We keep going on and on about how much we love paper and how print is not dead but gosh, there’s no way this magazine would’ve been possible before the digital era. That’s the beauty of it: we get to print Yuca because technology brings us together. We’re a team of three, a team which feels like a marriage sometimes, love periods, not-so-much-love periods, caring for the baby the magazine, sometimes not having enough time to care for the baby. We’re a team of three people who have actually never been together in the same spot. But our hearts are in the same place. We like being creative, we like being painstakingly thorough, we make bad jokes and stray to banal conversations in almost every skype or whatsapp “meeting”.
Lina Rincón
Founder, Editor in Chief, Editor, Creative director And communication manager.
Lina was born and raised in Bogotá. She’s passionate about learning new things and likes to unveil beauty in everyday life. She grew up asking a lot of questions, observing and seeking to further understand the world and others. Lina graduated as a Fashion Designer, and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in History and Geography from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and a Masters degree in Cultural Studies from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She has worked as a researcher, writer, editor, communications specialist and translator for clients such as Pensando en Blanco, El Jardín de las Delicias, Estudio Índice, PNUD and USAID. She is one of the two founders, creative directors and chief editors of Yuca and she recently funded Marble & Water, an editorial creative project which encompasses a wide range of editorial, brand identity and writing services. She has an acute sense of aesthetics and a deep interest for all artistic expressions, but especially literature —there’s few things she cherishes more than the quiet company of a good book.
Carles Murillo
Contributing Editor, Graphic Designer and Art director
Carles Murillo is a Barcelona-based graphic designer, independent art director and co-editor of Yuca Mag- azine. For 13 years he was project manager and lead designer in the Barcelona headquarters of Bisdixit design studio. He is specialized in editorial design and he works most- ly within the fields of culture and contemporary art. His projects have been praised with several awards including Laus Awards, Daniel Gil Prizes (Visual), Art Directors Club of New York, the Tokyo Type Director’s Club, and the ADCE. Addition- ally, he was awarded a Young Gun at the ADC Young Guns held by the Art Directors Club of New York. Since 2012, he has taught in the graduate and undergraduate design programs at Barcelona’s IDEP, Escuela Superior de Diseño.
Juliana Gómez
Founder, Editor in Chief And Creative Director, Curator.
Juliana was born in Cali/Colombia and spend 11 years in Barcelona, she is a creative director, advisor and project producer based in Amsterdam. Her work sits at the intersections between different forms of expression including editorial, photography, design, filmmaking and art. Her drive is to make these collide in cohesive, meaningful collaborative projects. She combines her social and cultural psychology background and extensive experience as a photographer and filmmaker to question the established methods, seek for beauty, and explore forms, tonalities, and languages in order to nourish creative projects.
As a cultural entrepreneur she funded and leads No Water For Whales a creative platform based in Amsterdam that produces creative content, photography, filmmaking, and editorial projects through a myriad of collaborations and formats.
Lina & Juliana( hopefully we’ll have soon the picture of the three of us together)