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Angélica Barco is a brand designer and creative director with 25 years of experience in branding, leadership and design consultancy, design strategy and visual communications. She currently runs her own company Angelica Barco Studio, a consultancy specialising in design, conceptualisation, development and implementation of brand strategies, corporate identity, digital identity and identity applications. Understanding branding from four key perspectives: strategy, aesthetics, commitment and innovation..

Throughout her career she has received numerous national and international awards including: 4 Laus awards, 6 Anuaria awards, 6 Selected from Europe, 3 selections in the Iberoamerican Design Biennial, 2 Best Brand Award from Europe... and published in national and international magazines and blogs such as Select Index Book, Novum, Graffica, Experimenta, Design Boom, Pencilcase, etc..

She studied Fine Arts, specialising in Graphic Design (Barcelona University), Masters in Creative Management (ESADE Barcelona), Masters in Art Management (Red&Yellow School Cape Town) and is currently studying for a PhD in Design (University of Deusto)..

In 2020 she joined the University of Deusto as an Associate Professor, where she previously taught on the Master's Degree in Strategic Design, thus combining teaching with her professional career in the field of brand design..

Marcelo Leslabay holds a PhD in Design and Communication from the Valencia Polytechnic University and a degree in Industrial Design from the National University of La Plata (Buenos Aires).

Since 2012 he has been a lecturer and researcher at the University of Deusto, where he has been the driving force for the current Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and he is a member of the Deusto Design Research Group.

For more than twenty-five years he has run his studio, Leslabay Diseño, specialising in curating, designing and organising exhibitions. He has organised more than fifty exhibitions and events that have represented Spanish Design in Europe, America and Asia.

He is a founding member of the DiMad Madrid Designers Association and has been the creator of the Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID). He is an active member of Transferencias Design. In 2015 he was one of the Judges for the National Design Awards.

From 2015 to 2020 he was Editorial Director of Experimenta, a publishing house specialising in Project Culture, Design and Communication, which publishes the magazine of the same name and of which he was Deputy Director between 1992 and 2004.

Since 2020 he has been the Editorial Director of the journals i+Diseño and Umática, both academic and scientific publications published by Malaga University.

Product Design Manager at the Vidrala Group.

He is an Industrial Technical Engineer, having studied at the EUITI in Bilbao.

He has pursued his professional career in the Vidrala Group.

He started in production as Shift Manager, and went on to manage manufacturing processes for the entire Group. Since 2008, he has been part of the Design Department. Initially responsible for the design of moulds for the Group, in 2011 he assumed his current position, in charge of the Design department, where all the Vidrala Group's model projects are developed, as well as the design of the moulds for their manufacture.

Josyane Franc cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en el campo de las relaciones culturales internacionales, en la concepción, gestión y coordinación de proyectos.

Fue Directora de Asuntos Internacionales en la Cité du Design and Saint-Etienne School of Art and Design (ESADSE), Francia.

En 2022 fue nombrada Chevalier de l`Ordre National du Mérite, uno de los más altos reconocimientos nacionales franceses por sus destacadas contribuciones, premiando su carrera y su compromiso con la cultura.

Hoy en día es asesora de redes internacionales de diseño y embajadora de la Cité du Design en la concepción, gestión y coordinación de proyectos de redes internacionales de diseño.

Presidenta de la Confederación de Escuelas de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de España.

Doctora en Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad con la tesis “El diseño gráfico en la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla de 1929, universidades de Sevilla y Málaga, calificada con sobresaliente “cum laude” por unanimidad del tribunal. Licenciada en Bellas Artes en la especialidad de Diseño Gráfico por la Universidad de Granada. Docente de la Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Sevilla, ha sido directora de la Escuela de Arte de Sevilla (Junta de Andalucía) entre los años 2015 y 2023.

Es miembro del grupo de investigación HUM 576 sobre Lenguaje Visual y Diseño Aplicado (Dirección General de Universidades e Investigación. Junta de Andalucía).

Por designación de la Junta de Andalucía ha sido Coordinadora de los currículos de los ciclos formativos de la familia de comunicación gráfica y audiovisual y del plan de estudios del grado en Enseñanzas Artísticas Superiores de Diseño Gráfico en esta autonomía.

Junto con Escuelas y Universidades de Finlandia, Suecia y Holanda ha desarrollado una guía de emprendimiento en el ámbito artístico destinada al alumnado (financiada por la Unión Europea). Miembro del comité ejecutivo de la Asociación de Directores y Directoras de Escuelas de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Andalucía (2015/2023).

Ha ejercido la docencia en Diseño Gráfico en la Universidad de Sevilla, en la Escuela de Arte de Jerez, en la Universidad de Málaga y en la Escuela de Arte de Sevilla donde ingresó por oposición en el año 2006.

En el ámbito privado, entre otros muchos proyectos, durante su labor en la empresa “Martín Moreno & Pizarro” creó la icónica imagen de la compañía Supercable, un camaleón de colores que continúa presente en elementos urbanos de numerosas ciudades españolas.

Beth Holmes is a graphic designer and brand executive at Encirc.

She joined Encirc, a Vidrala Group company, in 2020 after graduating in Product Design Engineering from Liverpool John Moores University.

Beth's first position was as a product designer, where she specialised in the design of manufacturing packaging.

In February 2024, Beth moved to her current role managing and executing the design of branded materials across multiple platforms for Encirc in the UK.

Her background in product design has provided her with a solid technical foundation which, combined with her current role in brand management and graphic design, ensures a consistent and impressive representation for the Encirc brand.

Industrial Designer. Co-founder of the Design School at the CEU-Cardenal Herrera University in Valencia and Professor of Projects for the Degree in Design Engineering and Product Development at the same University. A member of BEDA (Buerau of European Design Associations) and co-founder of the Valencia Community Designers' Association (ADCV), he has also been a member of the Board of Directors at ADI-FAD (1993-95) and chairman of the panel of judges for the 1995 DELTA Awards.

Since the beginning of his career in 1986, Manuel Bañó has combined teaching design with his professional activity as a product designer, working for companies such as Muñecas Famosa, Juguetes Chicos, Punt Mobles, Calzados Snipe, S&P etc.. He works with the Oxfam-Intermón NGO in the development of Fair Trade products for groups of artisans without resources, which entails working and travelling to different countries and poor areas around the world. In the year 2000, with the experience acquired and the support of the CEU-UCH University of Valencia, he created the FREE DESIGN BANK design cooperation project, a community design and co-development project in which design professionals and students also participate, collaborating altruistically with impoverished craftswomen from various underprivileged areas around the world in order to improve their living conditions through design support.

His toy, footwear, furniture and lighting designs have been selected for various group exhibitions at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, the Bancaja Foundation, the Museum of Ethnology and the Museum of Illustration in Valencia. The Barcelona Design Museum is currently exhibiting his Sister Moon chair (Punt Mobles) in its permanent collection.