Estudio Mariscal. Mediterranean design
“Calle Pellaires”, I instruct the taxi driver who picks me up at the airport.
“To Mariscal’s place?” he asks.
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Testa, Nanimarquina dresses walls and dreams
Persistent spaces, the city and its physiognomy
As founding member of the BAAS architecture studio, Jordi Badia presents ‘Persistents (Persistent empty spaces)’, an exhibition that highlights their most important work focusing on empty spaces, understood as eloquent silence around which architecture builds our different worlds.
Colour scale in an Amsterdam Office
Dutchman Hofman Dujardin's architectural practice is responsible for the interior design and chromatic project for lawyers DLA Piper’s head office in Zuidas, Amsterdam’s financial district, where 250 people work every day.
Civil or church design
Gone are the days when fancy cardboard paper and calligraphic fonts were ‘sine qua non’ standards for wedding invitations and card designs. The young Basque workshop run by María Sáez and Ander Sánchez, La caja de tipos, develops, amongst other projects, personalized contemporary proposals for traditional.
First communion card, 2010.
Cross-cultural design from China
China is a hotbed of graphic design. As computers transform the country’s vast calligraphic tradition, each point of reference strengthens its identity. Hong Kong’s westernising bent, Beijing’s traditionalist nature and Macao’s hybrid character exist side by side with the emerging personalities of Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola (Oviedo, 1961), the most international of Spanish designers, lives and works out of Milan. She cites Magistretti, Munari and Castiglioni as her maestros. Of Castiglioni she recalls his most famous lesson: “the imperative of seeking out one’s own poetics, following neither rules nor guidelines”. Author of a prolific list of products and projects, and keeping true to wise teachings, she stays spontaneous and fresh by imbuing her works with her passion for handiwork.
Isidro Ferrer: Signage in Shanghai
Cardboard is a very versatile and green friendly material, and is the centre of Isidro Ferrer’s signage proposal for the Spanish pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo; a project that symbolises the way in which a poor material can reach very rich levels of expressiveness.
François Caspar
François Caspar is driven by a creative exuberance. A designer with a vibrant eye, he uses a combination of practice, experience, functionality and communication to confront his work. For Caspar, a poster is a tool for linguistic research that has many levels of sophistication. Widely known for his defence of professional culture, his work stands out for its high-quality, its focus on the international scene, its pragmatism and its visual culture.
