Specialization in album cover design

José Antonio Mesones, better known as Goster, is a cofounder of Partners, a graphic design and visual communication studio. Spanning more than two decades, his career includes work with brands such as El Comercio, Backus, Promperú, Adidas, and the Ministerio de Cultura.

He has received three Grammy nominations in the Best Recording Package category and has been recognized nationally and internationally by Padis, ATA, Society of Newspaper Design, DAFOS, and the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for his work as an album cover designer. He has also participated in numerous art and design exhibitions in cities like Bogotá, Berlin, New York, Montreal, London, Barcelona, and Madrid.

Cactus Taller Gráfico is a design studio based in Cali, Colombia. It is made up of Juliana Jaramillo Buenaventura, Carlos Dussán, Luisa María Arango and Daniela Gómez. His specialty is to develop editorial design projects, branding, exhibition design, package design for music, illustration and data visualization. In 2015 and 2017 they won the Latin Grammy in the category of Best Packaging Design and the Anglo-Saxon Grammy in the same category in 2018.

With over 30 years of experience, Steve Simpson is renowned for his hand-lettered packaging design, whimsical characters, and illustrated barcodes. His distinctive style, inspired by the arts & crafts movement, 50s advertising, and folk art, has appeared on everything from a 1" postage stamp to a 200 feet screen in Times Square. His work has adorned whiskey bottles and cough bottles, boardgames and board rooms, hot sauces and ceramic saucers.

Since 2008, Steve has won over 50 awards for both packaging design and illustration, including Gold awards from the Association of Illustrators, Illustrators Guild of Ireland, the IDI and ICAD. He's been an awards judge for Adobe, 3x3, and the Hong Kong Society of Illustrators, and is also a founding member of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland and OFFSKETCH.

Originally from Tucumán, Argentina, Alejandro Ros is a graphic designer. His specialty is album covers and he has collaborated with great bands and singers from all over the world such as Soda Stereo, Cerati, Fito Páez, Julieta Venegas, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Juana Molina, Miranda! Babasónicos, Spinetta, Mercedes Sosa, and Bersuit, to name just a few.

His work was awarded the 2002 Konex platinum award in the graphic design category, as well as 7 Gardel awards, and 3 Grammy awards for album covers. He also gets creative through videos, performances, installations, book covers, magazine covers, and even costume parties.

Paolo Proserpio is a graphic designer who lives and works in Milan. He's been a big fan of the underground music, graphic design, and art scenes since he was young. He first studied at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio followed by the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan where he specialized in graphic design.

He worked in the fields of music and fashion during his student years and continued for a time after graduating. He now has over a decade of experience running his own studio, which focuses on graphic design and art direction, primarily for printed products such as gadgets, T-shirts, catalogs, packaging, and album covers.

From 1999 to 2009, he also worked as a photographer for magazines, webzines, and agencies, as well as MTV.it, capturing images of famous musicians and bands from Italy and around the world. Since 2005, he's been sharing his knowledge on brand design and printmaking techniques as a professor at the I.E.D in Milan, and currently teaches two courses on screen printing at the Domus Academy.