Mario Fuentes

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Designer and Poster Artist. Studied Graphic Design and Visual Communication. – ROLE OF JURY – 2022 • Intercontinental Jury of the Poster Stellars 2022 competition. New Jersey, USA • What... Unites Us 3. Giresun University Görele Faculty of Fine Arts. Turkey 2021 • COW 2021 DESIGN BIENNALE. Ukraine 2020 • The "Golden Turtle" International Wildlife Festival. • Pre-selection Jury in The 7th International Reggae Poster Contest. • Ecuador Poster Bienal - International Jury and in the Category E with the theme: Visit Ecuador. 2018 • Poster for ________ . International Poster Competition. • Escucha Mi Voz . Theme: "TURN A LIGHT ON." 2016 • Poster for Tomorrow - Online Jury. Theme: Make Extremism History. • Ecuador Poster Bienal - International Jury and in the Category “Ser Ecuatoriano.” • International SAMSUN Poster Competition. 2014 • Poster for Tomorrow - Online Jury. Theme: Work Right! • Selection jury in the Project Gráfica por la Infancia/UNICEF - Finland / ITAE / La Factoría – Ecuador. Organized by Aalto University. Finland. – PUBLICATIONS – 2020 • Making Posters. Author: Scott Laserow & Natalia Delgado, Ph.D. by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2018 • Typography4 - Typeface Design 2018. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. • Art Book – International Poster Contest Escucha Mi Voz Editions 2017-2018. Mexico. • El Quiteño. Illustrations about Quito on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its declaration as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Editorial Paradocs. Secretariat of Culture of Quito. • Kermanshah Earthquake art works. Iran. • Ficciones Typografika book. Formist Editions. Australia. 2017 • "15 Days" - Illustrated Magazine for Art and Culture. Zagreb, Croatia. • The Design of Dissent - Expanded Edition by Milton Glaser & Mirko Ilić. • Poster Annual 2018. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. • Typography Day 2017 Theme 'Typography and Diversity'. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2016 • Poster Annual 2017. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. 2015 • 1000 Crayons for the Freedom of Expression. Tribute to Charlie Hebdo. Paris, France. • Graphis Social & Political Protest Posters Winners. New York, USA. 2014 • Winning Works of the QuadAward - International Design Award. Kassel, Germany. 2012 • Memories of the “Feriado Bancario en Cuento y Caricatura”. Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Ecuador. 2008 • “A Tribute to Celebrities” (Logos of Celebrities) Author: Pedro Guitton. Editorial: Index Book. Spain. 2007 • The best Posters of the Contest “La Mirada de Nosotros – Latinoamérica Hoy” 2nd Latin American Meeting of Design UP (University of Palermo) Buenos Aires, Argentina. • 3rd Edition Noveno Arte Magazine. Winning Works of the "Tercer Concurso Nacional y Colegial de Comic y Manga" organized by Club Ichiban. Quito, Ecuador.Read More

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2022 • JURY’S DIPLOMA in the fifth All-Russian poster contest “STRENGTH IN UNITY!” of the project “Russia. The Third Path” 2021 • “Coup de Coeur du public” 14e Triennale Internationale... de l’affiche politique. Mons, Belgium • Gold Award. Competition Social&Political Protest Posters 2. Graphis Inc. New York, USA 2020 • Golden Bee Award in the Golden Bee 14 Global Biennale of Graphic Design Category Supershort Video. Moscow, Russia. • Excellence Award in the 2020 KICD International Invitational Exhibition with the theme New Normal Era Design, organized by the Korea Institute of Cultural Product & Design in South Korea. • Top 10 in the Calanca Switzerland Biennale 2021. • Laureate in UNOVIS XXI Century International Poster Contest. Professional category of the Exhibition Shortlist. Russia. 2019 • Excellent Award in the International Poster Biennale for Peace Nanjing, China. • 2nd Prize “Leonardo da Vinci” in the XII Florence Biennale of Art & Design. Communication and Graphic Design Category. Italy. • Jury Diploma in The Fourth Open All-Russia Poster Competition "Russia. The Third Path." • One of the Winners of the STA 100 (Society of Typographic Arts) Chicago, USA. • One of the Winners of the Creative Quarterly The Journal of Art & Design edition 57 (CQ57) in the Professional Illustration Category. Brooklyn, New York, USA. • Distinction for the animated poster “LET THE GAME BEGIN” in the LAG Poster Contest. Poland. 2018 • First Place on International Competition for poster designers "Smile Everywhere 4 everyone" organized by Red Cross of City Skopje, supported by the association of graphic designers. "Plakart" and City of Skopje in Macedonia. • Honorary distinction in the 4th International Poster Contest about Typography and Printing. Crete, Greece. • Third Place of International poster contest dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx. Russia. • Gold Award. Typography4 - Typeface Design 2018. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. 2017 • Third Prize in The Third Open All-Russian Posters Competition “Russia. The Third Path.” • Certificate of Merit of the General Director of the State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak republic in the Poster Triennial EKOPLAGAT 2017. Žilina, Slovakia. • Gold Award. Poster Annual 2018. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. • One of the Winners in the International Poster Competition of the event Typography Day 2017 with the theme 'Typography and Diversity'. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2016 • Gold Award. Poster Annual 2017. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. • First Prize in the FINI 2016 (International Image Contest) Category Professional Poster. Pachuca, Mexico. • Honorable Mention in The 6th International Biennial of Socio-Political Poster in Oświęcim, Poland. • Honorable Mention in The 8th Eco Poster Exhibition Stress and Depression. Poland. 2015 • Gold Award in the TIGDA (Taiwan International Graphic Design Award) Category Poster Type A. Taipei, China. • Silver Prize. Competition Social&Political Posters. Graphis Inc. New York, USA. • Honorable Mention in the International Poster Competition "World without Violence" in Tehran, Iran. • Honorable Mention. China - Italy International Design Week “THE EVOLVING SILK ROAD”. Firenze, Italy. 2014 • 1st Prize in the Occupational Safety Poster Competition, 23rd Edition “Computer World”. CIOP-PIB in Warsaw, Poland. • Bronze Award in the AGDIE (Asian Graphic Design Invitation Exhibition) South Korea. • Special Mention in the GRAPHISME DANS LA RUE / CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL D'AFFICHES. France. • One of the Winners in the QuadAward. Category Typography. Kassel, Germany. 2013 • Second Place in the COW International Design Festival. Category COWposter in Ukraine. • Second Place in the International Competition "Shouts to View" for Animal Dignity. Bogotá, Colombia. 2012 • Bronze Prize in the 10th International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan. • Honorable Mention in the 12th International Poster Biennial in Mexico (IPBM). 2011 • Selected among the best 10 posters of Poster for Tomorrow project. Paris, France forming part of the permanent collections of prestigious museums of design: The Lahti Poster Museum - Lahti, Finland. Les Arts Decoratifs - Paris, France. Wilanów Poster Museum - Warsaw, Poland. Graphic Design Museum - Breda, The Netherlands. Victoria and Albert Museum - London, United Kingdom. To date, it has received 35 international awards, has participated in more than 300 collective poster exhibitions around the world, has a traveling solo exhibition as part of the Ecuador Poster Bienal First Edition; also has been selected in Biennials and Triennials of Design and Poster in different countries such as: Poland, Belgium, Japan, China, Finland, Mexico, United States, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Peru, Bolivia, Cuba and Ecuador.Read More