Rico Lins was born in 1955 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Designer, art director, educator and curator, he runs his creative studio established in São Paulo for print, film, exhibition, new media design and brand consultancy. He has worked around Paris, London, New York, Rio and São Paulo since 1979 and won several deserved international awards and exhibitions as the one man show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1982, at the Museums of Modern Art Rio and Contemporary Art Sao Paulo and the traveling retrospective "Rico Lins: Graphic Borderlines" in 2009. As a curator, he concieved the "Brazil in Posters", "Connexions>Conexões" and "Chaumont Posters" international design projects. His work was published in several design magazines and books as "Meggs' History of Graphic Design", "Graphic Design Since 1950", "First Choice", "All Men Are Brothers", "One by One", "Design of Dissent", "The Sourcebook of Contemporary Graphic Design" and "Taschen Latin American Graphic Design" among others; magazines as Graphis, Print, Novum, Creative Review, Experimenta, Linea Grafica, Étapes, Idea, +81Tokio and Tupigrafia. His work features at the São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art, the Munich Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, the Musée de l'Affiche, Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, Bibliotheque Nationalle Française in Paris and Pôle Graphisme Chaumont collections. A former NY School of Visual Arts teacher, started the first program in Graphic Design at the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) Strategic Design Master in São Paulo and is responsible for Design MBA program at BSP/Laureate. Rico was nominated the best brazilian graphic designer in 2001 and has been an AGI member since 1997.

Rico Lins +Studio is a creative collective with associates and temporary external contributors ranging from architecture; product, fashion, film, interactive and game designers working closely with a network of writers, curators, anthropologists and education consultants in a per-project basis.

FRONTEIRA, his most recent venture, is a flexible cooperative of creative and communication co-workers located on a three-floor working space in Sao Paulo. Independent and experimental projects are developed there, along with workshops, discussion panels and an international residence program for students and young professionals.