Faride Mereb

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, by Venezuelan poet and journalist Miyó Vestrini.[2][3]

Faride Mereb
Born1989
Valencia, Venezuela
OccupationEditor and graphic designer
Websitehttp://faridemereb.com/

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.

Based on comprehensive research focused on the poetic work of the Venezuelan writer Miyó Vestrini, Mereb assembled and designed two books, Es una buena máquina and Al Filo, both by Vestrini, in which she collected her literary interviews and unpublished poems.[1][3][4] Es una buena máquina was selected in the Ibero American Design Biennial of Madrid and in the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte (FIA) of 2015.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, by 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

Individual exhibitions
  • 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.
gollark: Say most/many people like a thing, but the unfathomable mechanisms of culture™ have decided that it's bad/shameful/whatever. In our society, as long as it isn't something which a plurality of people *really* dislike, you can probably get it anyway since you don't need everyone's buy-in. And over time the thing might become more widely accepted by unfathomable mechanisms of culture™.
gollark: I also think that if you decide what to produce via social things instead of the current financial mechanisms, you would probably have less innovation (if you have a cool new thing™, you have to convince a lot of people it's a good idea, rather than just convincing a few specialized people that it's good enough to get some investment) and could get stuck in weird signalling loops.
gollark: So it's possible to be somewhat insulated from whatever bizarre trends are sweeping things.
gollark: In a capitalistic system, people don't have to like me as long as I can throw money at them, see.
gollark: ...

References
  1. 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). Archived from the original on 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  3. Parra, José Antonio. "La Paciencia: Esa exquisita labor de Faride Mereb en Ediciones Letra Muerta" (in Spanish). El Nacional. Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  4. "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). Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. 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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