A while ago, an individual who keeps up with developments in graphic design in our country sent a message to the board members of the ADG-FAD. The e-mail included a link to a webpage that offered anyone the possibility of developing a graphic image by...
Human beings make decisions based on first impressions. And when we realise that those impressions were inaccurate, it is very hard for us to extricate these preconceived notions from our minds. One of these misconceptions is that the cardboard industry is not environmentally friendly. Today's society...
Just take for instance the TS502 radio made by Brionvega, anno 1964. Now take a good look at it, after almost 45 years. I’m certain, you are smiling. It is charming. It is beautiful. It is an icon of modernity. You are asking yourself, how...
Close your eyes and think of a Sunday twenty or thirty years ago… Perhaps you did not use to have roast chicken, but if you walked around Valencia you could feel the air of the city was permeated by that smell. There used to be stands...
Foro Alfa ha destacado la publicación de Articulado, un libro de recetas para superar la crisis con diseño. La última propuesta editorial de Sanserif Creatius reune ideas y reflexiones de Karim Rashid, Milton Glaser, Michael Bierut, Alberto Corazón, Erwan Bouroullec, Enric Jardí o Alberto Lievore, sobre...
Today, industrial designers approach their work from a different perspective. A poetic design of products has evolved based on a plethora of complex criteria -- human experience; social, global, economic and political issues; physical and mental interaction, form, vision, and a rigorous understanding of contemporary...
Can you picture an op-ed column without words? Or a piece of political news in cartoon form? Could one report on a bank stockholder meeting using only a Q&A format supplemented with a fact sheet on the side with ratings, resembling movie recommendations? If you are...
There is an inextricable bond between how I understand architecture and design. Similarly to architecture, in design my goal is to free space from an overload of signs. Whether big or small, I want all my projects to be a synthesis of aesthetic harmony, of...
Las opiniones y reflexiones de algunos de los principales referentes del diseño internacional y firmas vinculadas a la profesión se distribuirán en el primer Congreso Internacional de Diseño e Innovación de Cataluña (CIDIC) en un libro-objeto ecológico, según ha avanzado hoy el director de comunicación...
Although it is generally believed that this sentence was pronounced by the gladiators before the circus show begun, in reality we only have records of its usage during the celebration of the naumachia (naval combat) in honour of emperor Claudius. And it was not even...
