Manuel Viñas Limonchi was born in Andalusia, Spain, and brings with him over 12 years of experience in design and production.

He is a designer, writer and researcher specializing in computer sciences, architecture, design, computer graphics and Virtual Reality.

His educational background includes a PhD in Fine Arts, addressing in design and computer sciences, University of Granada, Spain.

Most of his design derives to the development of projects linked to the use of new technologies in those fields related to creative methodology based on graphic identity. Among Manuel’s personal work, we can mention: “Virtual Temple. The paradigm of a new building”, proposal of temple in which the ancestral religious iconographies are replaced by electronic visualization devices; or, “Graphinder: Customizable Search Engine for Web Documents Using Graphic Resources”, an innovator graphic browser for Internet.

Manuel is the author of the books: “Graphic Computing Techniques. Methodological creative variables in the development of the digital image”, “Virtual Temple: The paradigm of a new building, and “21 Century: Preambles of the Digital Humanism”.

Técnicas de Infografía. Variables creativas metodológicas en el desarrollo de la imagen digital. Publishers, McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España, S.A.U. Madrid, 2000. ISBN 84-481-2849-4. Published in Spain and America.

Templo Virtual. El paradigma de un nuevo edificio. Análisis conceptual y constructivo de los elementos integrantes, previo a su inserción en plataforma VR. Editor, C. Serrano Villalba. Granada, 2004. ISBN 84-95936-35-6.

S.21. The Prologues of the Digital Humanism. Publishers, C. Serrano Villalba. Granada, 2005. ISBN 84-95936-45-3.

Manuel also writes and collaborates in different magazines and newspaper related to new media, art and technology. He is part of the research team: “Arquitectura, Paisaje y Proyecto Ambiental, HUM 637” of the University of Granada, supported by the Plan Andaluz de Investigación (PAI). His main responsibility as researcher is to design digital graphic projects related to different architectural and design matters.

He is also Professor of 3D modeling and computer graphics in FOREM Foundation, Spain.

Languages: Spanish, English.