Manual verde. Casas más sustentables gastando menos can be translated as “Green Handbook. Spend less on more sustainable homes”. This book was edited by Tomás Errázuriz, designed by Sergio Ramírez, illustrated by Javiera Infante, and published by Ediciones Cosas Maravillosas.

The publisher comments on the book (translated from Spanish):

El Manual Verde aims to be a practical guide to reduce consumption and prolong the life of things in our homes, collecting experiences and actions aimed at a general public. Most of the proposed actions consist of small changes that do not depend on the economy of each household and are not always appreciated for their contribution to the conservation of resources.

Typesetting was made mixing two sans typefaces for display uses: Lira Sans Wide and Rift (an all caps Narrow family), plus the serif typeface Skolar for texts. An important aspect of the layout is the use of the Persona pictograms throughout the book.

La nueva constitución de Chile con peras y manzanas (“Chile's New Constitution with Apples and Pears”) is a pocket-sized book designed to explain, through simple infographics, the key concepts of the proposed new constitution for Chile, developed during 2020-2021.

The book was designed and produced by the Chilean design studio Otros Pérez, and printed by Lom in one blue ink. The typesetting uses only a few styles from the Lira Sans family (Lira Sans Regular and Bold; Lira Sans Wide Regular). Along with the text layout, a wide system of pictograms called Persona, a WIP project designed by Sergio Ramírez, is used extensively.

Cosas que se pueden hacer en este mundo (“Things that can be done in this world”) is a handmade publication in which we use the pictograms of the Vivaceta family to illustrate different scenes about work, crafts and the diversity of human occupations. Vivaceta is a set of pictograms and symbols depicting different human activities. It has been planned to be in constant expansion: each font contains 70 icons.

On each page, the illustration is in dialog with a single line sentence, which can be understood in multiple ways. It is a simple booklet that uses a clear language to invite us to play and think about the things we do.

So far we have published three volumes, each using one of the Vivaceta variants, and typeset in Lira Sans Normal and Wide. The three volumes were written, drawn and designed by Javier Quintana G. and Sergio Ramírez F. Risograph printed, bound and published with Ojoporojo.

“Cooking a casserole for the whole community”

“Contemplating the immensity of outer space”

“Handling a puppet to tell a story” (Yes!, is WAD)

La constitución en debate. Un texto pensado para profesores, estudiantes y organizaciones sociales (The Constitution under debate. A text conceived for teachers, students and social organizations) is a pedagogical book about the need of a new Chilean constituent process that has to change the current national Constitution, drafted during the civil-military dictatorship. From the back cover (translated from Spanish):

Is our Constitution of any use to us? To answer that and other questions, we necessarily have to know what a Constitution is and how it regulates our coexistence. The purpose of the book is to democratise knowledge about the Constitution, to know why and for what it exists, the institutions that emanate from it, and its application in our daily lives.

Shown here is the first edition. In 2020 publisher LOM Ediciones released a second edition.

The book was designed using two sans serif families, both published by Quintana-Font: Lira Sans, in its Wide and Extended versions for headlines, and Modérnica in several weights and styles for different kinds of text. The cover shows a pictogram composition from Vivaceta type family (along with other pictos especially designed for the book) also published by Quintana-Font and designed by Sergio Ramírez.