The Society of News Design's best designer in the world, Marco Hernandez (@TmarcoH) tells us how he grew up in Costa Rican coffee country and has been recruited to a series of jobs that took him around the world. Ever humble, he also talks about how he likes to draw insects to relax and maintains a website dedicated to his failed projects.

Countries featured: Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Singapore, USA

Publications featured: La Nacion, South China Morning Post, Reuters, New York Times

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Marco's story on the bombed bridge in Ukraine - 

His Forbidden City project for SCMP - https://bit.ly/3h7xFcd

More on the Forbidden City that didn't make the original project - https://bit.ly/3E4UEOe

His story on how Hong Kong protestors organized - https://tmsnrt.rs/3FPs5Ww

His story on counting crowd at HK protests - https://tmsnrt.rs/3FK3Jxe 

His story on an iceberg larger than some countries - https://tmsnrt.rs/3zHwiYn

His winning entry for Society of News Design - https://bit.ly/3FW0hzs

His website for failed projects - https://bit.ly/3U1wjyp

The Pudding - https://bit.ly/3E5kXEb

NASA Earth Observatory - https://go.nasa.gov/3U96Y5L

Washington Post story on butterflies - https://wapo.st/3tksskt

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