Faride Mereb

Faride Mereb
Born 1989
Valencia, Venezuela
Occupation Editor and graphic designer
Website http://faridemereb.com/

Faride Mereb (1989) is a Venezuelan editor and graphic designer. She is the founder and director of the publishing house Ediciones Letra Muerta, based in Caracas Venezuela.[1] In 2016 she was awarded gold in the editorial category in the Latin American Design Awards for Al Filo ~ Miyó Vestrini.[2][3]

Professional career

Born in Valencia, she attended Instituto de Diseño de Caracas.[1] Later, she received a full scholarship in Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Arturo Michelena in Valencia. In 2015 Mereb started working in the publishing house Ex Libris with Javier Aizpurua.[3] Ex Libris has won the contest of 'Best Book design From all over the World' (Leipzig, Germany) on three occasions.

In base of a comprehensive research focusing in the poetic work of the Venezuelan writer Miyó Vestrini, Mereb assembled and designed two books, Es una buena máquina ~ Miyó Vestrini and Al Filo ~ Miyó Vestrini in which she explored literary interviews and unpublished poems of Vestrini.[1][3][4] Es una buena máquina was selected in the Ibero American Design Biennial of Madrid and in the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte (FIA) of 2015.

In 2014, she co-founded Ediciones Letra Muerta, a publishing house dedicated to cover relevant Venezuelan authors like Vestrini and Ida Gramcko, among others.[1][4]

With Letra Muerta, Mereb published Poemas ~ Ida Gramcko in 2016.[5] This work was pre-selected in contest 'Best Book design From all over the World' (Leipzig, Germany).[6]

Mereb has lectured on her research on Venezuelan design, at Columbia University (United States) in 2016 at the University of Palermo (Argentina).[7] She is also member of AIGA.

Selected works

  • Spaces to say the same thing ~ Hanni Ossott (2018).[8]
  • Otoño (sic) ~ Luis Moreno Villamediana (2017).[9]
  • Poemas ~ Ida Gramcko (2016).[10]
  • Al Filo ~ Miyó Vestrini (2015).[11]
  • Es una buena máquina ~ Miyó Vestrini (2014).[12]

Individual expositions

  • Poemas: Ida Gramcko. Abra Caracas, Los Galpones . Caracas, 2016.
  • Segunda ruptura: en la memoria. Organización Nelson Garrido. Caracas, 2013.
  • El espacio de la palabra, Estespacionoesmio. Valencia, 2012.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 D’Angelo, Oriette. "Faride Mereb de Ediciones «Letra Muerta»: «El libro vive más allá de las páginas»". Digo.palabra.txt (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "AL FILO". LadAwards (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  3. 1 2 3 Parra, José Antonio. "La Paciencia: Esa exquisita labor de Faride Mereb en Ediciones Letra Muerta" (in Spanish). El Nacional. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Faride Mereb: "Mi trabajo está más asociado a la sensibilidad que al conocimiento"". LUSTER Magazine (in Spanish). 2016-09-30. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  5. ↑ ROJAS, INDIRA (2016-08-11). "Letra Muerta revive a Ida Gramcko con el libro "Poemas"". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  6. ↑ "Stiftung Buchkunst". www.stiftung-buchkunst.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  7. ↑ "A través de las páginas: una aproximación al diseño editorial venezolano". ILAS | Institute of Latin American Studies. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  8. ↑ "Espacios para decir lo mismo de Hanni Ossott - The Wynwood Times". The Wynwood Times (in Spanish). 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  9. ↑ "Otono (sic) ~ Luis Moreno Villamediana – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  10. ↑ "Poemas ~ Ida Gramcko – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  11. ↑ "Al Filo ~ Miyó Vestrini – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  12. ↑ "Es una buena máquina ~ Miyó Vestrini – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-11.
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