The book gathers a selection of the illustrations that I have carried out for press, especially for the Nativa magazine. They are the result of an austere way of illustrating, fast and very conceptual. These illustrations require to be readed like a sentence of text. They are not decorative, they pursue a concept, an idea or an irony. Often they create a parallel discourse to the article or column they accompanied highlighting as well as opening the meaning.

“A treasure for my library” (joanjook.com)
“Magnificent book. Acid and strong” (Álvaro Sobrino)
“Very lucid” (Oscar Guayabero)
“Modest, intentional, sometimes fun illustrations...” (Xènia Viladàs)

Press
You'll find the texts of the whole book in the Translations menu above.
You can also download these images in high resolution clicking on them.

Extra comments
Beside the captions of some illustrations, you will find in this website an extra comment –not published in the book– explaining the genesis of the illustration. If you want to know more about another one, ask me.
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Ask for a public presentation
My aim is to run some public presentations of the book. It could be on public venues, cultural centres, universities or design schools, art schools, bookshops... It could be a simple book presentation or a more ellaborate one with a lecture on several aspects of graphic design and some subjects related with the book and, at the end, the book itself. It could be held in catalan, spanish, french or english. Please contact me.

Why horizontal?
For nothing special. The book is vertical. It came to me the opportunity to publish an advertisement of the book in the Nativa magazine. As the format of the ad was horizontal, I turned the book to that same direction and it seemed OK to me. On the web pages, it also looks better if it appears horizontal. It's because all that and also to annoy a little.

Why black and red?
Yes, I know it. There is red color only on the jacket. Why is the book called like this? It's just an irony towards some books published by graphic designers. In these books we could find a nostalgical and orthodox aesthetics of the origin of the modern graphic design —at the thirties of the 20th century— where the new radical languages were expressed mainly with black and red inks. That's why it's also called 'Another' because it's like many others. But, also ironically, it could be said that the works of these recent years gathered in the book have been made hardly with ink and blood.