John Vargas Beltrán
John Vargas Beltrán graduated as a graphic designer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1997 and has more than 10 years experience in calligraphy, typeface design, and lettering.
Since 1997 he has designed different fonts for display or specialised titles. In 1997 he designed Muisca Sans for his degree work, a typeface based on pre-Columbian elements. That same year he collaborated on the degree work project of his colleague Andrés Marquínez, designing Macondo, reissued in 2012 as Macondo Pro. In 2005 he participated at the Spanish contest Tipo-Q with Dulcinea Serif which became one of the 10 highlighted projects submitted. In 2009 he designed Convergence with his colleague, fellow student and Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Silva Schwarzenberg. That same year he prepared and developed the Salsa font family and obtained the title of Font Design Specialist (UBA). Currently he is designing new typefaces for publication by Google Fonts.
He is co-founder of the ADG Tipográfico.org Colombia (Graphic Designers Association of Colombia). He worked for over 8 years in the area of interactivity in advertising agencies like Euro RSCG and G2. He specialised in Management of Design UJTL (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano - 2003) and finalised the Typographic Design postgraduate course from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina - 2010). In March of 2012 his project Macondo was selected at the Tipos Latinos 2012 Biennal. Currently, he lives in Argentina.
[John Vargas Beltrán, November 2013]
Web: http://www.johnvargasbeltran.com/
