Yonel H.

$20/hr

Venezuela

I´m a Graphic designer with more than 14 years of experience and a strong interest for illustration and visual identity projects, developing editorial illustration for magazines, children’s books, posters, murals or digital media and everything in between. Since 2013 I work alongside my wife and partner Eddymir Briceño in our graphic design and illustration studio, Inés & Bernardo, where we design visual identities for big and small businesses, design books, make a huge amount of illustration work and develop our personal projects. Building visual narratives is my expertise, I had the privilege to illustrate three children’s books and have two more on the go, in between 2010 and 2012, I was selected as part of a Venezuelan team of illustrators, designers and writers to work with the Netherland based ONG Butterfly works, to develop the first edition of the project «Play and learn with Miffy» celebrating the 50th birthday of the famous character designed by the illustrator Dick Bruna. Here a few of some international recognitions my work has received: Finalist in the Iberoamerican Biennial of Design BID (Madrid, 2016), with the «Numbered Collection» Barco de piedra; honorable mention in the II Latin American Prize for Editorial Design in the category of reference work (Buenos Aires, 2016), for the book «Myths and Legends of the Portuguese State», edited by Fundación Empresas Polar; as a designer and illustrator of the book «El Espanto», Utopia Portátil, (Buenos Aires, 2017), winner as the best in the children's/youth category of children's book of the III Latin American Award for Editorial Design, (Buenos Aires, 2018) and winner with Eddymir Briceño of the Latin American Design Awards, silver, in the Branding category, for the project «Plan B: Caracas city of departure» (Lima, 2019), among others. Part of my personal work as an illustrator was shown in a solo exhibition named «Gestos mínimos. Yonel Hernández», Fundación Sala Mendoza (Caracas — Venezuela, 2018).