Collage Meets Design

Jorge Chamorro (Madrid, Spain, 1972) is an independent graphic designer, collage artist and teacher. He earned a bachelor¿s degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) in 1995 and has worked as art director for ten years in studios and agencies, developing projects for companies like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Ikea and Toyota. Since 2005, he has worked independently on projects for Café Royal Paris, the famous dancer Yomiko Yoshioka, Greenpeace, Random House and others. He discovered collage in 2006, which has since become for him an irreplaceable art form. He has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, in Spain, Germany, Belgium and France, and his work has appeared in innumerable art and design magazines and books in Europe and America. Jorge Chamorro conducts regularly workshops and conferences in such diverse places as the Bauhaus University in 2015 and 2016 (Weimar, Germany) and the autodidactic learning website "The Workshop on Forster". Since 2010 he has taught graphic design and collage. He lives and works in Berlin and Madrid.