The team of graphic designers Lo Siento, comprising Borja Martínez and Gerard Miró, is taking part in the series of exhibitions 'La Cova. About Technique', with the show 'Disseny a foc lent' (Design on a simmering heat), in which they consider their own particular vision of technique. The show can be visited at the Girona branch office from 4 December 2015 to 14 February 2016.
Graphic design is, traditionally, a visual communication tool. We are accustomed to perceiving graphic information using our sense of sight. Returning to traditional techniques prior to the digital age, using the third dimension and a physical approach to graphic solutions, has enabled us to perceive graphic design using other senses, redefining the relationship between graphic design and the material. Graphics that you can see, touch, drink or eat.
The exhibition series 'La Cova. About Technique', managed by the Girona branch's Department of Culture since October 2014, aims to reveal alternative ways of imagining, planning, composing, assembling, mixing, constructing, executing and post-producing a project.
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With the collaboration of Moritz and Epson.
LO SIENTO
Borja Martínez graduated as a graphic designer from the London College of Communication. Sole founder of Lo Siento in 2005, he is part of the general assembly of FAD (Fostering Arts and Design) and currently gives classes at the IDEP design school.
Gerard Miró graduated as a graphic designer from the EINA University School of Design and Art in Barcelona, currently gives classes at the IDEP design school and participates in the master’s degree course on Branding and Packaging at the BAU School of Design. The two form part of the Lo Siento studio, specializing in corporate identity and packaging and known for bringing a physical and hand-crafted approach to graphic solutions. They develop graphic and art direction projects for clients as diverse as El Bulli (catering), Roca (sanitary ware), Easyled (lighting), Pinkertones (electronic music), Sandro Desii (food packaging), Triticum (food packaging), DHUB (design museum), IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), O, The Oprah Magazine (communication), OFF Fest (design festival), NOMO Group (catering), "la Caixa" (exhibition) and Audi (automotive).
The studio has been recognised with a number of Laus and Grand Laus Awards since 2010 in the categories of packaging, lettering, identity and naming. Currently the studio comprises a team of six professionals and takes part in a number of festivals around the world (Spain, USA, England, Italy, Mexico, Brazil…), giving workshops and lectures.
The exhibition of the 9th ALEJANDRO DE LA SOTA BIENNIAL, which was available to visit at the COAC’s Tarragona branch office up to mid-August 2015, is beginning a tour of various towns and cities of the El Camp de Tarragona region.
From 15 September until 15 November 2015, the exhibition will be at the Escola d’Art i Disseny de la Diputació, in Reus.
From 16 November 2015 until 12 January 2016, it will move to the lobby of the Reus School of Architecture (Rovira i Virgili University, Reus).
From 15 January to 26 February 2016 it will be seen at Falset Castle (Pl. de la Quartera, 1, Falset).
From 3 March to 1 April it will move to the Pati de Sant Roc de l'Institut d'Estudis Vallencs (Jaume Huguet Street, 1, Valls).
The exhibition features samples of the projects submitted for this contest and aims to highlight the most significant work constructed during the two-year period 2013-2014 throughout a region that includes the counties of L'Alt Camp, El Baix Camp, El Baix Penedès, La Conca de Barberà, El Priorat and El Tarragonès.
This year, of the 44 projects submitted for the contest, the jury decided to select 21, of which 12 have gone to the next stage as finalists. Finally, the jury decided to declare 5 winning projects, with one of them being presented with the Alejandro de la Sota Award.
This exhibition, conceived as an open system with the ability to adjust to a variety of sizes and adapt to different spaces, shows six audiovisual presentations corresponding to each of the Biennial’s categories.
Take a look at the winning projects.
You can see the exhibition videos here.
In 1991, a photographers' association in Reus published a collection of 10 photographs of Mr Manuel Cuadrada i Gisbert (1896-1957) as a tribute to this pioneer of the art of photography, who opened up possibilities at a time when practising the art of light was, quite simply, an adventure.
These images, taken between 1924 and 1949, show different perspectives of the Monastery of Poblet and provide a historical testimony and record of the interventions carried out on the building during the following years. They are graphic documents from the COAC’s Documentation Centre that this exhibition will bring to light and which can be seen from 16 October 2015 to 4 March 2016 at the Barhaus Room.
The show is completed by the plans designed by the architect Francesc Monravà Soler for restoring the monastery.
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