Pilar's blog

The perfect is the enemy of the good

2011-02-05T16:41:00.005+01:00

Some more screen-printing practicing. This time for a Christmas card I did for friends and family.
"The better is the enemy of the good", La Bégueule, Voltaire, 1772.

————————> Making Off:

Ki/Ko Identity

2010-11-19T14:34:00.007+01:00

Ki/Ko is a small atelier based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is dedicated on the tailoring, colour-manipulation, folding, design of textile garments and accesories. With multiple uses and functions that deliver "hi-class" and unique fashion items.

Wrapping paper ——————>

Details of the screen printing ——————>

Rouge Identity Redesign

2010-11-19T13:38:00.006+01:00

While doing the CD compilation I try to redesign the logo of the bar.

Colección de Emociones

2010-11-18T19:03:00.007+01:00

Design for a new CD compilation of ambient/electronic music called, "Colección de emociones" for Rouge Bar (very nice place here in Barcelona). More about the music here.
For the moment I'm on a course of silk-screen printing so the CDs are printed with the technique. More about silk-screen here.

Some details ————————>

Hand made screen printing CD ————————>

One more year

2010-10-26T19:51:00.013+02:00

Acto Inaugural
Pamphlet with the scheduling of the day

Building Type Poster
Poster for the exhibition of a workshop called "Building Type" where the students had to build a word in 3D.

Folletos 2010 Elisava
Editorial project, catalogs of the Elisava courses. Three brochures; one corporate, one for the university studies and another for the postgraduate degrees.

La Boda dels Petits Burguesos
Image development for the work of Elisava Theater Group.
Poster, invitations and program.

Marian Bantjes
Conference Poster

Nice to meet you
Portfolio 2008. Editorial project as a compilation of work done during my Masters studies in graphic design.

On Mr. Milá's Bench
Publication design for the exhibition "On Mr. Mila's Bench" held in Elisava. The publication consists of two parts, one with the students' projects as an unfolded poster and the other with the work of Mila.

Nadala
Christmas greeting card

Disseny Avançat Catalog
Publication for exhibition "Interactive Environments."

Col·laborem
Small publication for Elisava and Companies

All the pictures of this post are by: Las Coleccionistas

another PaperMind collaboration

2010-03-27T18:31:00.007+01:00

PaperMind n.16 (March 2010)
Topic: appearance
Collaboration with "PaperMind, the After 8 Fanzine"
with Kosmas Sidiropoulos
Link

Some pictures of the presentation in Galeria VISIONS (Barcelona)

————————— the project

PaperMind Collaboration

2010-01-30T14:37:00.012+01:00

PaperMind n.11 (July 2009)
Collaboration with "PaperMind, the After 8 Fanzine"
with Kosmas Sidiropoulos
Link

Data

2008-11-06T17:30:00.004+01:00

Some visual images about the incoming of my mail inbox.

Oscar Wilde book project

2008-11-06T16:38:00.012+01:00

This is the final project I did for the Master. We had to choose a writer and design a book with three different kind of texts from the author. I choose Oscar Wilde and I took "The picture of Dorian Gray" novel, a little book of poems called "Poems" from 1981 and an introduction text from a Spanish writer.

I tried to develop a design based on the author's personality (aesthete, mystic and exhibitionist). For the cover I used a very eye-catching Japanese cloth to represent the exuberance of Wilde throughout his life.

Pictures by: Las Coleccionistas

Details:

Valencia Crea 2008 PRIZE

2008-11-06T16:29:00.005+01:00

I am very happy to announce that Mónica and me won a prize in the Valencia Crea competition with our BERLIN EXPORT project!! We won the National Prize in the Corporate Communication category.
The prize-giving ceremony took place in the Heineken Greenspace of Valencia on the 23th of October, and there was an exhibition of all the winners of the competition.
Thank you Marina for picking up our diploma!!

Short Story

2008-08-27T19:08:00.006+02:00

This was an other school work this year. Each one had to choose a short story, illustrate and design it in an A4 format. My story was "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" by Paul Aster (El cuento de navidad de Auggie Wren.)

Une Semaine à Chaumont

2008-08-27T18:28:00.004+02:00

After coming back from Chaumont we had a three days workshop at school. We had to do a fanzine with a free theme using only our hands and a photocopier. María, Mónica and me thought about doing something about our week at the Festival of Chaumont and came up with a "fanzine to remember" what we did during the festival.

Berlin Export in Select G Book

2008-06-12T23:24:00.002+02:00

Berlin Export project has been selected for the book Select G!! It is a book about the best Spanish Graphic Design and we participate as students in the Schools Category.
For more information: www.indexbook.es/select

Festival of Chaumont — Workshops Exhibition

2008-05-26T11:01:00.003+02:00

So, this is the poster I did and some pictures from the workshop poster exhibition at the "Subsistances"

Festival of Chaumont — Workshops

2008-05-26T10:39:00.005+02:00

Theme: “We, men and women”

Seven Workshops, along the topic “We, men and women” hosted 105 students from around the world, and were led by Majid Abbasi (Iran–Director of the Tehran Poster Biennale), Anschlaege (Germany), Nicholas Blechman (USA), Doppelpunkt (Germany), Kiko Farkas (Brazil), Igor Gurovich (Russia) and Juliette Weisbuch (France).
We were waiting for the workshops and here we are, back in Spain after an incredible week in Chaumont… After the "3 working poster days" we had some free time to hang out in the town and see all the exhibitions at the festival.

Here are some pictures about the process of the poster.

Expo

2008-03-30T15:09:00.005+02:00

This is a little exhibition in a cabinet display at school.
They chose our project to show it!!

Type Experiment

2008-03-24T18:22:00.003+01:00

This is the first type I have ever done… well, it's not exactly a font because it isn't useful but I wanted to do something like a "ribbon font".

Berlin Export Presentation

2008-03-14T13:45:00.004+01:00

Some pictures of the presentation at Elisava a few weeks ago.

Project — BERLIN EXPORT

2008-03-07T21:23:00.017+01:00

When we started the classes in October the aim was to develop a project. We had 4 months to do it and a key word as well. It was "hybrid city". We were pairs and each one of us chose a city that she lived in.

I started working with Mónica (my co-worker) in a project about Valencia and Berlin, and we came up with the idea of making an event/exhibition in Valencia about Berlin. So, we thought in a concept to develop all the visual communication for the event and we realized that the exportation fitted perfectly with the idea of move a city to an other city.

Here are some examples of what we show two weeks ago in the final presentation and some images of the process.

Linoleum

2008-03-07T21:05:00.005+01:00

This is also a class work.
Every week we had to analyze the visual system of a project and then, make our own interpretation of the system. I analyzed a system focused in the production. The project was done in woodcut and I choose the linoleum to do my print tests.

Crisis

2008-03-07T20:50:00.007+01:00

This was one of the first little works I did for class. There was a TOPIC (it was crisis) and we had to do something to describe it. There was an other rule, we had to do 2 versions; one with typography and the other one with images.

I tried to show a very critical moment of "crisis" of the history.

"back to work"

2008-03-07T20:45:00.003+01:00

Now is probably a year an a half since the last post but I'll try to start this blog thing again and upload some works and projects that I'm doing in for class.

I hope it works!

Badges

2006-10-09T18:42:00.009+02:00

Hi, hi!
Before give or sell all the badges that I did, thanks to a teacher at school, I wanted to show you some of them. The topic was "chaos" and the way of made it, the badges...

Mini-Book

2006-09-15T22:39:00.003+02:00

Just printed...

...summer

2006-09-02T14:22:00.003+02:00

It's been a long summer without any post but I've been lazy or away to do it...

This is the last project that I did at University... now it's over, I mean the university, not the project, he he... This is all about MetroValencia. I tried to create kind of new pictograms, kind of new image for the Valencia's Metro.
Here it's a few of them and also, the "funny" part of the project, the "noSignals". What can it happen if any of these signs would be at the underground??, that was my question in the beginning of the work.

Photo Project

2006-06-10T16:30:00.002+02:00

Besides my graphic subjects I also have Photography and, last week, I had the deliver of my project and next monday I'll have the presentation...
These are some of the photos of the project. It's about the traditional jobs of my village and how they are desappearing. All the photos are analog and developped in a matt fibre paper.

Where Art You? EXHIBITION

2006-06-03T22:40:00.002+02:00

I know, the name is an "easy name", but it's the name of the exhibition... We (the students) didn't decide it, it was the designer (teacher)...
The last part of the seminar was an exhibition. It was in the gallety of my school and the aim was to show what we did during the classes and the application on a 75x75cm Display of our brand, stamp or whatever we did. Besides the displays, there were our personal cards hanging in a clothe line at the room and, a vidio projection with pictures, photos and some cards... We were 16 people taking part of it.

The first picture is the flyer and the others are from the gallery.

more class excercices

2006-05-04T11:29:00.003+02:00

Hola Hola
After finished the Magazines' covers and made some other things, we got an article about an abstract painter, which talks about Rothko, music, swing, the abstract art and, of course, about this painter, Oliver Johnson. I had to lay out the text and use it for my magazine.

Seminar

2006-03-30T23:05:00.002+02:00

Hi Hi!! It's been a long time since the last post, and I don't feel proud of myself... it means that I've been quite lazy and I haven't done anything interesting.
Anyway I just finished a Seminar with an important graphic designer here in Valencia, and I have a kind of "logo" of myself.
This is the result of a month of seminar...

some class exercices

2006-02-27T21:44:00.005+01:00

hallo!!
these are the magazine covers I did for a class exercice. We had to do the cover for our invented magazine… The topic was to create a type, design or visual communication magazine. I invented the name and designed the logo and the style of the issue.
These are result...

This is...

2006-02-09T00:07:00.003+01:00

…after a few weeks and nothing finished I have the Hairs' project done!
It's printed and maybe there is a kind of festival where I'm going to show it but we'll see...
As you can see, the images have changed a lot. I found a new way to spread the hairs over the scan and I think it's more interesting…

photopost

2006-01-12T16:52:00.002+01:00

My 'hair's project' is still not finished but I wanted to post some photos that I took in Prague the last year. These pictures are from some cars that I saw every day in my way back home from the tram stop.

What am I doing now??

2005-12-16T17:39:00.002+01:00

Right now I'm working with the scan... I know, it sounds like something weird but I have to use it for one of my class. The aim is to find interesting images and work with them but always thinking about "the scan's view"...
I started to practice with organic materials when I found out all the possibilities of the hair!!. It's great and in the picture, it doesn't look disgusting.

Hello!!

2005-12-05T21:05:00.001+01:00

So, this is my blog... I really don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I'll think about it...
I'm going to wait until have something good to show.
Cheers