Ed Ponce

Type de­sign­er Fabi­o­la Mejía has es­tab­lished a sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence in the Cos­ta Ri­can de­sign com­mu­ni­ty. Part­ly due to her con­tin­u­ous con­tri­bu­tion to Berlin-based type foundry Di­namo, her work ex­tends across projects of var­i­ous scales and clients of dif­fer­ent sizes. Dur­ing the ear­ly 2020s, she found­ed SU­PER­CON­TI­NENTE, a new home to host her in­de­pen­dent type prac­tice that hon­ors the ex­per­i­men­tal, re­search-based and mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary na­ture of her craft.

She ap­proached me to build an en­tire­ly be­spoke web por­tal that func­tions not only as a cat­a­log of her work and ser­vices but also as the main store­front to li­cense her type­faces and pur­chase lim­it­ed-edi­tion col­lab­o­ra­tions with friends and al­lies spe­cial­iz­ing in oth­er cre­ative fields.

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Made for use in sin­gles, mer­chan­dise and pro­mo­tion­al con­tent of ris­ing Cos­ta Ri­can pop­star CAN­I­NA and her cur­rent al­bum cy­cle.

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Jour­nal­ist Car­los Soto start­ed La Necedad dur­ing the ear­ly COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. Col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween a di­verse ros­ter of writ­ers has al­lowed La Necedad to be­come a voice for cel­e­brat­ing lo­cal up-and-com­ing arts and mu­sic scenes and pop cul­ture at large. Ini­tial­ly a Sub­stack newslet­ter, he ap­proached me to build a new pub­lish­ing plat­form that grants him com­plete own­er­ship and in­de­pen­dence over the con­tent pro­duced.

The new web­site ex­pands on the read­er’s and writer’s ex­pe­ri­ence by in­te­grat­ing new fea­tures like a mod­ern con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem with mul­ti­me­dia blocks, more cus­tomiz­able newslet­ter con­fig­u­ra­tion, sup­port for mul­ti­ple au­thors, dif­fer­ent lay­outs for ar­ti­cles and a sig­na­ture vi­su­al over­haul.

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The event took place on June 29, 2025 at Club Rosso (San José, Cos­ta Rica). David Piedra and I do­nat­ed our earn­ings for this project to Trans­vi­da, lo­cal non-prof­it or­ga­ni­za­tion for trans rights and pro­tec­tion.

“VOLÁTIL” was award­ed Best Elec­tron­ic Sin­gle of 2025 by ACAM.

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Ma­te­r­i­al pro­duced for this new event bridges the gap be­tween dig­i­tal and phys­i­cal as an al­le­go­ry for fan­ta­sy and re­al­i­ty cross­ing over. Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion with scan­ners was an in­te­gral part of my cre­ative process while bring­ing this vi­sion to life. Main poster and In­sta­gram avatar were pro­ject­ed onto a low-de­f­i­n­i­tion LCD screen and pho­tographed to add tex­ture and depth.

The event took place on Sep­tem­ber 20, 2025 at Oa­sis La Calle (San José, Cos­ta Rica).

Co-founders Nico­la and Ot­tavio ap­proached Los Hop­per with the vi­sion for their ini­tia­tive, The Ar­ti­san Lab. Based in Rwan­da, they col­lab­o­rate with lo­cal ar­ti­sans to con­nect their craft with cus­tomers abroad. We de­vel­oped a vi­su­al iden­ti­ty and vir­tu­al store­front that plays a sup­port­ive role in high­light­ing their sto­ry­telling and con­nec­tion with lo­cal ar­ti­sans.

The web­site was on­line through­out 2024 and 2025. Work done at Los Hop­per. Pow­ered by Eleven­ty and Shopi­fy.

The web­site was on­line through­out 2022 and 2023 at pbs.group.

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