José Luis Merino nace en Barcelona en Mayo de 1962.
Estudia en la escuela Eina de Barcelona.
En 1985 comienza a trabajar como diseñador gráfico en varios estudios y agencias de publicidad hasta 1998, año en el que se independiza para fundar su actual estudio de diseño gráfico e ilustración.
Desde el año 2004 imparte clases de ilustración en el Graduado Superior de diseño en la Escuela Elisava, para el Postgrado de Ilustración Creativa en la escuela Eina y para el Master en Dirección de Arte de la Universitat Ramon Llull de Barcelona.
Ha diseñado el diario deportivo Olé y la revista Mística en Buenos Aires, el diario Jornal de Noticias para Oporto, el diario deportivo Nemezti Sport para Budapest y el diario deportivo Sport en Barcelona. Todos ellos para la empresa Cases Associats.
Entre sus clientes se encuentran BMW, Doyle & Partners, Elle Germany, Elle Decor UK, Fast Company, Food Ilustrated, Food & Wine, Forbes, Freixenet, Gourmet, GQ UK, Harper Collins, Harper's Bazaar USA, La Vanguardia, London Sunday Telegraph, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Madame Figaro, Madame Figaro Japan, Neiman Marcus, Pedro García, Philadelphia Inquirer, Planeta, Playboy USA, Red Magazine, Ritz-Carlton, San Miguel, Smart Money, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post Magazine, The World Financial Center, Town & Country, Travel & Leisure, W, Williams-Sonoma Taste Magazine, Worth.
Sus trabajos han sido galardonados y publicados en los anuarios de competiciones como The AOI, American Illutration, Archive, Communication Arts, D&AD, Premis Junceda, Premis Laus, The Art Directors Club of Europe y SND. Sus ilustraciones han sido publicadas también en los libros Illustration Now de la editorial Taschen y 200 Best Illustrators de Lürzer’s Archive.
Como Ilustrador está representado internacionalmente por la agencia Kate Larkworthy de Nueva York y la agencia Zegma en España.
José Luis Merino was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1962.
He studied at Eina Art School in Barcelona.
In 1985 he began working as a graphic designer in several advertising agencies and design studios until 1998 when he established his present graphic design and illustration studio.
Since 2004 he has been teaching illustration in the Superior Graduate on Design at Elisava School, in the postgraduate in Creative illustration at Eina School and in the Master on Art Direction at Ramon Llull university in Barcelona.
He has designed Olé Newspaper and Mística Magazine in Buenos Aires, Jornal de Noticias Newspaper from Oporto, Nemezti in Budapest and Sport in Barcelona. All of them for the design company Cases Associats.
His clients include BMW, Doyle & Partners, Elle Germany, Elle Decor UK, Fast Company, Food Ilustrated, Food & Wine, Forbes, Freixenet, Gourmet, GQ UK, Harper Collins, Harper's Bazaar USA, La Vanguardia, London Sunday Telegraph, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Madame Figaro, Madame Figaro Japan, Neiman Marcus, Pedro García, Philadelphia Inquirer, Planeta, Playboy USA, Red Magazine, Ritz-Carlton, San Miguel, Smart Money, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post Magazine, The World Financial Center, Town & Country, Travel & Leisure, W, Williams-Sonoma Taste Magazine, Worth.
His works have been selected and published in several annual competition books, as The AOI, American Illutration, Archive, Communication Arts, D&AD, Premis Junceda, Premis Laus, The Art Directors Club of Europe and SND. His illustrations have also been published in the books Illustration Now from Taschen publishers and 200 Best Illustrators from Lürzer’s Archive.
As an Illustrator he is represented worldwide by Kate Larkworthy Artist Representation in New York and Zegma Agency in Spain.