
La Mercè, La Merced
“Barcelona is the wide and beautiful window, the proud balcony, from which Spaniards look out over that Mediterranean Sea. It is destined, again and always, to be the axis and crossroads of cultures, the path and the means to admirable joint participations.” I quote this statement, signed by V. Domínguez Isla, from the text of...

The press vignettes of Julián Santamaría
The vignettes created for magazines and newspapers in the 1970’s are an example of the many varied techniques of the designer Julián Santamaría. Santamaria used the forms, punctuation marks, ornamental frames and architectural symbols characteristic of dry transfer Letraset in collages, including his own photographs and illustrations to create a distinctive illustrative style with which...