“Te falta salsa!!!” is an intimate journey to the heart of salsa music, told through WhatsApp conversations between a father and his son. Through debates, songs and fragments of lyrics, the book reveals the deep connection between them, where music…
Category: Fio de Cera (2025)
En la ventana
“En la ventana” is an illustrated book that invites the reader to observe the world from inside, through the eyes of someone looking out of the window.
Yellow scale
Yellow scale is a publication based on the brief to create a large-format (A3) publication made up exclusively of operational images — images whose purpose is not aesthetic or symbolic representation but the performance of a practical function.
Our own world
In the Contexts and Practices of Illustration curricular unit, we were asked to start from the choice of two contrasting elements: one of erudite origin and the other of popular origin.
Peaceful solitude – Illustrative depictions of the introverted mind
Peaceful Solitude: Illustrative Depictions of the Introverted Mind explores Drawing and Illustration as instruments of visual translation within Art and Graphic Design. Through two-dimensional simplicity, these techniques make abstract and subjective concepts tangible, such as emotions and thoughts and, in…
Embodied
Embodied stems from the premise of creating a publication made up solely of operational images, [almost] without using any text. As a starting point for building a narrative, the project draws on Vogue magazine’s digital series In The Bag.
Nom[br]e
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This document explores how the terms we use today to describe the various components of a book developed. Understanding the origins of these terms and the parts that make up a book is essential for educational purposes, as it allows…
The amulet, the talisman, the charm
This editorial project arose in the Project curricular unit, within a collaborative dynamic that simulates the relationship between client and designer: one group develops the concept and the initial content, while the other develops it and turns it into a…
Pictograms as universal communication tools in drug administration: A graphic design project to improve health literacy
This project proposes a modular system of pictograms to improve health literacy in medicine administration. Misinterpretation of instructions causes severe health risks, especially among vulnerable groups such as illiterate people, the elderly, and individuals with cognitive difficulties.