Conciencia Visual goes to Petare
We’ve marked the start of “Dream Out Loud!”, a collaborative project between Conciencia Visual and Lamas Foundation 9Sucre Council Venezuela)
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Published in Halo, Magazine for Business
Named in Halo, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design as one social innovator forging a better world in the article ‘Building the New Society’. Alongside with Common Ground and Mikkel Grønkjær Hansen as part of the Urban Green Line collective, Halo interviewed CSM graduates working in social innovation. Read more…
Published in 3D Type book
The project ‘Earth will Survive’ in collaboration with communication designer Georgina Potier has been published in the 3D Type Book as an example of a ‘source of inspiration in one of the most comprehensive showcase so far that focuses 100 percent on three dimensional experimental artforms…’
Conciencia Visual in Mono Magazine
Conciencia Visual was described in Magazine Mono, article ‘Derecho a Réplica’ (The Right to Replicate) by ERGO as an initiative that has set the foundations for a more participative dialogue within urban context.
Three is the magic number for 2011
It’s been weeks since my last post thanks to work in the last few months of 2010. It has been a very busy end of the year! Projects have been taking off the ground and some ongoing saw a leap in progress. I think people get uneasy when they see the end of year catching up with them and feel they need to close some chapters. So a quick update from my part. Read more…
One good, two bad. Better said, TOO bad!
On one of my web-surfing trips (who knows on which as I seem to be online more than ever now), I ran into these three initiatives in the same 30 minutes. This made me think: ” I surely hope that this is not the average ratio of start-ups. One really interesting, inspiring excellent idea and two of the crappiest things I’ve seen in a long time”
Canon’s Sound Sculptures & my own Project VAIN: a lot alike.
Today I came across this video of a commercial for Canon’s PIXMA colour printer range, done by creative communications agency Dentsu London. I was shocked and at the same time pleasantly surprised to see exactly the same principles and concept that I used to create my images for my MA Applied Imagination final project “Project VAIN” in 2007 being applied by Dentsu London today. Read more…
The future of Design: London design 2010?
I managed to go to two of many the things happening at London Design week 2010, 100% Design and Designersblock. Surprisingly, although still pretty big 100% Design felt smaller this year and I was very disappointed that the more experimental and upcoming designers part of it was missing in comparison to the many things we were able to see last year.
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Conciencia Visual – pilot delivered
We delivered the pilot phase at the Festival Por el Medio de la Calle (In the Middle of the Street) on 23-26th of June. It materialised as an urban intervention to create crime prevention campaigns by using graffiti and stencil as creative techniques to generate a communication platform for and with Venezuelan youth…
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Designers can also be super heroes
Odd title, but I do think ‘Designers can also be super heroes’, title of the open talk I will be leading along with architect Penélope Plaza in Caracas, Venezuela on 25th June. As part of the urban Festival ‘Por el Medio de la Calle’ (Through the middle of the Street) programme, we will share the the experience of leading the workshop ‘Futuros Gráficos’ (Future Graphics) Read more…