Abner Gutiérrez, President and Design Director of ID Group, studied Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico and has a Communications Design degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. He also studied at MITs Visual Studies Workshop summer course. Abner worked in Mexico City for the Mexican government and for the Beatrice Trueblood Studio on identity projects for major corporations and events, corporate publications and historic books. In New York, he worked with Lippincott & Margulies where he participated creating logos for companies such as American Greetings and Bancal. He also participated in various corporate identity and signage projects with Robert Gersin & Associates for clients like Xerox, Sears Roebuck Company and General Electric.
He
also art directed a training film for Xerox in Toronto, Canada. In Puerto
Rico, Abner was the Director of the Design Department of the Design Council
of Puerto Rico, until 1985 when he founded ID Group.
Abners work has been reviewed by various design publications such as
American Corporate Identity, Print Magazine, Packaging Design
and Visual Gráfico. He has also been the recipient of numerous
design awards in Puerto Rico and the United States.
Mayra Maldonado, Vice-President/Graphic Design, has been working
with ID Group since 1989. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico and
Louisiana State University where she obtained a B.F.A. degree in Graphic Design.
She worked as Senior Designer at the Design Council of Puerto Rico, and later,
studied and graduated from Yale University School of Art obtaining a Masters
degree in Graphic Design. She also attended the Yale Summer Program in Graphic
Design in Switzerland and was a Teacher Asistant in drawing during a semester
at Yale. Mayra has vast experience in publication design, logo and identity
design, and has worked in a variety of projects including the design of posters,
packaging, signage and environmental graphics.
Mayras work has been reviewed in Print Magazine, American
Corporate Identity, and Visual Gráfico magazine. She has
been the recipient of numerous awards in Puerto Rico and in the United States
including the B-PAA Star Awards of Southern Connecticut for corporate
identity and a merit award given by the "Fondo Nacional para el Financiamiento
del Quehacer Cultural" from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.
Carolina Carezis, New-Media Director, joined ID Group in January
2000. She has a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design from the Neuman Institute
of Design in Venezuela and a Masters degree in Communications Design
from Pratt Institute. Carolina has worked with publishers such as Random House
and Simon and Schuster, she has designed web pages and characters for educational
software and she has worked with various advertising agencies. In New York
she worked with Gatta Design & Company where she was Senior Designer for
the Central Park Conservancy, the Brooklyn Historical Society, Notre Dame
Academy and the United Nations. In Puerto Rico she worked with FCB Advertising,
Horizon Multimedia, Arco Publicidad and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, where
she worked at the internet department.