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Jon Ashmann, USA Michalis Arfaras, GREECE Dimitris Arvanitis, GREECE Thanos Arvanitis, GREECE Neville Brody, UK Petr van Blokland, HOLLAND Aggelos Bakas, GREECE Maria Canellopoulou Bottis, GREECE Andreu Balius, SPAIN Jo De Baerdemaeker, UK Christina Banou, GREECE Joseph Coates, USA Anthony Cahalan, CANADA Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari, USA Dimitris Charitos, GREECE Vassilis Charissis, UK Mary Dyson, UK Simon Daniels, USA Dhian Damajani, INDONESIA Costis Dallas, GREECE Stergios Delialis, GREECE Artur Frankowski, POLAND Victor Gaultney, UK Iva Georgieva, BULGARIA Lars Harmsen, GERMANY Vangelis Hatzitheodorou, GREECE Haralambos Haitas, GREECE Akiem Helmling, HOLLAND Guy Hutsebaut, BELGIUM Naomi Haswanto, INDONESIA Peter Karow, GERMANY Nikos Koutsmanis, GREECE Alexandros Kouris, GREECE Pat Kahn, UK Richard Kegler, USA Marianna Kafaridou, CYPRUS Natassa Kalou, GREECE Petros Kostagiolas, GREECE Veroniki Korakidou, GREECE Eric Kindel, UK Giannis Karlopoulos, GREECE Christiana Lafazani, USA John Langdon, USA David Lemon, USA Gerry Leonidas, UK Louise McWhinnie, AUSTRALIA Eva Massoura, GREECE George Matthiopoulos, GREECE Klimis Mastoridis, GREECE Dimitris Mitsiopoulos, GREECE Arafat Al-Naim, JORDAN Maria Nicholas, USA Annette O'Sullivan, NEW ZEALAND Sarah Owens, UK Raquel Pelta, SPAIN Mervi Pakaste, USA Aspasia Papadema, CYPRUS Anastasios Politis, GREECE Irini Pitsaki, GREECE Klaudio Pap, CROATIA Efrossini Roupa, GREECE Dan Reynolds, GERMANY Natasha Raissaki, GREECE Manolis Savidis, GREECE Paul Stiff, UK José Scaglione, ARGENTINA Michael Semoglou, GREECE David Shields, USA Fred Smeijers, HOLLAND Iordanis Stylidis, GREECE Riama Sihombing, INDONESIA Andreas Sophocleous, CYPRUS Alessandro Segalini, TURKEY Andreas Stötzner, GERMANY Vangelio Tzanetatou, GREECE Adam Twardoch, GERMANY Charis Tsevis, GREECE Keith Chi-Hang Tam, Hong Kong Panos Vassiliou GREECE Eirini Vlachou, GREECE Jana Vujic, CROATIA Leoni Vidali, GREECE Karel van der Waarde, BELGIUM Ruth Westervelt, USA Daniel Warner, USA Artemis Yagou, GREECE Alexios Zavras, GREECE Ivana Ziljak, CROATIA Spyros Zevelakis, UK Evripides Zantides, CYPRUS

Raquel Pelta, SPAIN

Raquel Pelta is a Historian of Design holding degrees in History and Geography and Audiovisual Communication, and a PhD from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Her doctoral thesis was entitled, "Design and Graphic Design. Fifteen Years of Ideological Debate. The Anglo-Saxon Sphere."
In July 2006 Ms Pelta became the Director of Studies at the Istituto Europeo di Design Graduate School, where she also teaches History of Design. She is likewise an associate professor at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona.
She has previously taught at the Elisava Graduate Design School in Barcelona, where she was also Head of the Humanities Department, The College of Advertising at the University of Vic, the College of Legal Sciences and Communication at the University of Valladolid and the College of Advertising and Public Relations at the University College of Segovia.
From June 2001 until June 2004 she was the editor of Visual, a magazine devoted to design and communication.
She led the I and II Typography Conferences (Valencia, 2004 and 2006), has organized courses on design at Universities and other institutions and has given lectures at multiple venues, among which we can mention the University of Mayab (Merida, Mexico), the Casa de España (Buenos Aires), the University of Salamanca, the Museum of the Enlightenment and Modernity in Valencia, the Espai d'Art de Castelló, the University of Malaga, Jaume I University in Castellón, the Fundación la Caixa and Ramon Llull University in Barcelona.
She takes part on a regular basis in various publications, such as Tipográfica (Argentina), Lars, Experimenta, Artlab (Italy), Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Diseño Interior, Artegráfica, Box (Argentina) and Punto Doc (Bolivia). She has also published texts in design anthologies, exhibition catalogues and the book entitled Diseñar hoy.
She has collaborated as a researcher and consultant for exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and has commissioned many other shows, among them: García Fonts & Co. Ten Years of Independent Typography in Spain; No Limits. Visions of Modern Design; Legendary Designers: A Tribute to Toulouse Lautrec; Posters Against War; and 100% Catalan Design.
She is a member of the ADGFAD Board of Directors (Association of Graphic Designers for the Promotion of Design and the Arts) in Barcelona, board member at the Fundación Comunicación, board member of the recently founded in Barcelona History of Design Foundation and a member of the Scientific Committee at the Design Hall at the European University, Madrid. She is likewise an associate of the Network of the History of Design in Latin America (NODAL) and of the Design History Society in London.


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