Future Me: Ballet Dancer

Ana Sanfelippo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982, and currently lives and works in Madrid. She is an illustrator, graphic and pattern designer, letter artist, and a cats' friend. Ana studied Design and Typography at the University of Buenos Aires, where she was an Illustration and Typography teacher for 14 years. She also made many illustration and calligraphy workshops. Ana has published books internationally in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, USA, Spain, England, and Switzerland, and one of them selected by IBBY as one of the 'Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities'. As a typographer, some of Ana's designs were published at Google Web Fonts and were exhibited at the Bienal Latinoamericana de Diseño (Latin American Design Biennial) and at Tipos Latinos (Latin Types). And finally, together with Ángela Corti and Laura Varsky, she founded the With Love from Argentina collective, in order to expand the Argentinian pattern design market. Ana mainly works with paper, gouaches, markers and pencils are materials. She likes to include curious characters and vibrant colours that live in dynamic spaces full of nature in her compositions.