Pedro García-Ramos touring
“And, nevertheless, the ensemble in the exhibition shapes a structured organic whole that rounds off answers, covering up possible fissures, consolidating the experiment and demonstrating the maturity...
View ArticleCatalogue of “Encounters” in Pamplona
In 1972, in the city of Pamplona, a number of artistic Encounters took place, which, when analysed with the perspective of the years that have passed, have taken on greater and greater importance. The...
View ArticlePla-Narbona: Letters as partitions
“A chronicle and works by the draughtsman, engraver and sculptor Pla-Narbona” – with no reference to design – is the title of a publication that runs through Pla-Narbona’s career until 1974. As the...
View ArticleSuper Veloz Type: the supercalifragilistic typeface (I)
As the final echoes of Bauhaus and the avant-garde movements were sounding, Europe witnessed the emergence of the so-called New Typography, initiated by Jan Tschichold with the publication of his 1928...
View ArticlePrieto and the Theatrical Poster
This is the third post published in “Graphic Pioneers” about different creative aspects of Manolo Prieto’s work. We previously referred to the series of covers that he designed for “Novels and Stories”...
View ArticleSummer designs
The plaquettes were small publications, generally in the form of a notebook, which Ricard Giralt Miracle (see earlier post) sent to his clients and friends as Christmas greetings or notifications of...
View ArticleThe sun that rose for all
Although the monograph El sol para todos, which the designer Alberto Corazón prepared for the disappeared Banco Urquijo, was published in 1979, its elaboration process lasted for over five years. As...
View ArticleCirici, Puig, Lavanda
«My main interest is to become aware of reality. And I care about the study of art because it is a privileged way for doing so. ” This quote by Alexandre Cirici Pellicer (1914-1984) situates very well...
View ArticleExhibitions in Darro
In 1958, Francisco Muñoz Cabrero and Fernando Alonso Martínez founded DARRO, a Spanish furniture company for which the architects Miguel Fisac, Javier Carvajal, Fernando Ramón Moliner, José Antonio...
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