{"id":7,"date":"2008-04-19T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigital.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T11:19:13","slug":"tomas-garcia-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/tomas-garcia-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom\u00e1s Garc\u00eda Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a professional designer and teacher working in the digital realm.<\/p>\n<h2>As a professional<\/h2>\n<p>In August 1996 \u2013 together with <a title=\"Link to Carolina's profile\" href=\"\/english\/carolina-short\/\"><strong>Carolina Short<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 we founded <a href=\"..\/..\/\">(bi)gital\u00bb<\/a>, a small design consultancy focused on interaction and information design.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working as a consultant, designer, art director, developer, programmer and webmaster \u2013 wearing multiple hats \u2013 for institutions and enterprises like the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank (MIF IADB), the Buenos Aires Book Fair, the University of Otago (New Zealand), Fundaci\u00f3n Impulsar, SodaStereo, Apple Latinamerica\u2026 (see our <a title=\"Link to our list of clients\" href=\"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/clients\/\">list of clients<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Before that I worked in Multimedios Am\u00e9rica, a media company located in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.com.ar\/\">Clar\u00edn Group<\/a>, where I designed the first version of Clarin.com \u2013 the biggest newspaper in Argentina \u2013 for an incipient World Wide Web.<\/p>\n<h2>As a teacher<\/h2>\n<p>From November 2012 I have a <strong>Senior Lecturer<\/strong>\u00a0position in the <a title=\"Link to the Department of Computer Sciences\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.waikato.ac.nz\/\">Department of Computer Sciences<\/a> at the <a title=\"Link to the University of Waikato\" href=\"http:\/\/www.waikato.ac.nz\/\">University of Waikato<\/a>\u00a0(New Zealand), working in the <a title=\"Link to the Computer Graphic Design programme\" href=\"http:\/\/cgd.waikato.ac.nz\">Computer Graphic Design<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n<p>During the years 2006 and 2007 I was a <strong>Professional Practice Fellow<\/strong> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.design.otago.ac.nz\/\">Department of Design Studies<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/\">University of Otago<\/a> (New Zealand) with <a title=\"V\u00ednculo a la p\u00e1gina del Prof. Bley en la University of Otago\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design.otago.ac.nz\/people\/staff\/thomasbley.php\">Prof. Thomas Bley<\/a> acting as the Head of Department. There I have shared my educational duties with excellent design professionals and teachers like <a title=\"Link to Ralf Hebecker's page in the University of Otago\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design.otago.ac.nz\/people\/staff\/ralfhebecker.php\">Ralf Hebecker<\/a>, <a title=\"Link to Alex Gilks' page in the University of Otago\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design.otago.ac.nz\/people\/staff\/alexgilks.php\">Alex Gilks<\/a>, <a title=\"Link to Scott Savage's page in the University of Otago\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design.otago.ac.nz\/people\/staff\/scottsavage.php\">Scott Savage<\/a> and <a title=\"Link to Andrew Wallace's page in the University of Otago\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design.otago.ac.nz\/people\/staff\/andrewwallace.php\">Andrew Wallace<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999-2000 I have worked as a <strong>Guest Professor<\/strong> for New Media Design at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burg-halle.de\/\">Burg Giebichenstein<\/a>, Faculty of Design, Halle an der Saale (Germany).<\/p>\n<p>I have taught Typography at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadu.uba.ar\/\">Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism<\/a> of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) as assistant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontana-d.com\/\">Prof. Rub\u00e9n Fontana<\/a> (1992-1996) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipografiavenancio.com.ar\/\">Prof. Carlos Venancio<\/a> (1998).<\/p>\n<h2>And\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>In 1998 Carolina and me have obtained an stipendium from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/\">Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/a>, Stuttgart (Germany). The Juror for Design was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guibonsiepe.com\/\">Prof. Gui Bonsiepe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have given <a title=\"Direct link to our talks and workshops\" href=\"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/talks-and-workshops\">talks and workshops<\/a> in several exhibitions, festivals, symposiums and conferences in places like Argentina, Colombia, Germany and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadu.uba.ar\/carreras\/dg-index.html\">Graphic Design<\/a> degree and a postgraduate specialization degree on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadu.uba.ar\/php\/posgrado\/curso.php?id=17\">Theory of Communication Design<\/a>, both from the University of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to contact me, write an e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:tgf@bigital.com\">tgf@bigital.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about me, see my LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tomasgf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View my profile on LinkedIn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/img\/webpromo\/btn_viewmy_160x25.gif\" width=\"160\" height=\"25\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a professional designer and teacher working in the digital realm. As a professional In August 1996 \u2013 together with Carolina Short \u2013 we founded (bi)gital\u00bb, a small design consultancy focused on interaction and information design. I have been working as a consultant, designer, art director, developer, programmer and webmaster \u2013 wearing multiple hats [&hellip;] <span class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/tomas-garcia-ferrari\/\" title=\"Tom\u00e1s Garc\u00eda Ferrari\">&rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}