The 11th edition of the International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico invited Rebeca Méndez to be one of 100 designers and artists participating in the collection ‘Voices in Freedom.’ Méndez’s artwork, Circumpolar created in collaboration with her life partner and writer Adam Eeuwens, moves beyond political and national boundaries and focuses on the circumpolar flight of the arctic tern, who travels from the North Pole to the South Pole and back again, from Boreal Summer to Austral Summer, traversing 520 kilometers a day, 70,900 kilometers total. The arctic tern lives the most daylight of any creature in the world.

BANANAS! is a documentary film about the disturbing global politics of the banana, the incredible gap between our world and what we call the third world, scientific choices, corporate behaviour, and about the very food we eat.

Rebeca Méndez is the creative director and designer of the visual identity for BANANAS!, and in particular responsible for the asterisk behind the title. See project HERE

MOBIUS is AIA (American Institute of Architects) Los Angeles’ Design Conference. Méndez lectures and is in the panel discussion of the Saturday, June 27 session: ‘Whose Art is it Anyways?’ with Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA – Lehrer Architects LA, Merry Norris, Hon. AIA/LA – Merry Norris Contemporary Art, Michael Palladino, FAIA – Richard Meier & Partners Architects, LLP, and Laura Zucker – Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

The event focuses on presentations and discussions around the question: ‘What are the challenges and opportunities of adding meaning, delight and economy when artists and architects collaborate?’

Rebeca Méndez received a Gold Award from Graphis, The International Journal of Visual Communication, for ‘40’, a poster designed to announce Adam Eeuwens’ 40th Birthday party. Photograph taken at the beach of Azucar Hotel in Monte Gordo, Veracruz, México.

Adam and Rebeca performed a ‘Pecha Kucha’ lecture at the Center for Multimedia Literacy at USC (on Oct 17), organized by Holly Willis, director of the center, and at UCLA, Design | Media Arts (on Nov. 04), organized by the ‘Interactivists’ student group. A+R’s Pecha Kucha responded to the following premise: Americans, especially younger Americans, often feel disenfranchised and disconnected from the political process and the possibility for change. What do you want to change, and how do you imagine making that change happen within our current political climate?