Morning Post
Marco have a degree graphics design, some non related studies and self-formed in interactive development for storytelling in news, specially focused on infographics and data visualisation. His work has been honoured with dozens of awards and medals by the Society for News Design in USA; Malofiej in Spain; Wan-Ifra Asian Awards, Wan-Ifra World Awards in Germany; The Iberoamerican Design Biennal, in Spain, The Global Editor Network Awards in London among other international organisations
Marco have a degree graphics design, some non related studies and self-formed in interactive development for storytelling in news, specially focused on infographics and data visualisation. His work has been honoured with dozens of awards and medals by the Society for News Design in USA; Malofiej in Spain; Wan-Ifra Asian Awards, Wan-Ifra World Awards in Germany; The Iberoamerican Design Biennal, in Spain, The Global Editor Network Awards in London among other international organisations
Work Experience
Universidad De Las Ciencias Y El Arte De Costa Rica
Information design lecturer
January 2013
- January 2016
San José, Costa Rica
Education
Universidad De Las Ciencias Y El Arte De Costa Rica
Degree in graphics design
January 2005
- December 2006
Costa Rica
Universidad De La Ciencias Y El Arte De Costa Rica
Bachelor grade in graphic design
January 2002
- December 2005
Costa Rica
Languages
Spanish (Native),
English (Fluent),
Awards
WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards
Gold Medal, infographics category. For "On the road (Belt and Road initiative)"
2018
SND Digital
Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Who’s favourite to survive round one of the World Cup?"
2017
Society Of Publishers In Asia
Award for excellence in information graphics. For "Bolts from the blue"
2016
Data Journalism Awards (GEN)
Best News Data App of the Year (Small Newsroom). El Financiero for “Does School Pay Off? How Much?”
2015
SND Digital
Award of excellence, Edition 36th. For "Print coverage of FIFA World Cup, Brazil 2014"
2014
Ibero-American Design Biennial
Digital Design Finalist, BID-2014. For "X-Air Racers"
2013
Skills
Adobe CC,
Cinema 4D,
CSS,
HTML,
JavaScript,
Jquery,
QGIS,
SVG,
Threejs,