Marco Hernandez

Infographic Designer

Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
Marco 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

Work Experience

South China Morning Post

Director of Digital Design

March 2016 - Present Hong Kong

La Nacion

Senior infographic designer

April 2008 - February 2016 Costa Rica

Universidad De Las Ciencias Y El Arte De Costa Rica

Information design lecturer

January 2013 - January 2016 San José, Costa Rica

Editorial Legado

Graphic designer

February 2006 - March 2007 San Jose, Costa Rica

Comunicación Total Internacional

Graphic designer

May 2004 - January 2006 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

UNED

Investigative methodology

January 2001 - September 2002 Costa Rica

Universidad Complutense De Madrid

Ruta Quetzal program

July 2000 - September 2000 Madrid, Spain

Languages

Spanish (Native),
English (Fluent),

Awards

Malofiej

Bronze Medal, print edition 26. For "portfolio"

2018

WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards

Gold Medal, infographics category. For "On the road (Belt and Road initiative)"

2018

SND Print

2 Awards of excellence, edition 39th. For "What’s in a Face"

2018

WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards

Silver Medal, Infographics category. For "What’s in a Face"

2018

Malofiej

Bronze Medal, print edition 26. For "Divine creations"

2018

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "How they score"

2018

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Divine Creations"

2018

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Away from work"

2018

SND Print

2 Awards of excellence, edition 39th. For "On the road"

2018

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "portfolio"

2018

SND Print

2 Awards of excellence, edition 39th. For "The power of your passport"

2018

Malofiej

Bronze Medal, print edition 26. For "What’s in a Face"

2018

Malofiej

Bronze Medal, online edition 26. For "The tallest statues in the world"

2018

Malofiej

Bronze Medal, print edition 26. For "How they score"

2018

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "The Power of your Passport"

2017

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Getting away from work in 2018"

2017

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Valentine's Day"

2017

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Individual Portfolio, Marco Hernandez"

2017

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Land of the giants"

2017

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 39th. For "Who’s favourite to survive round one of the World Cup?"

2017

SND Digital

Award of excellence, Edition 38th. For "USAsian Vote"

2016

SND Digital

Award of excellence, Edition 38th. For "The Global Rule of Law"

2016

Malofiej, Print

Bronze medal, Edition 25. For "Bolts from he Blue"

2016

SND Digital

Award of excellence, Edition 38th. For "Bolts from the Blue"

2016

WANIFRA ASIAN AWARDS

Bronze Medal, Data visualisation. For "Bolts from The Blue"

2016

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 38th. For "China City Tiers"

2016

SND Digital

Silver Medal, Edition 38th. For "Memoria Robada"

2016

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 38th. For "Moving Out"

2016

WANIFRA (online)

Gold medal, World Best data visualisation for "Belt and Road Initiative"

2016

SND Digital

Award of excellence, Edition 38th. For "The Hong Kong Aging Population"

2016

Malofiej, Print

Bronze medal, Edition 25. For "Moving out"

2016

WANIFRA ASIA (print)

Gold Medal, Best Infographic of Newspaper. For "Bolts from the blue"

2016

WANIFRA ASIAN AWARDS

Gold Medal, Data visualisation. For "Belt and Road Initiative"

2016

SND Print

Award of excellence, edition 38th. For "Bolts from he Blue"

2016

WANIFRA ASIAN AWARDS

Silver Medal, Data visualisation. For "Your Passport Power"

2016

Society Of Publishers In Asia

Award for excellence in information graphics. For "Bolts from the blue"

2016

SND Digital

Award of excellence, Edition 37th. For "Cumpleaños de un siglo"

2015

Data Journalism Awards (GEN)

Best News Data App of the Year (Small Newsroom). El Financiero for “Does School Pay Off? How Much?”

2015

Malofiej

Digital Malofiej 23, Silver Medal. For "Fichajes del Torneo de Invierno 2014"

2014

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 36th. For "Fichajes del Torneo de Invierno 2014"

2014

SND Digital

Award of excellence, Edition 36th. For "Print coverage of FIFA World Cup, Brazil 2014"

2014

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 35th. For "X-Air Racers"

2013

SND Digital

Award of excellence, edition 35th. For "The Patriotic Band"

2013

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,