Contact Details

Email: carolina@waikato.ac.nz
Room: G.G.10
Phone: +64 7 837 9467
Extension: 9467
Website: http://bigital.com/

About Carolina

Carolina Short is a Senior Tutor of Bachelor of Design at the University of Waikato. Previously, she held academic positions at the University of Otago (New Zealand), the Burg-Giebichenstein School of Art and Design (Germany) and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She has delivered postgraduate courses, seminars, and workshops, as well as published several articles, papers and books chapters on different areas of Design. She founded (bi)gital» in 1996 and since then, works for companies and institutions in Latin America, Europe, and New Zealand as designer and consultant. Some of the institutions (bi)gital» has been working with are the HfG Archive Ulm, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Buenos Aires Book Fair, Akademie Schloß Solitude, revista tipoGráfica. Carolina has a Graphic Design degree and a Master in Communication Design Theory from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU), Argentina.

I am very passionate about typography, in 2019 I created Mansalva and it became part of the Google Fonts Collection: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mansalva

You can follow my type developments through GitHub https://github.com/carolinashort

Teaching Commitments

Recent Publications

• Short, C., Garcia Ferrari, T., & Quijano, M. (2016). HfG-Archiv Ulm Online. De la realidad exclusiva a la virtualidad inclusiva. RChD: creación y pensamiento, 1(1), 13-25. doi:10.5354/0718-2430.2016.44192 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11617

• Garcia Ferrari, T., Soo, K., & Short, C. (2015). 1… 2… 3… C… G… D… (No. Of Pieces: 1) [Exhibition]. Open Day 2015, The University of Waikato.

• Short, C., & Garcia Ferrari, T. (2015). Twitter y la subjetividad en la encrucijada de la vida moderna. IF, 10, 30-31. Retrieved from http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/sites/gcaba/files/if_10_tapa_e_interior.pdf

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