Rebeca Méndez is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is professor at UCLA Design Media Arts Department in Los Angeles, California. She was born and raised in Mexico City and received her BFA (1984) in Communication Design and her MFA (1996) in media art and design from Art Center College of Design Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The College logo is an orange circle, also known as the Art Center "Dot", which has been a part of the College identity since its inception by Tink Adams. Art Center offers in Pasadena, California.
Her art and design work has been exhibited and collected by institutions such as the SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]), The Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for modern art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at Museum Square, close to the Rijksmuseum,the Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Museo Jose Luis Cuevas in Mexico City, and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution, is the United States' national museum of design history and contemporary design and the only museum in the U.S. whose collection is solely focused on contemporary and historic design. The museum is located in the former Andrew Carnegie Mansion at Fifth Avenue and in New York. She has her own studio RMCD: Rebeca Méndez Communication Design in partnership with writer and strategist Adam Eeuwens, who is also her husband. Through her studio, she has collaborated with video artist Bill Viola Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness, architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis, architect Greg Lynn, GLFORM, artist Ruben Ortiz Torres, and with film director Mike Figgis.
Rebeca Méndez Communication Design’s clients include, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Guggenheim Berlin, The Getty Museum and MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles. As creative director of Brand Integration Group, Ogilvy & Mather Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing, and public relations agency based in New York City and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries around the world and employs approximately 16,000 professionals, NY and Los Angeles (1999–2003), Rebeca lead global brand identity projects for clients such as IBM, Motorola, BP (British Petroleum), AT&T Wireless, and Mattel. In 2004, Méndez was invited to, and won, a competition to design the user interface to the Microsoft Home — the premier venue for communicating what Microsoft sees as possible for technology in the home of the future. In collaboration with architect and 2005 Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne of Morphosis, Méndez created two permanent installations for Mayne's new building: The Recreation Center at The University of Cincinnati. Her work was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou as part of Thom Mayne and Morphosis retrospective: Morphosis: Continuities of the Incomplete in 2006. In addition, Méndez recently designed a wayfinding masterplan for Caltech, with architect Richard Weinstein and Cooper-Robertson Architects.
Rebeca Méndez lectures nationally and internationally—from Tijuana to Taipei—and her work has been subject of numerous publications and exhibitions such as ‘Clean New World: Culture, Politics and Graphic Design], 2002’ curated by Maud Lavin, ‘Women Designers in The USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference, 2001’, ‘The National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now, 2000’, curated by Ellen Lupton, a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum in San Francisco, California established in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including The Flower Carrier, 1935, by Diego, curated by Aaron Betsky, 1998, and ‘Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture’, 1996.
Among numerous awards, she was nominated as a candidate for a Communications Design Award of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution, is the United States' national museum of design history and contemporary design and the only museum in the U.S. whose collection is solely focused on contemporary and historic design. The museum is located in the former Andrew Carnegie Mansion at Fifth Avenue and’s National Design Award program, 2005. Méndez has served as jury member in numerous graduate academic reviews, among them for architects Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid, CBE is an British Iraqi deconstructivist architect and Greg Lynn at Harvard University School of Design, and Hani Rashid at UCLA, Architecture Department. She also served as chair of the Design Jury for the Art Director Club of New York Annual Awards, 2007.
Rebeca Méndez is in the advisory board of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Los Angeles Chapter, Peace Over Violence, Los Angeles, and in the Institute for the Future of the Book.
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