Joan Pedragosa’ clocks
Pla Narbona wrote of Joan Pedragosa: “he has a geometric soul but doesn’t lack a poetic and metaphysical spirit”. This soul appeared in a particular way in a series of clocks called “Kartolinos” that Pedragosa designed in 1997. Clocks to be assembled in cardboard, searching to become small, geometric and minimalist sculptures. Pedragosa used the...
“Cua de palla”: Jordi Fornas
From the Catalan expression ‘Qui té la cua de palla s’encén’ (roughly translated as ‘he who holds the end of the straw, burns’) comes the title of the noir crime series ‘La cua de palla’ (The end of the straw) from ‘Edicions 62’, one of the most striking examples of graphic modernism from the 1960’s...
CAU magazine: Enric Satué
CAU – Construction, Architecture and urbanism – was the magazine of the official college of construction engineers and technical architects of Catalunya and the Balearic Islands. It was first published in 1970, and the initial 20 editions featured a section entitled ‘Visual Communication’ featuring design critiques written by Ferran Cartes. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, José Miguel...
‘Plaquetas’: Ricard Giralt Miracle
The ‘plaquetes’ were greetings cards created by the ‘Filograf’ studio of designer Ricard Giralt Miracle. Sent out between 1953 and 1989 at christmas, or in the summer, they represent the synthesis of Giralt Miracle’s graphic world; his most personal, and gratifying work. Employing texts by Cervantes, Dante Aligheri, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Maragall or Salvat Papasseit...