Faride Mereb is a Venezuelan award-winning art director, book designer, and researcher living and working in New York City, co-directing the design studio and archive center Letra Muerta Inc.
She has achieved numerous awards with the studio, including the 2024 Grand Prix for best book design in the Latin American Design Awards and Best Design Studio in Venezuela. In 2022 she won the 10X10 Research Grant on Photobooks by Women supporting her formative research on Venezuela’s first known female graphic designer, Karmele Leizaola. Mereb was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, (2021-2022), and a guest professor at Yale University, (Fall 2024), where she taught the module for Latin America and The Caribbean in Geoff Kaplan’s class for History of Graphic Design: A set of Alternatives.