by f8c898fb93 | Feb 16, 2023
Read books, design covers
Good covers complete books. They say something about the quality of the edition and the professionalism of the publishers. Covers enhance a book. I believe, therefore, that people who value a book also care about the covers and they may sway them when choosing one edition or another.
But I believe covers are also something else. They are the doors and windows of books, they make our browsing of bookstore new release tables easier and more pleasant.
They help us choose books and turn them into more beautiful and desirable objects. When I began designing covers, I did not think it was necessary to read the books. Yet, after designing several hundred of them, I realized that, with a few exceptions, the best covers I have designed are for the books I know best, that have moved me, or whose contents have interested me most.
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by Cristina Rodrigo Romero | Dec 16, 2021
Universal Spaniard award 2021
Felipe González, former Spanish prime minister, received in December 2021 the Universal Spaniard Award, presented every year by the Independent Foundation.
Estrada Design designed the logo for the award ceremony and is working on a book about the figure of the former prime minister.
The award ceremony and dinner, held in the old Madrid Casino, brought together 250 people who followed speeches by Aldo Olcese, chairman of the Independent Foundation; Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia; Isabel Rodríguez, government spokesperson; Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile; Romano Prodi, former president of the European Commission; Pedro Sánchez, Spanish prime minister, and Felipe González himself.
Four red, orange and grey pieces drawing the F and G of his name served to create a graphic atmosphere and the backdrop of the stage used for the speeches.
by Cristina Rodrigo Romero | Oct 14, 2021
Designed by Estrada Design and edited by Alianza Editorial.
The Walker: On Losing and Finding Oneself in the Modern City (Verso, 2020), a series of chapters on writers including Chesterton, Dickens, Ford, Wells and Woolf, all of whom have placed the experience of walking in the metropolis at the centre of their attempts to understand and represent modernity…
by Cristina Rodrigo Romero | Apr 23, 2021
15M. The time of the squares
Designed by Estrada Design and edited by Alianza Editorial, Written by Julia Ramírez Blanco, 15M. The time of the squares offers an approximation of a phenomenon that left an indelible mark on the memory of several generations.
by Cristina Rodrigo Romero | Feb 22, 2021
2021 is beginning, which today we sense intuitively as a light at the end of the tunnel, the beginning of the end of one of the darkest periods in our recent history. First healthcare workers, then teachers, civil servants and researchers have played an essential role in combatting this pandemic, which burst into our lives by surprise shortly after the beginning of the year that is now coming to an end. The designers, the small design companies, modestly feel that we have also played a clearly useful social role, keeping up our work with all of our normal intensity and energy, and perhaps with even more enthusiasm, if possible. We have facilitated communication activity and quality during these difficult times. We are convinced that design and innovation contribute to maintaining hope and activity in daily life.
We will not have truly emerged until we regain an atmosphere of normalcy and well-being for the majority of the population. The modest contribution of designers, far from the essential nature of healthcare workers or researchers, could also be very important in this period of normalisation. This small publication contains a good part of the projects completed by Estrada Design during the Covid year.
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