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He is a Colombian graphic designer who graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, he has a master’s degree in history by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá and a PhD in history and arts by the Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Diego is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Creation and Habitat in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá since 2010. He is an associate researcher recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Colombia since 2018.

He has linkage with Amnesty International (UK), ICoD (Canada), Design History Society (UK), Society for News Design, (EE.UU), Trama Visual (Mexico), Fundació Història del Disseny (Spain), Open Design Alliance (USA), Coidigra (Venezuela), Cidyc (Argentina), and Red Académica de Diseño (Colombia).

Bermúdez has been a lecturer and workshop instructor in different places in the world. His work has been exhibited and reviewed in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, South Korea, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Slovakia, Spain, USA, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Dominican Republic, Russia, Switzerland, South Africa, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

He is a co-author of the books Convite: sistematización de una experiencia colaborativa, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (2018), Star System y la mujer: representaciones de lo femenino en Colombia de 1930 a 1940, Univesity of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2016), and Metodología para el diseño del cartel social desde América Latina, National University of Colombia (2010). Diego has been selected in the books Latin American Graphic Design, Taschen (2008); A Tribute to celebrities, Index Book (2008); Design School Confidential, Rockport (2009); Experimental Patterns, Rockport (2010); Type Sketchbook, Thames and Hudson (2011); Design Elements Color Fundamentals, Rockport (2012); Consideraciones acerca del cartel, Design Center of Rosario (2013); Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World, Princeton Architectural Press (2015); Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Publishing (2016); Extendiendo el espectro temático del Diseño, Qartuppi (2016); Educación, Aplicación e Innovación en Diseño, Qartuppi (2018); Coordenadas del Diseño, Ediciones Diseño (2019), and Materia amplia #1. Investigación universitaria, Universidad de Granada (2020).

He is a member of the Editorial Council of the magazine I+Diseño (Spain).