Rebeca Méndez

Rebeca Méndez (June 8, 1962; Mexico City) is a Mexican-American artist and graphic designer. She is a professor at UCLA Design Media Arts in Los Angeles, California, and since July 2020 is chair of the department, as well as founder and director of the Counterforce Lab. Her Vice-chair Peter Lunenfeld wrote about her: "Rebeca has won the three most significant awards in the field of design: The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Communication Design, 2012, the AIGA Medal in 2017, and induction to the One Club Hall of Fame in 2017. This triple crown would be worthy enough on its own, more than worthy, absolutely exceptional, but when you add in that Rebeca is the first and only Latina to win each one of these, much less all three, the achievement is towering." In fact, she is the only woman ever to have received all these three awards, while Bob Greenberg from R/GA is the only man to have received all of them.

Margaret Andersen, in the biography she wrote when Méndez was awarded the AIGA Medal, notes that Méndez has worked across various cultural and professional domains. Andersen highlights Méndez's ability to contribute to both design and art, as evidenced by her roles in art galleries, advertising agencies, and university classrooms, which reflect the range of her expertise." Provided by Wikipedia