Date: Wednesday November 21 at 11:30am.
Place: Auditorium of the EASD Antonio Faílde.
Presentation of the book
Here are a hundred stories from the history of our culture, a hundred articles that are an invitation to break the codes of visual communication, a hundred bricks with which to help raise the history of the profession in Galicia.
There is always more to see if we use our eyes and head at the same time, if we look with all our cultural baggage. The pieces of graphic design reflect the culture of a country, even if we often don't read their messages, we lack the historical keys, so often denied, or the knowledge of the visual language, badly treated in regular education. Here are a hundred stories from the history of our culture, a hundred articles that are an invitation to break the codes of visual communication, a hundred bricks with which to help raise the history of the profession in Galicia.
Pepe Barro (Pontedeume, 1955) is a designer with more than forty years of experience who likes to touch all genres and even tries to mix them with each other, a practice that can be understood as a reading of Galicia that renews its signs of identity: the Galician Football Team, Casa de Rosalía, the Pazo de Vilane egg box or the Terra de Asorei Albariños are some of his works. As an independent professional (1977), associated with Grupo Revisión (1985) or since Barro Deseño (2013), he designs the corporate identity of entities such as the University of A Coruña, Consello da Cultura Galega, Xerais, Turgalicia, Denodo or Culturgal; designs publications such as A Nosa Terra, Diario de Galicia, Tempos, or Sermos Galiza; creates websites such as that of the Royal Galician Academy, illustrates books such as Arnoia, Arnoia or Galician Cantares, and even the first "coupons" of Once. Among other exhibitions, he designed the one for the centenary of the Royal Galician Academy (2006); Rosalía de Castro, in the beginning it was the verse (2013); or the Manuel Antonio House-Museum (2011). In 2014 he published the non-commercial book O como é o que conta, thirty articles on design, culture and the image of culture, edition of one hundred signed and numbered copies. In 2016 he designed the Con-fío exhibitions in Galicia; Health and Earth, sisters!, centenary of the Speech Brotherhoods; Galicia 100, objects to tell a culture. In 2017, the museological and museographic renovation of Casa de Rosalía was completed. He received the Galician Critic Award in 1983, the Ateneo de Ourense Galicia Design Award in 1984, the Xerais Award for Editorial Cooperation in 2000, the AEPD Award in 2004 or the Galician Graphic Communication Cluster Honor Award in 2017. member of the Galician Design Association (DAG).
A selection of Pepe Barro's works can be seen at www.grup orevision.net and www.pepebarro.gal
Photo by the author: Xoán Piñón
Date: Wednesday November 21 at 11:30am.
Place: Auditorium of the EASD Antonio Faílde.
Presentation of the book
Here are a hundred stories from the history of our culture, a hundred articles that are an invitation to break the codes of visual communication, a hundred bricks with which to help raise the history of the profession in Galicia.
There is always more to see if we use our eyes and head at the same time, if we look with all our cultural baggage. The pieces of graphic design reflect the culture of a country, even if we often don't read their messages, we lack the historical keys, so often denied, or the knowledge of the visual language, badly treated in regular education. Here are a hundred stories from the history of our culture, a hundred articles that are an invitation to break the codes of visual communication, a hundred bricks with which to help raise the history of the profession in Galicia.
Pepe Barro (Pontedeume, 1955) is a designer with more than forty years of experience who likes to touch all genres and even tries to mix them with each other, a practice that can be understood as a reading of Galicia that renews its signs of identity: the Galician Football Team, Casa de Rosalía, the Pazo de Vilane egg box or the Terra de Asorei Albariños are some of his works. As an independent professional (1977), associated with Grupo Revisión (1985) or since Barro Deseño (2013), he designs the corporate identity of entities such as the University of A Coruña, Consello da Cultura Galega, Xerais, Turgalicia, Denodo or Culturgal; designs publications such as A Nosa Terra, Diario de Galicia, Tempos, or Sermos Galiza; creates websites such as that of the Royal Galician Academy, illustrates books such as Arnoia, Arnoia or Galician Cantares, and even the first "coupons" of Once. Among other exhibitions, he designed the one for the centenary of the Royal Galician Academy (2006); Rosalía de Castro, in the beginning it was the verse (2013); or the Manuel Antonio House-Museum (2011). In 2014 he published the non-commercial book O como é o que conta, thirty articles on design, culture and the image of culture, edition of one hundred signed and numbered copies. In 2016 he designed the Con-fío exhibitions in Galicia; Health and Earth, sisters!, centenary of the Speech Brotherhoods; Galicia 100, objects to tell a culture. In 2017, the museological and museographic renovation of Casa de Rosalía was completed. He received the Galician Critic Award in 1983, the Ateneo de Ourense Galicia Design Award in 1984, the Xerais Award for Editorial Cooperation in 2000, the AEPD Award in 2004 or the Galician Graphic Communication Cluster Honor Award in 2017. member of the Galician Design Association (DAG).
A selection of Pepe Barro's works can be seen at www.grup orevision.net and www.pepebarro.gal
Photo by the author: Xoán Piñón
