There’s no doubt about it: all things retro are back in fashion. So, looking back at the kind of advertising that was popular a few decades ago can help us be more contemporary. Oh, those wonderful years of Mecano, Hispano-Olivetti, Mirinda ... or those days before Warhol got his hands on the Campbell’s soup can and weren’t  even in museums. So far away, yet so near.

It’s not difficult to find vintage advertising images on the web but, for starters, we’d recommend the selection of 50 ads of the 50s and 60s made by Wellmedicated.com and enjoy the fonts, illustrations, composition ... as well as items being advertised. We found this website by using Barcelona's Chiringuito, an interesting blog where you can also find some marvelous links featuring vintage advertising from different countries.

But, to finish off, a jewel that’s worth checking out: three fake ads that adopt the style and characters of the 50's to advertise Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, no more and no less. They are the result of an anachronistic campaign "Everything Ages Fast" carried out by the MOMA Sao Paulo agency to publicize MAxMidia, a major international seminar event in the field of communication, held in Brazil and Latin America in general.

Because everything is aging rapidly and tomorrow those wonderful years will already be our present!

http://tinyurl.com/4fg8ew

A centre for design, communications and creativity in Jaca has instigated an uprising against authority, i.e. an insurgency, which in this case uses graphs as an integral part of their strategy. Their motto: "Design or die". Motto: graphic activism, agitation and propaganda through guerrilla design for the 21st century. They know, "it doesn’t feed you, but it lifts the spirit."

They specialize in "playing the fool", in other words, producing critical design and promoting design that encourages criticism, which isn’t the same, but alike. For now, their fight has focused on the world of immigrant boats, terrorism, war, control and video surveillance, democracy, the food production chain, power... everyday facts that, being ours, demand a response.

In addition to the website, Graphic Insurgency has a blog where designers like Laurie Lipton, David Foldvari, Santiago Velazco, El niño Vudú and Iván Bravo have been discovered. They also informed us on interesting initiatives like createdemocracy.com, europebydesigners, usabydesigners, designers with Haiti or the Indexbook publication Green Graphics.

It confirms, yet again, the role of design in social critique and reflection. It thus represents a space for getting committed, a place for imagining change through design, a site for supporting rebellion, which is illustrated with intelligence, sarcasm and humour. And yes, the existence of Graphic Insurgency also lifts the spirit.

http://www.insurgenciagrafica.es/

The intimate relationship between design and the business world makes the former a tool for communicating commercial values. It’s hard to find graphic design studios that devote their work to carrying out projects based on social critique and commitment because, as reported in El País on 24/07/2008: "If a graphic designer has deep social worries, can he transmit them through his work? Obviously not, unless he wants to lose all his projects". However, that same report already singled out some names, like the Madrid studio Un mundo feliz, which had just published an anthology of activist design work, Pictopía. 

In fact, now that we’re just a few months from the end of the first decade of the 21st century, now that the world has become smaller and we (almost) all work online, now that there are still a surplus of problems that should be denounced urgently, now that we know that pretence is true and the truth pretence, now that we are finally surfing in the age of image… now more than ever one should support activist design.

The Migrants project, which came about thanks to the social phenomenon of globalization and mobility, is a clear example of how design can be an agent of social change. Its pictograms articulate and show us the experiences of immigrant women in cities, through images created from drawings produced by the migrants themselves in a workshop. When these pictograms become part of an urban action and occupy the space normally occupied by advertisements, the force of the message is duplicated. They’ve already done this in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Seville, Buenos Aires… and the result has always been highly effective. 

But there are other examples, and what we’d like to do here is to use this post as a point of diffusion, not just to confirm that it’s possible to change the world a little through design, but that it’s possible to do committed activist design.  It’s your turn.

http://www.migrantas.org/

The Big Picture is a picture gallery linked to the online version of American newspaper The Boston Globe. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, its publisher, Alan Taylor, posts the most spectacular photos that have been published by different agencies, organizing them in terms of theme. That’s how this photo-blog has become one of the most comprehensive in photojournalism, with the images occupying centre stage. 

Inspired by Life Magazine, National Geographic, MSNBC.com and MediaStor.org, this gallery publishes some top quality shots of current events, less well-known stories and, all in all, some really attention-grabbing moments. Each shot is an impressive visual record of the times we live in.

Special mention goes to The Big Caption, which complements The Big Picture, where these photos are reinterpreted by adding texts full of humour and irony. The initial formality becomes a kind of poster or postcard featuring a headline where the letter type plays a major role. Because The Big Caption wants to grab our attention through its irreverence. And it very often does.

http://thebigcaption.com

If you’ve got an appointment and don’t want to arrive late, if you have to deliver some work in a little while or you’ve just been called to remind you that in an hour you’re expected at the dentist, don’t click the link that takes you to Animade TV.

It could be the loss of you, and to be honest, we don’t want to be held responsible for your friends getting annoyed, losing a client and, what’s more, your wisdom tooth starting to ache tomorrow. Because, be warned, on Animade TV you’re going to spend quite a while watching and enjoying the selection of animation-related videos.

On this online TV channel, the materials arrive from all over the world and every animation has its own style. You can watch commercials, videos, visuals, movies and even videos that, although they’re not top quality, still show how, at times, even in the rain words are written and fish are drawn. And, best of all, you can share files and, moreover, let Tom Judd and the other administrators know what you’ve found on the web that you found interesting, or perhaps your own work.

Summing up, Animade TV is one of those blogs where you can get lost, while finding out just how impressed you can really be.

http://www.animade.tv/

Arròs covat and Freaklance are two innovative, biting and raucous animation series that portray the lives of Xavi Masdéu and Maximiliano Martin Panucci (Maxi), two characters who’ll you’ll be able to relate to if you work in the world of design. 

Xavi, a cosmopolitan graphic designer who lives in Barcelona, in the Gràcia neighborhood to be precise, one of the coolest in the city, feels that life is passing him by now that he’s already turned 30, thus the title Arròs covat.  The series looks at the conflict involved in getting older, but above all demonstrates the minimalist style and sarcastic humour of its creator, Juanjo Sáez, the particularities of many graphic designers who, like Xavi, can go months without being paid in spite of having received a Laüs award, travel to meetings with clients which come to nothing in the end, etc, etc. The references to pop culture, independent music, festivals like Primavera Sound and parodies of well-known artists, are a feature that only promotes our empathy with Xavi and guarantees laughter.
 
While Arròs covat is preparing its second season, Freaklance only has 4 chapters on line so far, though the response of internet users has been very positive. The rhythm is slower, but the resources their creators, July Grama and Alex Hillock, can count on have nothing to do with the support of Escándalo Films and TV3. The series is aimed at all freaklances, i.e. at all those who’ve been freelance workers at a company for years, have sold their photos to the best bidder, are independent video producers, work for themselves in advertising or, like Maxi, are freelance web designer. 

If you’re a designer or programmer, you’ll know that surfing the web for hours is "researching trends" and never wasting time; and perhaps you’ll have heard of Darío Díez Domínguez, 3D, the only person who reads the terms of the entire contract when he installs a license.  Or, because you’ll agree with Maxi when he sings "Without design, a project will deprive its owner of happiness ", perhaps it’s a good idea to check out the chapters of the two series now and visit the Facebook profiles of Xavi Masdéu (12,244 admirers) and Maxi (2,885).

If you know of other series on designers in other languages, please let us know. Because sharing our grief and adventures with a group and laughing at them is therapeutic.

http://www.arroscovat.com

Obviously that a search engine should help us find things and, if it also allows us to do so in a simple, fast, and precise way, all the better. That’s what makes Iconfinder such a good search engine, one that deserves the attention of designers, web programmers and, generally speaking, anyone who, at one time or another, has needed to use icons.

Iconfinder, as it happens, is an icon gallery that allows us to carry out searches using keywords and packages that are related by theme or by style. It has other important qualities, however: you can modify the search criteria according to the background colour of the icon or the size of the pixels.  Also, and this is vital, each icon has a license information button that says under which terms you can use it. 

Iconfinder also has a blog and a form that provides the opportunity of downloading new icons, given that it’s a gallery that can already boast exactly 152,863 icons today, but which tomorrow will surely have more.

http://www.iconfinder.net

Differentiating between what’s strictly design and digital art isn’t always an easy task and, in fact, it may not be necessary to establish this kind of dichotomy. We say this because the content of this very post could well be included in the arts section, but if we present Depthcore here it’s because we consider it a useful site for designers to find inspiration, a place where they can discover top quality talents.

In 2002, Justin M. Miller, Kevin J. Stacey and Brian D. Smith founded this artistic collective whose objective is "to illustrate, orchestrate and visually represent the thoughts, hopes and dreams of every corner of the planet". Yes, in effect, it may sound highly pretentious and, although it doesn’t justify all the excess, they are backed up by the excellent quality of their ideas, based on the link between art and innovation in breaking convention and the repetition of patrons in the world of design.

Depthcore compiles photography, animation, audio and design projects, presented in "chapters" or theme exhibitions that, every 3 or 4 months, show between 50 and 150 works, which have been subjected to a strict and rigorous selection process. Each chapter also features an interview with the creator that the 3 heads of the collective consider to have produced the best work.

They are already on chapter 38, this time dedicated to Freestyle, although there are other issues with themes like femininity ("Her") or issues as provocative as "A trip to elsewhere". And in each and every one, there are works that deserve some analysis and, yes, also our deep and sincere admiration. Perhaps that’s where they came up with ‘Depthcore’.

http://www.depthcore.com

A new year begins and with it a renewed desire to create, do more projects and learn, so with this in mind, at the outset of 2010 we’d like to introduce TUTS to those who don’t know it and remind those of you who are already familiar with it.

TUTS is a website with tutorials and resources gathered from different blogs - so far, seven in all, each one focussing on a special area:

PhotoShop and graphics (PSDTuts )

Design and web development with HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMSs, PHP, Ruby and Rails (NetTuts )

Vectors and illustration, focussed above all on Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape (VectorTuts )

Music and sound, to find recording and production techniques, etc.  (AudioTuts )

Flash Tutorial with Flash, ActionScript and Flex (AeTuts )

3D and computer Graphics, with May, 3Ds, Max, Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Blender, Mudbox, etc.  (CgTuts )

Photography (PhotoTuts )

The starting point and leitmotiv for Tuts goes as follows: "If you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best". That’s why the web also features interviews with the outstanding professionals from each sector. What’s more, a permanent assembly is open making it possible to send a tutorial that could become part of the web, only after an appraisal to decide if it meets the Tuts + quality demands. 

Each specific page/blog has tutorials, articles, gifts and videos. Most of the information is free, although you can also become a Plus Program member, thus being eligible for more exclusive information. 

For now, we recommend bookmarking Tuts+ as one of your favorite pages and, as usual, keep on learning from it in 2010.

http://tutsplus.com

Architecture and town planning are the language used to project, organize and shape a city’s public space and it’s relationship with its inhabitants. Linda McDowell puts it better in her essay Gender, identity and Place, "spaces emerge from power relations, power relations establish norms; and norms define limits, which are both social and spatial, because they determine who belongs in a place and who is excluded" (McDowell, 2000: 15).  That is to say, space is directly linked to power (of whatever type); also the virtual space of the web. 

And to illustrate this, each year Japanese studio Information Arquitects publishes a map of trends on the web, which is already in its fourth edition: The Web Trend Map. A conceptual and highly visual map, it’s inspired by the metro grid of a huge city like Tokyo and relates the space of a city to that of the web, taking in the most influential sites and the most prominent people in the virtual world. The position of each domain varies according to three variables: height, or success as measured by traffic; width, which indicates the domain’s stability; and position, which underlines the group to which the domain belongs.

The result is a graph that, besides showing strange and enticing relationships between domains, features a design quality that also sets trends.

http://informationarchitects.jp/wtm4/

I don’t know if you’ve ever had the experience of working together with a company from another city, but the fact is that it’s not always easy to maintain good communication with the client. Time is wasted redoing things that have already been done, writing e-mails to discuss ideas, reading instructions, sometimes very abstract ones, from the company, waiting for the FTP to finally upload… and planning meetings that may involve unexpected travel and cost. 

This must surely have happened to Oscar Guindzberg and Roberto Gluck, and may have led them to inventing CreationFlow. This software allows easier collaboration and administration of online projects and was conceived precisely in order to facilitate faster and more precise feedback on multimedia and graphic design projects. The aim is to ease the exchange of corrections between designers, boss and clients, so that everyone involved in the development of a project knows the tasks to be done and can carry out any corrections and suggestions made by the others, directly over the images and videos, thanks to a tool called "pencil" (easy to use and very visual).  It allows the monitoring and control of every part of the process, marking the state (pending approval, for example), priority, allocation, expected finishing date and the estimated development time for each part. 

Summing up, in order to save time, avoid interpretation mistakes and to make design work and communication flow without needing to be in the same place –not even in the same city, never mind the same office–, CreationFlow seems more than just a good option.

http://www.creationflow.com/

What Myspace is to musicians, Behance Network is to creative professionals, particularly those interested in photography, Motion Graphics, typography, industrial design and fashion. But this social network also includes advertising, architecture, animation, art direction, jewellery design, videoblogging, podcasting and blogging, amongst others categories.

The user can set up a free profile, customize it and thus show his portfolio, where projects can be stored. Profiles also include functions that allow you to contact other private users by writing messages or suggest that they enter a theme circle (random access or restricted users groups, by invitation), comment and vote on their work, make calls for collaborations or link to other pages. It’s also possible to activate a monitoring thread for a particular creator so that, if he updates his profile with new work, you’re informed (Rss system).

And, as if that weren’t enough, there’s a message board with job offers from prestigious brands, a section for exchanging tips and the assurance of Behance Network that your work will be seen by millions of visitors, thousands of Behance members and the best agencies and companies around the world. It’s surely a network to get tangled up in.

http://www.behance.net

Google Street View allows us to move around the screen and interact with static images, photographs. The technology developed by Yellowbird, however, lets us do so with video images. And so yes, really, we can see the world like never before through the screen.

What the viewer experiences is something akin to "being there", given that he can move forward in real-time, walk, vary the camera angle – just like turning your head to see what’s happening behind you, look at the sky, etc.

For this purpose, Yellowbird have designed a camera with six lenses and added surround sound to the microphone thus permitting 96 khz audio recording. And not only that, it can also record on a tripod or using the steadycam system, i.e. placed on the back of whoever is recording and moving around with him.

This technological advance is a first step in exploring video viewing and imagining a completely innovative way of making and seeing films. The same way as new technologies led to another way of conceiving literature, related to hypertext, the idea of interactive 3D video will also mean changes in the world of cinema. To start off, neither the author nor the publisher control the point of view anymore, while the character of the film isn’t exclusively lineal either. The spectator is no longer someone who receives what has already been filmed, rather he can interact with what he sees. The notion of responsibility is altered and redefined, obliging the filmmaker to design a film space that allows for different interpretations.

For now, surprise yourselves with the sample you can find on the Yellowbird website. To surf the movie, you have to place the cursor on top. It’s a party, you’ll see.

http://tinyurl.com/ceyp9e

Fortunately, there are lots of blogs out there on design, advertising, art, fashion, music and architecture. However, not all come as highly recommended as Today and Tomorrow, a blog that compiles a wide variety of tags worth noting for their quality.

Blogger Pieter, a Belgian who lives in Berlin, describes it as a collection of things that he likes for being pretty, amusing or original. And among these, we can see captivating videos like "Digit", by artist Julien Maire, the fun installation "Ketchup", by Yarisal & Kublitz, pictures of Géraldine
Georges and her collages, photographs of Sabrina Dehoff’s original designs for Nike, incredible reports on the latest in the world of programming, etc.

Besides confirming Pieter’s good taste, we suggest regular visits to his blog to find the inspiration we’re all looking for, discover the work and projects of artists and designers from different countries and, above all, enjoy the information held by each and every tag. Note it in your diary: see Today and Tomorrow web.

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net

The crossroads between the Cardo maximus and the decumanus maximus was the point where the forum of the ancient Roman city could be found. This was a strategic central enclave where meetings were held to discuss the matters of cultural interest of the time. With the apparition of Internet, the classic forum was metaphorically transformed into the discussion and opinion forums where we aim to revive the effervescence we imagine occurring in the city of Marcus Aurelius, but with the advantage that the Internet provides: the participation of anyone who wants to take part in a meeting, in other words, global. 

There are many forums, but very few like Domestika, this meeting place for creators that aims to promote design as a tool for changing society. It sets itself up as a place where the idea of a community of creators, operating in different fields is promoted, sharing resources, exploring new trends, discussing the latest and most important innovations in the area of design, art, programming and the community. Its success is defined by the over 10,000 users –both students and professionals– who assure its diversity and quality. 

A team of committed professionals are responsible for running the forum.  And if you’d like to return to the old-style meetings of the classics, you can also attend the international design event organized by MADinSpain.

http://www.domestika.org/foros

In the following, an imaginary but possible conversation between two members of the worth1000.com team is quoted, just as they start thinking about creating Aviary:
 
- Can you imagine?  It’d be like having a free set of design tools to edit images online, without needing to download the application. 

- Sure, the files should be accessible from any computer and it should let you save them safely, allowing you to make a backup DVD with your documents.

- And it’d be great to be able to manage documents collectively, opening files of other people in the community, for example, and finishing them, in a similar way to Google Apps. There would have to be lots of different tools, like a word processor, image editor, vector graphics editor, an editor for the desktop, audio, 3D modelling, etc. 

- I’d call it Aviary. What do you think? 

- Yes, like an aviary, i.e. a collection of birds which, in our case, would represent the different tools: Phoenix, raven, toucan, peacock, etc. 

- It’d work, for sure. What’s more, ‘aviar’ also means "to prepare something for the road", that is what Aviary would do for designers, right?

http://aviary.com

A pirate is a "person who, along with others of a similar disposition, dedicates his life to boarding ships at sea and stealing from them", but since what we do on the Internet is also a form of sailing, or surfing, any user who takes possession of copyrighted contents online, can also be said to be committing an act of piracy.

Collective management companies are responsible for guarding and controlling this kind of activity, imposing sanctions that can vary according the extent of the looting. What happens, however, when authors want people to have free, unlimited and easy access to their work, without automatically applying copyright protection to it? They can make use of Creative Commons licenses, including the recently launched –and controversial– CC0 (version 1.0) according to which the author "dedicates this work to the Commons waiving all his or her rights to the work under copyright law and all related legal rights, to the extent allowable by law".

That is to say, that neither the creator nor the future user will own the rights to the work, forever lost in a sea of common creative contents for the public domain. A sea where pirates and collective management companies alike, will have little to seek.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.es

By putting letters together we form words and, with these, stories can be created.  But letters have their own stories, some relating to their typography, or in other words, to their image, form and composition. 

In Letrag, these typographies are classified by style, with historic, and highly educational, explanations that may go back as far as the 8th century scribes or 19th century Great Britain. The web thus creates a world where letters and their style are the real protagonists, with tools that can satisfy many of the designers’ needs. For example, in the 'Identify' section, we discover the name of a particular style of typography by answering some questions, and in the section 'Visualize' we can see which fonts we have in our computer and learn to modify their variants. Also, in 'Blogosphere' all content related to typography that appears on the Internet is index-linked, thus creating an open and dynamic library to which if we add all the pre-existing 'articles' or those we’ve created ourselves, we have a very thorough, and learned, collection of writings on the subject. 

These are just some of the advantages of the site, but there are more. Because Letrag is, without any doubt, a space that will positively surprise different types and characters (of people).

http://es.letrag.com

Four Fs to reinforce the idea: *found*, but these four Fs are also a kind of onomatopoeia to describe the user’s reaction to this tool.
FFFFound is a web service that allows us to post and share images. An ever-growing album thanks to its users, who are mainly graphic artists, designers, photographers and publicists. The difficulty of getting into the club and its apparently elitist nature - you can only enter by invitation, and each user only has one- professionalize the kind of images found, preventing the usual photographs of animals and landscapes found on other sites.  

When you select an image, the system recommends others: "You may like these images".  And yes, it’ll probably be right, because FFFFound is not only an outstanding way of surfing the web, but also "an inspirational image – bookmaking experience".

http://ffffound.com

According to Sergio del Puerto, the name under which he’s better known pays homage to printing processes, but he doesn’t say what the point of it all is. We’ll just have to guess.  

What went through a printing process and came out of the computer is something that can now be touched and smelt. That’s what Serial Cut’s work is about: combining design programs but without turning its back on manual work, which is why each project leaves you with the sensation that you can feel it. Yes, perhaps that’s why Serial Cut goes by that name, because of the importance of the process and the fact that it’s handmade. That’s just a guess, however, one we can only imagine.

Nevertheless, the projects being carried out at their art direction, design and illustration studio in Madrid for clients like Nike, Channel 4, Neo2, El País and Microsoft, amongst others, seem to back up our hypothesis. Check them out and enjoy Serial Cut and their ability to be simply great.

http://www.serialcut.com

Personal style, a language of her own, attention to detail, simplicity of colour, excellent technical composition… are just some of the characteristics Luci Gutiérrez’ (Barcelona, 1977) work, but the list, no matter how it grows, can’t possibly describe what her illustrations manage to awake within us. It’s not that her images are worth more than a thousand words, it’s that they suggest a thousand words or more, because they have a story to tell us: in spite of their apparent rigidity, her characters move, dream, suffer, laugh… speak to us. And best of all, she achieves this complexity employing technical resources and a style that make it look simple, easy and possible.  

On her (award-winning) website holeland we can see a sample of her publishing, advertising, press, editorial and animation work, as well as some gifts, like comic strips or downloads.  

It’s hardly surprising that someone whose name means 'light' should call a website 'holeland’. But the artist herself tells us: "A hole is something that has been drawn many times and that allows visual games. Besides, holes are surprising; unexpected things can come out of them and you can find little worlds inside them". And so, finding worlds and drawing everyday things in an unexpected way (or unexpected things as routine), Luci continues to receive prizes (Junceda 2004 and 2007, Bologna Ragazzi Award 2008), collaborating with newspapers like The New York Times, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, or publications like Tos, Dos veces breve, Nosotros somos los muertos, Cretino, Fanzine Enfermo, Argh! and Garabattage, an illustration magazine of which she is co-editor.

http://www.holeland.com

Spawn is the name of a comic that was first published in May 1992 by an American publisher, but above all, and what most interests us here, it is also the tag under which the adolescent Tomás Peña began signing, although using his own, let’s say, unique variation: espaun.  

This explains the first half of the artistic name of someone who can be defined as a future promise –as the media have been assuring us since 2006. The second half, 256, concerns the maximum possible number of colours in a gif.  

And at last, we know the meaning of Espaun 256, the alter ego of a designer and Motiongraphics animator born in La Unión (Murcia, 1985).  

If we began by revealing the origin of his nickname it’s because it tells us a lot about the creative nature of Tomás Peña: it gives us an insight into his interest in suburban influences (graffiti, B-movies…) and his commitment to innovation, both on a conceptual level and regarding the variety of disciplines and techniques (comics, gifs, Stop Motion, etc.).  

But not just that. Taking the word Spawn and changing it into Espaun, is typical of the idea of "Spanglish". And Tomás Peña is a little bit similar, given that he recently arrived from Los Angeles where he worked for one of the most important post-production companies in the country (Buck), and has returned to Spain to continue to reinvent something that is always present in his work: "all things Spanish " -from flamenco to the most gypsy of influences- adapted to an innovative personal style.  

His return will have to be celebrated.

http://www.espaun256.com

Don’t believe in large-scale productions, marked by the seasons, nor in the mass-production system. Think limited editions and in what’s known as 'social care manufacturing', clothes made by people who need us to give them a hand to get back to work again, as is the case of the association for the reintegration of women in jail. They are involved in part of this work. 

Just4fun is a very simple, very functional and stylish website. It has taken full advantage of the options provided by Internet to create online shops, like Bigcartel, which offers all the necessary tools for Internet shopping, and a very safe method of payment, Paypal, where the user has his own account and can manage his purchases, payments, transfers, etc… as he sees fit. 

Their clothes are original, fun and daring and will appeal to the kind of people who know how to move in them, how to wear them, how to dance in them. And how to be photographed in them. Because nobody has worn those leggings before.  And whoever’s wearing them now, won’t want to take them off!

http://www.just4funweb.com/

At first, one is original, searches new ways of expression, transmission, connection.  By extension, one becomes creative, invents or reinvents from what already exists, always innovating. Third comes curiosity, looking all around, east, west, north, south, with wide open eyes, discovering.  Sometimes one has the opportunity of going beyond, breaking barriers, one step further than the rest. And it’s when you take that last step when you reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

That’s the road followed by Jonathan Yuen, graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist, recently awarded for his web and animation design with a Webby Award.

http://www.jonathanyuen.com

Design, art, illustrations and typography: four words, four cardinal points that explain the creative universe from which Alex Troucht takes a look into the world and delivers his works, twisting them with a mix of poetry, irony and longing for what could had been.

His is a very original look developed in a peculiar environment: his grandfather was Joan Troucht (1929-1980), the famous inventor of the typographic system Super High Typo. This heritage explains Alex capability to add or create specific entities to a text and/or letters from related images that are personalized: giving them a double meaning.

Alex Troucht has a different view that nowadays lives and looks beyond from Barcelona, he has crossed the limits for brands like Nike or Diesel, proposing them news breaks that turn into ad/miration.

http://www.alextrochut.com