team

Founder Maurici Ginés, together with Alessandra Bertolini, Barcelona office Principal, and Jose Cardona, Mexico office Principal, leads a global team of highly experienced professionals.

The Barcelona studio offers services throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The Mexico City studio serves North, Central, and South America.

Our team consists of specialists in lighting design, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and multimedia artwork: a versatile group of professionals who work together to provide unique and exceptional lighting designs to clients worldwide.

Maurici Ginés
Founder & Creative Director

Lighting design professional since 1994.
In 1998, he founded artec3 Studio to introduce and promote the independent lighting design profession. From 2008 to 2014 he was the president of the Professional Lighting Designers Association of Spain (APDI) and has been a member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) since 2009. Maurici has many national and international awards to his name, and his work has been widely published. He has been teaching lighting design at UPC Master in Barcelona since 2011, and UPC/Arquine postgraduate in Mexico City since 2014.

Alessandra Bertolini
Director Barcelona

Alessandra comes from an architectural background, with more than 10 years of experience working with lighting in different fields. After completing a degree in Architecture in Rome in 2004, followed by a Lighting Design Master in Rome, she worked with passion in all areas of lighting design, developing outdoor and indoor lighting projects for several award-winning lighting consultancies in Italy and the UK. Since 2016, she has worked for artec3 as the office Director in Barcelona.

José Cardona
Director Mexico City

Jose is a lighting, interior, and industrial designer, born in Barcelona in 1977, with several recognized projects to his name. He joined artec3 in 2002, taking over the Mexico City office in 2013 as artec3 Director for Mexico and North and South America. He is also the Academic Coordinator of the lighting design postgraduate course at UPC/Arquine in Mexico City and has lectured on lighting design in numerous countries.