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Óscar Mariné and Grupo Kettal, Spanish National Design Prize 2010
Gloria Inglis
03.12.2010 | 14:00
Designer Oscar Mariné and furniture designers GrupoKettal, have been awarded the 2010 Spanish national design prize conceded by the Spanish Science and Innovation State Department for most outstanding professional and most outstanding business respectively.
Art directioand graphic design for C International Photo Magazine, OMB, 2005-2010.
Identity for the Central de diseño...
Cuatro Cuatros, Ham&Cheese & La otra Cristina Serrano, Nude revelations
Gloria Inglis
29.11.2010 | 13:18
Three industrial design studios Cuatro Cuatros, Ham&Cheese and La otra Cristina Serrano, have recently been awarded the Nude Bancaja scholarship in an attempt to aid young designers to integrate into the world of habitat industrial design through training courses developed by Luzifer, Sancal and Aznar textile-Bondrap, respectively.
These scholarships are promoted by Obra Social...
Armadillo, a lamp designed by Luis Eslava for Luzifer
Redacción
29.11.2010 | 12:38
Luzifer introduces Armadillo, a new suspended lamp designed by the Luis Eslava Studio. The lamp shade is made from wafer thin superimposed wooden plates that diffuse the light beams to produce a warm and surprising effect full of transparencies and shades.
Detail of lamp shade.
The diffuser is irregular in shape and is available in two different sizes and ten colour finishes....
Alex Trochut, between illustration and typography
Gloria Inglis
25.11.2010 | 14:21
Barcelona based designer Alex Trochut works under the premise ‘More is more’; clearly distancing himself from minimalism; his conscious ‘horror vacui’ coexists with self control and effectiveness to produce graphic material that is exuberant in detail.
The use of a contemporary and well worked out lettering is characteristic of his work. Illustrations...
Dsignes, free typography for Signes designed by Andreu Balius
Editorial team
25.11.2010 | 14:02
Typographer Andreu Balius has created Dsignes, a free access font specifically designed for architects and designers, for Barcelona based company Signes, a business dedicated to the production and establishment of corporate identity.
Specially designed for sign projects, Dsignes offers three different weights –light, regular and bold– and can be freely obtained on...
Ximo Roca, an enquiring and rigorous eye, by Quim Larrea
Quim Larrea
20.11.2010 | 15:25
I find it very hard to write about Ximo Roca despite the fact that everybody knows him to be a splendid designer with many projects, awards and an unblemished and financially successful professional career under his belt.
The problem for me is that I know a different Ximo, over and above his public image as a designer. When I think about him, what comes to mind are memories of a...
Learning design, the school that changes
Paolo Deganello
18.11.2010 | 12:17
Design careers, in all their specialities, are currently in vogue among young people; this is why design schools are seeing hundreds of students graduate each year. The people in charge of their training, teachers with long experience in the professional world of design, believe in a dynamic and multidisciplinary education that turns the classroom into an idea lab. Motivating, backing and...
