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Mateo Rivera

Head of production

Portrait of Mateo Rivera

At the studio since

2014

Based in

Your City

Leads

Production, print

Favourite typeface

Whatever prints sharp at 6pt

Currently reading

The Checklist Manifesto

About

Mateo

Mateo turns designs into real things: printed boxes, shot campaigns, launched websites. He knows every supplier by name.

He plans each project backwards from the launch date, so nothing is ever a surprise in the final week.

Before the studio he ran production for a print house, which is why our proofs always arrive early.

16

Years in production

300+

Print runs managed

0

Missed launch dates

In their words

The plan is part of the design.

Short questions

Ten minutes

with

Mateo

.

What makes good work last?

Files that are easy to find five years later.

What do you say no to?

Deadlines nobody has checked with the printer.

Best advice for clients?

Talk to your suppliers before you finish the design.

Where do ideas come from?

Factory floors and paper mills.

Recognition

Awards and talks.

2025

Gold, Packaging Production

Form & Function

2024

Print Partner of the Year

Paper & Press Guild

2023

Talk: Proofing Without Tears

Print Week

2021

Merit, Finishing

Form & Function

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