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Jesús López rebrands a boutique Mexican hotel to reflect its local history and landscape

Anagrama's identity for Mexican sweet and tea shop Bonnard is all sorts of excellent

Rob Ryan: For Haiti 2011

Kristin Bedford’s new book is a personal documentation of Mexican American lowrider culture in LA

Tyler Woodford photographs scenes on the streets of Mexico City in his latest series

Unearthing a “quaint” Jamaica with photographer Jeano Edwards in his new project EverWonderful

Let Mark Alor Powell give you a tour of the weirder side of Mexico...

New identity from design studio Alphabetical centres around Mayan patterns

Years in the making, Juan Brenner’s Genesis is an archive of life in the Guatemalan Highlands

Sean Alexander Geraghty talks identity and traditions with Cuba’s diminishing Chinese population

“A flagship of Mexico’s visual identity”: Alex Kurunis documents the declining art of hand-painted signage

Playful gifs with a surreal slant from Venezuelan illustrator Igor Bastidas

Nadia Hernandez’s collage works display Venezuelan folklore and a charming tactility

O’shane Howard reimagines nostalgic moments from his childhood in Jamaica

Tria Giovan’s thoughtful portrait of Cuba in the 1990s

Celebrating the riders who keep their small Peruvian island on the map and on the move

World Cup 2014: Tom Jenkins photographs inside São Paulo's Panini sticker factory

Filmmaker Maceo Frost captures the formidable Cuban boxer Namibia with rhythmic flair

Rody Oliveira’s photography gives a voice to the queer BIPOC community of Rio de Janeiro

Brasilândia is a multidisciplinary platform for the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities of São Paulo

Why London studio Julia is off to Brazil, to see a mid-century magazine through modern eyes

Irina Werning photographs the long-haired women of Argentina

The other side: AGI Open Mexico explores what it means “to live on opposite sides of an imaginary wall”

Ana Flores on growing a photographic practice from her Peruvian roots

Nina Manandhar photographs Mexico City's newspaper sellers

Argentinian illustrator Maria Luque's intuitive approach

The View from São Paulo: exploring the city through Andrés Sandoval’s evocative maps

Sebastian Errazuriz: Chilean Miners Tribute

O Turvo is a new publication bringing criticality to Brazil’s design scene

World Cup 2014: Christoph Niemann goes in search of Brazil's World Cup curse

The results of Anthony Burrill's Sao Paulo workshop to be shown in London

José Castrellón documents the workers smuggling fuel from Venezuela into Colombia

Photographer Nick Ballon's series is a portrait of Bolivia’s second largest city and its people

Carpooling the Mexican way – photographer Alejandro Cartagena documents it beautifully

Te Mata: a studio visually adjusting “the still diluted Peruvian identity”

Shiny, slick work from Mexico's Savvy Studio

Brazilian studio Monga wants to inspire positivity and respect throughout the graphic design industry

Zoran Lucić’s posters for Lucha Libre visualise the stars of Mexican wrestling

The complexities of life in Rio de Janeiro from photographer Stefanie Moshammer

Day Brièrre creates deceptively textured digital illustrations harking back to Haitian traditions

Sometimes Always’ identity for São Paulo bar Caracol has over 10 billion compositions

Fantastic showcase of Jamaican dance hall illustration at KK Outlet

Nice work from Brazilian design graduate Fernando Chaves

This unique photobook is an unexpected trip through Mexico City’s witchcraft markets and magical soaps

It's Nice That is heading to Brazil, and we'd love to hear from local creatives

Photography: Mexico, India and Morocco through the eyes of photographer Mowgli

Rodrigo Sombra’s four-year project explores Cuba's shifting identity as the island opens up to the world

Design studio Anagrama's solid identity for a Mexican restaurant

Graphic Design: Incredible Cuban propaganda posters from OSPAAAL

You’re in for a treat with Ella Pavlides’ photo series on Mexico City’s unsung heroes – dog walkers

São Paulo label Cotton Project is re-inventing a cool, contemporary Brazil

Playful mixed media works from Chilean artist Mario Felipe

Maxwell Alexandre’s large-scale paintings are infused with Brazilian pop culture and hip-hop

Leah Gordon photographs the Freemasons of contemporary Haiti

Serious Things a Go Happen: exploring Jamaican dancehall through graphic design

Christopher Payne shoots Colombian sweets factory for The New York Times Magazine

Graphic Design: Peruvian Gabriela Maskrey delights us again with art show catalogue

Mico Toledo's Velho Chico, illustrated by Sophy Hollington, augments Brazilian folklore

Photographer Cécile Baudier explores Costa Chica's Afro-Mexican community

Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records documents the origins of Jamaican and British youth culture

You will want to spend all your time at bar and restaurant Gomez in Mexico

Photography: Catherine Losing and Anna Lomax celebrate Cuban shop windows

Chilean illustrator Camilo Huinca’s stylised portraits of “real moments”

Pablo Di Prima thoughtfully documents Colombian teenagers in an exploration of identity and beauty

Product Design: JWT Brazil's superhero rebrand of cancer treatments

Photographer Carlos Jaramillo captures the pigeon racers of Cuba

Can Can Press is the Risograph studio reshaping the print and zine scene in Mexico City

Immersive sculptures of giant intestines from Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira

Mexican illustrator Elena Boils’s luscious floral prints for YCN

Through celebratory photographs, Silvana Trevale captures the economic, social and political crisis in Venezuela

Extinção? is a new book that pieces together a thoughtful, “intricate puzzle” of Brazilian creatives

Tom Cockram's photographs of Brazil’s street culture in the lead up to last year’s World Cup

Event: Vice team up with el Jimador for a Mexican-themed event!

Todd Antony photographs the whirling, wrestling, mountain-climbing Cholitas of El Alto, Bolivia

Waska Tatay explores the rites and rituals of Bolivian witchcraft and pagan practice

Jane Stockdale went to Brazil to photograph the crowds watching the World Cup

Publication: Yusuke Miyagawa's portrait of Kingston, Jamaica

Gabriel Sanchez paints the strength, hope and vulnerability of Cuban youth

Paolo Zerbini photographs Mexico City quite unlike you’ve ever seen it before

Young Colombian creative Zamir Bermeo Rhodes creates weird worlds and wonderful characters