Faride Mereb

Faride Mereb (born 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
Born	1989 Valencia, Venezuela
Occupation(s)	Editor and graphic designer
Website	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two books, Es una buena máquina and Al Filo, both by Vestrini, in which she collected her literary interviews and unpublished poems.^[1][3][4] Es una buena máquina was selected in the Ibero American Design Biennial of Madrid and in the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte (FIA) of 2015.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

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

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.

References

1. D’Angelo, Oriette (16 March 2015). "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 European Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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 European Spanish). 30 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
5. ROJAS, INDIRA (11 August 2016). "Letra Muerta revive a Ida Gramcko con el libro "Poemas"". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
6. "Stiftung Buchkunst". www.stiftung-buchkunst.de (in German). Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
7. "A través de las páginas: una aproximación al diseño editorial venezolano". ILAS | Institute of Latin American Studies. Archived from the original on 22 June 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
8. "Espacios para decir lo mismo de Hanni Ossott - The Wynwood Times". The Wynwood Times (in European Spanish). 13 March 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
9. "Otono (sic) ~ Luis Moreno Villamediana – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2017.
10. "Poemas ~ Ida Gramcko – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2017.
11. "Al Filo ~ Miyó Vestrini – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2017.
12. "Es una buena máquina ~ Miyó Vestrini – Letra Muerta". letramuertaed.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2017.

External links

• Official website