The title combines caps from MTM Cascorro 18’s Lisa and Classic styles. The latter is distinguished by spurs.

Poster-booklet for En las Fiestas del Futuro (“At the Parties of the Future”), an exhibition by Paco Graco collective about recovered shop signs at La Casa Encendida art center in Madrid, Spain.

Designed by Ricardo Barquín featuring fonts by Madrilenian Typographic Manufactures, Riccardo de Francheschi, and Alexander Colby, with texts by Miriam Martín.

The exhibition reflects on the vanished city and memories through the commercial signs rescued by the collective in the neighbourhood where the art centre is located.

As the booklet reads:

in the face of Madrid's destruction: in the fire of what was, burns what will be

The inauguration took the form of a popular party with music, wine and the owners of the closed shops coming to see their signs saved from the dump at the last minute.

Photos: Daniel de Jorge

“Madrid será” uses Vampiro. Text is set in Lacrima Italic and Serif.

Installation with vintage signs from shops and pubs

Manifesto for the event and fundraiser “Artisti per la Palestina” (Artists for Palestine) in favor of the association Amici della Mezzaluna Rossa Palestinese organized by Sorgente in collaboration with Arci Palermo and the activist Fateh Hamdan. The typography pairs Lacrima Italic and Studio Feixen Sans.

For the presentation of the ING Talent Award finalists at the Kunsthal Rotterdam I created the visual identity that was applied to the walls and guiding texts. The ING Talent Award offers emerging, talented photographers in Europe a platform for showing their own work to an international audience.

The theme of the exhibition was Resilience, a personal story, which could be interpreted as staying strong in uncertain times. I translated this into typography and form by working with the font Labil Grotesk, making use of its alternative characters, so that a word can suddenly look unstable. It makes the design look sleek, but also playful. To give the identity a personal character I used Lacrima Italic – a serif with the raw characteristics of a typewriter typeface.

As a guideline for colors and shapes, I looked at the work of Andrea Grützner – one of the previous winners. With the shapes I made an abstract spatial design with lines that refers to a staircase – and the colors reflect the positive character of resilience.