Diego Prestes

Diego Prestes a.k.a “El niño” is a graphic designer and illustrator who writes about himself in third person. He studied Graphic Design at ORT University of Montevideo and illustration at the School of Visual Arts of New York (SVA summer residency, 2012). Partner of latin-american Graphic Design studio AtolondeMororoa.com / Currently at Pentagram NY.

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He worked in small graphic design studios and big advertising agencies for some years.
Not very happy with the structures and the way advertising business worked,
he co-founded in 2010 the Atolón de Mororoa graphic design studio with four friends/partners,
looking for experimentation, lack of rules and a place to play. He is very happy now :)

Teaches Identity and Illustration at local design schools.
Co-founder of the Montevideo Drawing Club.
Member of the garage band Los Nuevos Creyentes. Read Less

- NOVUM, (Munich).
“Atolón de Mororoa remains true to its basic philosophy of experimentation, sometimes going for a retro feel, at other times brash and loud - it’s a South American surprise package that keeps delivering.”

- étapes, (París).
"Based in Montevideo, Uruguay, and founded in January of 2010, the Atolón de Mororoa studio brings together graphic designers Andrés Amodio, Zelmar Borrás, Diego Fernández and Diego Prestes. These multidisciplinary artists create quite a number of posters as visual identities, packaging, or websites, all the while varying styles and drawing on the influences of punk, constructivism and South American culture." Read Less