Jose Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl

Art Director, Designer, Type Designer, Title designer, Illustrator

Puebla, Mexico
The world is my brand. My roots are my soul.

Work Experience

Jose Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl

Art Director and Designer

Freelance Art Director and Designer for different projects.
February 2014 - Present Puebla, Mexico

Prologue Films

Designer

July 2012 - California, United States

Jose Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl

Freelance Art Director & Designer

Freelance Art Director and Designer for different projects.
April 2011 - June 2012 Mexico Distrito Federal, Mexico

Prologue Films

Designer

July 2008 - March 2011 Venice, California, United States

Jose Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl

Freelance Art Director and Designer

Freelance Art Director and Designer for different projects.
January 2006 - June 2008 Puebla, Mexico

Benemerita Universidad Autónoma De Puebla

Professor

Professor of Typography, Editorial design, Poster and Illustration
January 2004 - May 2008 Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico

La Fe Ciega Estudio

Junior designer

September 2002 - May 2004 Mexico Distrito Federal, Mexico

Hula+Hula

Junior designer

January 2001 - August 2002 Mexico

Benemerita Universidad Autónoma De Puebla

Freelance Designer

Freelance Designer for Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
January 1999 - January 2001 Puebla, Mexico

Education

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma De Puebla

Bachelor of Graphic Design

August 1995 - January 2000 Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico

Languages

Spanish (Native),
English (Advanced),

Awards

Type Directors Club

Honorific Mention. With Prologue Films for motion design.

2010

A! Diseño

Finalist. Art Catalogue design

2008

A! Diseño

Finalist. Poster design

2008

A! Diseño

Type Design

2006

Castilla-La Mancha Center Of Design

International Finalist. Type design

2005

A! Diseño

Type Design

2005

Salomon Snowboards

International Finalist. Snowboard design

2005

Skills

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Fontlab,

Collaborations

Collaboration for the humanitarian project Font Aid III (called by the SOTA —Society of Typografic Aficionados—, MyFonts.com,Building Letters magazine and UNICEF) for the people affected for the 2004 Tsunami in Asia.

Collaboration in Font Aid IV, in benefit to the people affected for the Haiti’s earthquake in 2010.

Special collaboration for Discovery Channel for the Skateboard Shark Week Auction in 2010.

Organizations Member

ATyPI
Sociedad Mexicana de Tipografía

Exhibitions

SOLOS
-Incendiario, San Pedro Art Museum, Puebla, Mexico, 2008.
-PostSer, Musa Gallery, Puebla, México, 2009.

COLLECTIVE
-I, III, IV and V “Tipos Latinos” Latinamerican Biennal of Typography.
-International Day of Design, Xalapa, Veracruz. 1998, 2000, 2003.
-Ah! que tipos. New Mexican Typography, Mexico, D.F. 2001.
-Gráfica Reactiva, 2003, Spain.
-Trienale de Milan, 2003. Italy
-Posters about Inmigration. Nervio Óptico 02, Mexico-Spain, 2004-2005.
-Tipos Citadinos, Mexico, DF-Zaragoza, Spain, 2006.
-Utopías y Falacias, Univerasidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, 2006.
-“Mueren los Hombres, Viven sus letras”, a Mario Benedetti homage, Universidad del Hábitat, San Luis Potosí, 2009.
-Azcuy 70, a Rene Azcuy homage, IES, Puebla, Mexico, 2009.
-Forging the Character, ATyPI Conference, Mexico, DF, 2010.
-Where is my vote?, School of Visual Arts, Nueva York, 2010.
-Musa, Musa Gallery, Puebla. México, 2011.

Publications

MAGAZINES
—Matiz, DX, Tiypo, ENE O, a! Diseño, Fakir, Complot, Picnic (Mexico).
—Step (USA).
—Neo2 (Spain).
—Etapes (Spain/France).
—Building Letters (International).

BOOKS
—Sensacional de Diseño Mexicano (Trilce Publishers, Mexico).
—Da Adversidade Vivemos with a special collaboration for the design studio Labomatic (France).
—New Typographics with Font Samples (PIE Books, Japan).
—Marcas Mex (Gustavo Gili, Spain/Mexico).
—Latin American Graphic Design (Taschen, Germany).
—Diseño Gráfico en México (CONACULTA / Artes de Mexico, Mexico).
—Typodarium 2013 (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Germany).
—Logo design 3 (Zeixs, Germany).
—Poster design 2 (Zeixs, Germany).