Dr. Gerardo Kloss has been a designer, editor, proofreader, typographer, screenwriter, publicist, and reporter. Rather than trying to become a specialist, he has dedicated himself to constructing a broad academic field for Editorial Studies in Mexico, seeking relationships and interactions between disciplines whose close connection is not always visible, as they are considered part of different fields: design, editing, reading, education, cultural economics, rhetoric, semiotics, sociology, and copyright law.
He studied Graphic Communication Design at UAM Xochimilco, a master's degree in Editing at the University of Guadalajara, and a doctorate in Image, Art, Culture, and Society at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. At UAM Xochimilco, he was responsible for the Editorial Program of the Division of Sciences and Arts for Design (1992-1997), he created the newsletter 'Espacio Diseño' (1993), coordinated the Graphic Communication Design program (2000-2005), and has been coordinating the master's degree in Design and Editorial Production since 2009.
He has written three academic books: 'Entre el diseño y la edición' (2002), 'El papel del editor' (2007), and 'Historia, diseño y edición' (2013), as well as the essay "Las escuelas de diseño gráfico" in the collective book '100 años de diseño gráfico en México' (2009). He is a member of the American Semiotics Society (SSA) and the International Typographic Association (ATypI), and also participates in EuroPub, the European Association of Editorial Studies.
He is the secretary of the Mexican Typography Association and chairs the Surveillance Committee of the Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Design Programs (Comaprod). In the past, he was president, treasurer, and editor of the Mexican Association of Graphic Design Schools (Encuadre).
Currently, he serves as the unit secretary at UAM Cuajimalpa, being responsible for the following organizational structure:
