Ana María van Dierendonck

Ana, born in Bogotá in 2001 is based in Switzerland since 2023, after years of moving across places and languanges. She sees design as an open field for experimentation.

Studied her bachelor’s degree in ↗Pontificia Universidad Javeriana before continuing her education in Europe, where she completed two master’s degrees in design, at the ↗Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel in Collaboration with the ↗University of Illinois at Chicago.

She also lived in Finland, where she attended Swedish-speaking ↗Åbo Akademi University in topics such as Comic-Making, Gender Studies and Research in design through interdisciplinary fields, an experience that sharpened her sensitivity.

Her work moves between intuition and development of systems, often guided by the feeling of enjoying the process of making.

Her practice runs across Operational & Logistics in design fields, graphic design, poster and web design, creative coding, publishing, speculative thinking, fashion and music.

In 2025, as part of her master’s thesis project, she developed →root a digital tool for live-making graphics that simply grow on the internet, the project was later published on ↗Slanted Publishers #47 on digital tools.

She has worked for big design studios in Colombia such as ↗LAVALENTINA.

Whether developing visual systems, building editorial worlds, or exploring music, fashion and art as parallel languages, Ana’s work is marked by a desire to create forms that feel like growing without chaging its soul. Her interest lies not only in designing images but in constructing visual and conceptual environments where different practices can coexist and influence one another.

Education

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Åbo Akademi University

Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel

University of Illinois at Chicago

Bachelor Industrial Design

Exchange

Master of Advanced Studies

Master of Design

2017-
2022

2021-
2022

2023-
2025

2023-2025

Employment

LA VALENTINA
Bogotá Colombia

Adecco
Zürich
Colombia Headquartes

Freelancer

Graphic Designer under the Brand Communication team (2023)

Design Intern (2022)
Community Manager for Colombia and Ecuador (2023)

Since 2018 (8 Years)

Referrals and Mentors

Ted Davis

Jiri Oplatek

Dr. Invar Torre-Hollaus

Manuel Rincón Ovalle

Marysoel León

Lecturer HGK Basel
P5LIVE
Creative Coding

Lecturer HGK Basel
Claudia Basel

Lecturer HGK Basel

(Before)
HR Business Partner LAVALENTINA

(Before)
Adecco Marketing Team

Exhibitions

NEXT GEN
HGK BASEL
(2025)

Root

Press

Slanted Magazine

#47 Digital Tools