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 | | | | | How you describe your style? | | I think that my style is very different because I work with different
mediums . I have worked in children's books, busines magazines,
newspapers, political revues and social and cultural posters. When I
studied art, I was inspired by the versatility and ideas of Milton Gleaser. | | | | Where does your inspiration and idea come from? | | Well, I am inspired from movies, magazines, lectures, art books,
exhibition paintings, music, the webculture, travels, etc. Sometimes I
investigate the topicI am working on in all these areas. Besides we have
in Mexico a great graphic tradition in the print media since José Guadalupe
Posada
(1852-1913), Ernesto "The Monkey" García Cabral (1890-1968) who published
with
La Vie Parisienne, Le Rire et La Bayonette en Paris and with Multicolor, El
Universal,
Excelsior and El Universal in Mexico City, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) he
worked
in New York with Vanity Fair,Vogue, Colliers, Harper's Bazar, The New
Yorker in USA
also with El Heraldo, El Universal Ilustrado, until Manuel Ahumada (1956)
and his urban
poetry in his drawings for La Jornada.
| | | | What are your favorite medium? | | I like to work whatever goes well on paper: magazines, books, newspapers,
posters, etc. However, I work sometimes for projects in the web, I feel that
the audiovisual world is very hard-hitting today. | | | | What do you prefer illustrating? | | I like to illustrate for magazines and newspapers for feel it's part of my
world.
I also enjoy very much to illustrate Children's Books and would like to do
more
posters. Until now, I did not work for an adversiting company but I am
open to do someting interesting if I find a creative art director to work
with. I think that
in my country agencies are reticent to be open to new ideas and art
directors copy the styles
from USA or Spain. And they do not respect illustrators, they only buy
hands, they do not buy style.
We still do not have an illustrators' society!
| | | | Who are your favorite graphic designers, illustrators and websites? | | Well, the american influence is inevitable: Milton Gleaser, Seymour
Schwatz, Brad Holland, etc. The french influence: Etienne Delessert, Folon,
other influences: the polish school: Rafal Olbinsky, Wiezyslaw
Gorowsky,Wiktor Worka
(I met them personally when they visited Mexico), etc. They were my
inspiration
when I was a student. Today in Mexico we have a very interesting work in
illustration,
comic, poster and graphic design, people like Alejandro Magallanes, Manuel
Monroy,
Domingo N. Martínez, Renato Aranda, Neographos Studio, Collective Hematoma,
to name a few. His work is exhibited around the world.
I visite sites how www.orisal.com, www.identikal.com, illu-station.com,
e-boy.com, superttoto.com, etc.
| | | | Which works have you a satisfied the most? | | Well, I enjoyed working on the The Barking Mouse, when I finished, I was
very
happy, because it was my first children's book published abroad. It was
very interesting
because it is aimed at the multicultural world, to be bilingual is very
important. In Mexico
we are very close to the USA, and this fact, creates cultural
veryinteresting situations.
I did a few posters, a poster about Dead Women in Ciudad Juárez, it was a
difficult social topic.
But I felt the compromise of graphic designers with his society.
I like a lot when I work with magazines because they have their own culture,
and sometimes
they are a thermometer of the present. | | | | What's your work at present? | | These days I work each month with Encuesta. I also illustrate for Vértigo,a
political magazine.
I am preparing some paintings for my personal exhibition in december in La
Condesa, a hip neighborhood in Mexico City. I collaborate with Jaguar Negro
Inc., in some
commercial and social projects, and they are creating my website. In
october, I will participe
in a collective exhibit of mexican illustrators. International Festival of
Design and the
Arts,Xalapa 2004, in the context of 8th International Biennal of thePoster
in Mexico.
Maybe I work with a adverstising agency in Murcia, Spain. | | | | Do you have any plans for the near future? is there anything you would like to doing in a future? | | I would like to work in some European projects and I hope someday to visit
Paris,
Amsterdam or Barcelona. I would like to do an animation project. And I have
a dream : to collaborate in a project for U2, my favorite music group! | | |
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