María Sanchez is a designer and university professor currently living in Ituzaingó (Buenos Aires). Her fields of interest range from architecture to communication, illustration, and technology. A graduate of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina, she specialized in courses taught by Hans Hollein and Carl Auböck at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. She worked for fifteen years in Italy and then in the United States for numerous internationally renowned companies. After meeting Ettore Sottsass in 1985, she collaborated with the Memphis Group, designing the famous Squash ashtray, characterized by its signature overlapping shapes and colors. Today, she is a strategic design consultant for numerous companies and government agencies, an academic researcher, and a professor at various universities in Argentina, Mexico, Panama, and Chile.
