In January 2010 Tóxico Cultura and Blok Design launch a new grant: The Blok+Toxico Film Project, created to support young talented filmmakers and visual artists working in Mexico with professional video and audio equipment, free film stock, help with the design of titles, posters etc, plus the possibility of being part of a mentorship program with experienced filmmakers.

And good news starts coming in, even before we have officially started. We just received news from Vanessa Eckstein–the wonderful woman behind the logo and print design, plus our accomplice in this new adventure– that the project’s image won an award at the coming Coupe International Design Competition. It seems the competition is usually quite fierce: last year’s 10 winners include Stefan Sagmeister–one of the world’s most admired designers, a TED speaker and also Tóxico’s first international guest. So needless to say we feel honored and are very happy indeed to be included in this year’s top-ten list.

(More news on this soon, and a bilingual website too.)

(Tantas felicidades Vanessa y Paty)