CASTRO, Karl Fredrick M.

Status: 
Full Time
Email: 
kcastro@ateneo.edu
Contact No.: 
632-8426-6001
Biography: 

Karl Castro (b. 1986) helps cultivate conversations and interventions across various creative fields, with a focus on art, design, and cinema. His areas of interest include culture, books, travel, craft, history, and Filipino identity. He is an acclaimed book designer for cultural and scholarly volumes, and poster designer for diverse works of Philippine cinema. He has designed, curated, and participated in exhibitions on institutional memory, contemporary issues, and community-based creative work. He creates art in various media, including painting, weaving, and photomedia. He is currently a lecturer at the Fine Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies departments, Ateneo de Manila University.

Areas of Specialization: 

design, art, cinema, Philippine culture, editorial design

Professional Association & Recognition: 

Winner, Silver Anvil, Publication Category
Anvil Awards 2020, for Rizal Library Nation Building

Winner, Book Design Category
Philippine National Book Awards 2017, for Colonial Manila, 1909–1912

Winner, Book Design Category
Philippine National Book Awards 2015, for The Manila Synod of 1582

Excellence Awardee for Best Use of Design, Layout & Presentation category
Asian Publishing Awards 2012, for Vault Magazine

Finalist, Book Design Category
Philippine National Book Awards 2012, for Almanak ng Isang Aktibista

Best Design, Book Category
Adobo Design Awards 2012, for Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata

Yellow Trophy, Publication Category
Philippine Graphic Design Awards 2011, for If I Write You This Poem, Will You Make It Fly

Winner, Book Design Category
Philippine National Book Awards 2010, for Palaspas

Black Trophy, Bound Pieces Category
Philippine Graphic Design Awards 2010, for Palaspas

White Trophy, Open Category (Offline)
Philippine Graphic Design Awards 2010, for Imagining Ronel Raguing, 25

Winner, Book Design Category
Philippine National Book Awards 2009, for The Philippines through European Lenses

Finalist, Poster Category
Adobo Design Awards 2008, for Green

Courses Taught: 

IS: Filipino Film and Society
FA: Philippine Design, Basic Typography, Advanced Typography, Print and Publication Design

Research Interest: 

creativity, social movements, Philippine design, art and authoritarianism, memory

Education: 
"Bachelor of Arts in Film and Audiovisual Communication, 2008 College of Mass Communication University of the Philippines - Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Major in Visual Arts, 2003 Philippine High School for the Arts Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines "