toki

This Saturday we met José Saccone, Daniel Mochi and Nicolás Sarsotti from Toki, their collective which was created during 2001 with the aim of drawing without precise purpose, but focusing on the satisfaction and passion of its members.

It is not possible to talk about a certain Toki style as the group uses various technics in craft work and digital art. All the three of them work as Graphic Designers teaching Typography at the UBA.

The »Postales Toki« are a selection of a wide range of illustrations that reflect the group´s soul with its different ideas, technics and expressions.

»Toki y sus amigos« is a collection of illustrations made by the Toki members and some friends without using any digital help.

zona de obras

Wednesday evening we spent at the Zona de Obras studio which is headed by Designer and UBA Professor Marcelo Gabriele. The studio mainly works on Editorial Design and Artworks for Argentinian musicians. Before the studio even existed, they published a magazine called »Zona de Obras« that treated topics like Cultural events, music, comics, design and more.

Some examples for the Artworks and Editorial Design that were done by Zona de Obras.

kid gaucho

We started the fourth interview week in Buenos Aires with Andrés Banavera (aka »Larva«) and Lucas Lasnier (aka »Parbo«) from studio Kid Gaucho. Their work is a good example for the fusion of design and streetart. Kid Gaucho are cooperating a lot with the fashion branch. In projects like designing the interior of shops they can approve their ability to combine illustration with streetart to create an inventive design.

The new store intervention for »Complot« made by Kid Gaucho.

Branding work for »Peluca Films«

studio chu

In the afternoon we had the chance to interview another Doma member: Julian Pablo Manzelli from studio Chu. His work focusses on illustration, motion graphics, toy design and streetart and is motivated and inspired by his many travels.

The place where ideas are getting realised. Sometimes with the help of friends.

Julians paintings make the city a more colourful place.

juan pablo cambariere

It was a pleasure to talk to artist and designer Juan Pablo Cambariere today. Being interviewed in his studio he gave such interesting and absorving answers to our questions. He is famous for his art works for CDs, his plenty bookcover designs and his wooden marionettes.

Several of his marionettes were displayed at the »Pictoplasma« in Berlin this year.

One of Juan Pablos bookcover works.

estudio pica

Today we met Leandro Barales and Lucas Mourelle from Estudio Pica. They are both students of design at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU) and tutors of design. In addition to that they already built up their own successful studio.

Their work concentrates on editorial design, web and multimedia.

The Art Direction of the »THC« magazine is one of Pica`s most important editorial projects. THC is not as it might seem an underground magazine. It is certainly renowned and publishes articles written by popular personalities like for example politicians, artists and authors.

The Paper »Aperiódico Psicoanalítico« is another editorial and typographic work by Pica.

patricio oliver

Starting into another interview week with Patricio Oliver. We met him at his place which is surrounded by an impressive collection of action and design toys. Patricio is famous for his illustrations and toy designs that are inspired by his passion for the victorian epoch and his love towards comics. This week he will present his new book »Maurice in Love« which is a cooperation between different illustrators.

Some of Patricio`s own design toys observing his work.

negro

This afternoon we met Ariel di Lisio from Negro in a cafe to talk about his work and argentinian design. He mostly concentrates on Typography and Editorial. He has designed a couple of his own fonts and is the editor and designer of the two magazines »Trash Sudamerica« and »Love«.

Art work »Les Imatériaux«. Its a remix of original sound to a very major exhibition from the Centre Pompidou in October 2009.

»Marzo« – one of the several fonts created by Ariel di Lisio.

rdya

Today Ricardo Drab from RDYA took plenty of time for us and our many questions, answering them unhurriedly and elaborately. Afterwards he showed us around the studio where about twenty people use to work. Nevertheless the mood was quite nice and familiar!

Ricardo showing us some of his works: The studio works in most different areas like Motion Graphics, Editorial and Graphic Design as well as Advertising.

alejandro ros

This morning we visited Alejandro Ros, one of the most famous Argentinian Graphic Designers who is famous for his art works and cover works for magazines like »radar« or »pagina 12«.

Some of Alejandro`s art works for different popular musicians. Creating these art works is a great way for him to combine both of his passions: music and design

sifon dg

We had a nice chat with the two young designers Nicolas Ortiz and José Cambariere from Sifon DG at Nicolas house where they also use to play some music to distract themselves from too much design work.

This art work shows their characteristic illustration style which is inspired and influenced by surrealism.

imagen hb

We spent the afternoon at the nobrand shop in Palermo sharing some mate tea with Hernán Berdichevsky and Gustavo Ariel Stecher from ImagenHB. By turning old fashioned Argentinian clichés into modern icons the two designers created Argentinas new identity within their book »idarg« and thereby resulting brand named »nobrand«.

Besides their project they work on Corporate Design, Branding, Web Design, Mutlimedia, Publishing and Environmental Design.

parquerama

Interview with Matias Vigliano, founder member of the Doma Collective and free graphic designer with his own studio Parquerama. Being influenced by his early work as a street artist with Doma, he creates graphic universes, products, motion graphics and unique art pieces.
»Sentry Robot« vinyl doll

colorblok inc.

Talking to »creative machine« Juliana Pedemonte who has the gift to give life to imaginative and playful characters. In her own studio Colorblok she works on Illustration, Motion Graphics and Art Direction.»Mono« vinyl doll

EXPEDITIONS BESIDES

Tonight we visited the PechaKuga Night at the cultural centre Konex.

PechaKuga Night was devised in Tokyo in 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of »chit chat«, it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It`s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. It was definitely a varied evening that presented interesting ideas from design to nanotechnology, photography, melonga, make up, music production and more. Tuesday, 27th of October

Another sunny Sunday Afternoon in and above Buenos Aires...

Sunday, 25th of October

Carrying our stuff up to Nadine`s sunny terrace for an afternoon breakfast.

On Friday we were invited to the premiere of the new stop motion film teclopolis developed by Javier Mrad and his team from cancanclub. The short movie was an incredible work made with rejected old computer material like mouses, keyboards and disks. It told a little sad love story which was accompagnied by beautiful music. Of course the movie had to be celebrated on a party afterwards. Friday, 23th of October

Some screenshots showing the setting of the stopmotion movie.

The Bolivian culture organisations present themselves on a huge and colorful parade right in the heart of Buenos Aires on Avenida de Mayo. Saturday, 17th of October

Walking through San Telmo, one of the oldest and most beautiful districts of Buenos Aires on »día de la raza«. Monday, 12th of October

»Fileteado Porteño«, typical decorative and popular arts from Buenos Aires

The project Ser y Grafía Argentina Brasil to consists of an album of original and signed serigraphies designed by different artists, sculptors, designers, illustrators and collective studios from Buenos Aires in and Sao Paulo. We visited the opening of the exhibition at Galeria Turbo in Palermo, Buenos Aires. Friday, 9th of October