Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2013 / Diane Gray (ed.) / English edition / Paperback with jacket / 170 x 240 mm / 288 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-936901-8-2 / The works nominated for the award and the runners-up are described and illustrated in this catalogue. The sequence of the layout systematically alternates between double page spreads with single images and a profusion of texts and images to create a regular rhythm of parallel readings throughout the book.
Catalogues series / Arts Santa Mònica, Actar / 2010-2012 / Editions in Catalan, Spanish and English / 165 x 235 mm / Colour / This series of short monographs on art and science is a register of the respective exhibitions that were held at Arts Santa Mònica art centre in the heart of Barcelona, the Rambles. Although some of them are dedicated to solo shows and others to collective displays, all the volumes are very visual and aim to spark critical reflection.
Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) (2013), Casa del Lector, Madrid (2013), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2014) / 2013-2014 / Juan Insúa (ed.) / Bilingual editions Catalan-English and Spanish-English / 170 x 240 mm / 176 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-89384-90-3 (Spanish-English) / This catalogue assembles critical texts and a range of graphic and literary material from the Chilean writer’s archive, published on occasion of the exhibition staged by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). The publication includes photographs by Adrià Goula.
Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) / 2015 / Jorge Carrión (ed.) / Bilingual Catalan-English and Spanish-English editions / 170 x 240 mm / 104 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-60657-02-6 (spanish-english) / This is a hybrid publication, halfway between an essay and an art catalogue. The layout reveals compositional variations according to content formats, and the small volume is a high quality publication. / Photos, 1, 3, 4: © Claudia Parra.
Catalogue / Art is Trash / Promopress / 2015 / English edition / 180 x 270 mm / 192 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-84-15967-34-7 / «Art is Trash is the nom de guerre of Francisco de Pájaro, the artist who has astounded passers-by in th streets of Barcelona, London and New York, but also bloggers, curators and gallery owners, eager to find straightforward, instinctive and honest artists. Leading urban art galleries such us Westbank Gallery in London and Base Elements in Barcelona have already exhibited his works. This is the first book to showcase the work, phylosophy and evolution of one of the most fascinating, groundbreaking and brave artists in the street-art scen today, through his street installations and his canvases in galleries». Montse Borràs (excerpt of the back cover) / Design in collaboration with Carla Bosch.
Essay / Patsy Healey / Kajima Institute Publishing / 2015 / Kayo Murakami (ed.) / Japanese edition / 135 x 195 mm / 368 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-4-306-07318-0 / Japanese edition of an academic thesis written by town planner Patsy Healey. Its small format and a layout characterised by generous page margins allow readers – whether they be town planners or architects – to carry the book with them on their travels in order to jot down their thoughts and discoveries, thereby turning the object into a diary. The legibility of the book’s title is subtly and painstakingly challenged on the cover by means of computer graphics with information from the architectural examples mentioned inside.
Catalogue / Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) / 2014 / Adolf Sotoca, Oscar Carracedo (eds.) / Catalan and English editions / Flexibound / 240 x 310 mm / 440 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-96842-62-5 (english) / An extensive compilation of the projects submitted to the competition for developing the borders of Collserola, the natural mountain area north of Barcelona. One hundred and eleven projects organised in the form of chapters, essays and other contributions engage in a regular and systematic dialogue amidst a range of layouts. Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.
Catalogue / Víctor Escandell / Promopress / 2016 / Spanish, English, French and Italian editions / Hardback / 210 x 255 mm / 128 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-16504-62-6 (english) / This is a joint project carried out by illustrator Víctor Escandell, photographer Alicia Martorella and editor Montse Borràs, in close collaboration. The pages are arranged to resemble the artist’s desktop. Throughout much of the book, chapter by chapter, we may follow the construction of the collages as if were taking part in a workshop in progress. The layout reflects the organic quality of the creation of the works, revealing to readers an apparent disorder that is, however, balanced by the underlying graticule to bring rhythm and liveliness to the reading experience.
Catalogue / Promopress / 2016 / Adrià S. Vidiella (ed.) / English, Spanish and French editions / Hardback / 210 x 240 mm / 320 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-15967-70-5 (english) / In this book a thousand short excerpts of text accompany numerous images of the projects . Starting from a fixed graticule, the columns of text adapt to the wide range of formats and sizes of the images, enhancing the layout. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.
Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Lars Müller Publishers / 2015 / Diane Gray (ed.) / English edition / 165 x 240 mm / 208 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-3-03778-474-7 / To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, created by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and co-organised by several European architectural institutions. The design is conceived to enhance the legibility of the book over and above the lavish illustrations of the prized works. The graphic project shared with CCCB extends to an exhibition that has toured several countries in Europe and the United States and will be held every two years. / Designed in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.
Catalogue / Institute of advanced architecture of Catalunya (IaaC), FabLab Barcelona / 2018 / Tomás Díez (ed.) / English edition / Paperback / 150 x 210 mm / 224 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-84-948142-1-1 / «The book focuses on the power of human-centered technology to transform urban environments and our socioeconomic systems. It showcases the ideas of key thinkers from disciplines including science, design, architecture, urbanism, technology, and sociology, all offering insights from their theoretical experience on how to bring about systems change through the distribution of acces to tools and knowledge.» Tomàs Díez (excerpt from the back cover)
Catalogue / CoHousing Barcelona SCCL / 2019 / Ingo von Sundhal (ed.) / Catalan and Spanish editions / Paperback / 165 x 235 mm / 96 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-09-14428-0 (spanish) / A brief monograph on cooperative housing that includes contributions by specialists. Yellow and green are corporate colours and run throughout the catalogue. The volume is illustrated by Tomoko Sakamoto.
Catalogue / Planeta Gastro / 2018 / Luki Huber / Spanish edition / 155 x 215 mm / 320 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-08181-28-9 / For the first time, the entire object design developed by Luki Huber for Ferran Adrià’s elBulli restaurant is brought together in this book. Specific cooking utensils and a variety of artefacts are displayed in sketches, well-made photographs and short texts. The book’s rigorous cataloguing system is accompanied by a simple design, divested of all expression.
Essay / Sebastià Jovani / Plec 22 / 2019 / Pere Torrell (ed.) / Catalan edition / Paperback with flaps / Digital printing / 105 x 180 mm / 104 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-94426-95-7 /
«After numerous furtive attempts, a highly dangerous conglomerate of media terrorism has succeeding in developing Phylosofar, a synthetic pharmacological substance which, injected, acts as a catalyst for a substance of high noetic concentration: polyscriptylene logos-diethylamide: [Σ(n-1 ΘxC20H25N3O].» Sebastià Jovani (Excerpt from the back cover.)
Selection of books / Promopress – Hoaki / 2013-… / A graphic collaboration with Promopress publishing house (Hoaki Books, since 2019) translated into cover designs, complete publications and smaller catalogues on architecture, fashion, design and art.
Catalogue / Ajuntament de Barcelona, Actar / 2015 / Vicente Guallart, Ricard Gratacós, Carles Bárcena (eds.) / Catalan and English editions / Flexibound / 240 x 310 mm / 440 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-1-940291-72-7 (english) / Barcelona City Council has been publishing this series of ‘Plans and Projects for Barcelona’ for more than thirty years, under different political cycles. The various projects and theses on the condition of the city are described in terms of town planning, architecture and public space, of the present and of the future. The complex contents are visually and organically arranged, comprehensible at different scales thanks to a strict hierarchy and range of graphic styles that unite the book as a whole. / Designed in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.
Catalogue / Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona / 2018 / POCH (ed.) / Catalan, Spanish and English editions / Hardback (catalan) and flexibound (spanish and english) / 235 x 270 mm / 304 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-87881-22-0 (english) / This book is at once a compilation of projects and a celebration of twenty-five years of work dedicated to public space around Barcelona, forming a visual landscape and creating a space for reflection. Over and above the catalogued structure of its themes, the book provides keys for cross-readings adding tags to facilitate surfing the website.
Two monographies series / Antoni Muntadas / Esteban Andueza (ed.) / Three editions: Asian Protocols. Muntadas [China] / Centre d’Estudis i Recerca [Arxiu/AM], Three Shadows Photography Art Centre / 2018 / Bilingual edition English-Chinese / Box containing an explanatory leaflet, an elastic band and a digital code to download the catalogue / 180 x 240 mm / Colour / ISBN: ND; Asian Protocols. Muntadas [Japan] / 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Institut Ramon Lllull / 2016 / Trilingual edition English-Japanese-Catalan / Paperback / 180 x 240 mm / 128 pages / Colour / ISBN: ND; Asian Protocols. Muntadas. Round-table transcripts / 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Institut Ramon Lllull / 2016 / Bilingual edition English-Chinese / Paperback / 180 x 240 mm / 112 pages / BN / ISBN: ND / “Asian Protocols is an attempt to deal with images and codes as part of visual experiences, with contrasting approaches: more versus less, near versus far, etc. By sharing stories about China, Korea and Japan and tracing their different paths of development we get a glimpse of moments of agreement and disagreement.” Antoni Muntadas. (Excerpt from the back cover.) The ‘Chinese volume’ is an object apparently devoid of content – a box, without its corresponding catalogue – intended to challenge that Asian country’s latent censorship. Through a conveniently readable QR code, the contents of the exhibition can be digitally downloaded. The ‘Japanese volume’ is structured in fragments, packets of texts, essays, graphs and images. In terms of design, the graphics of each different block start from a coded colour to create contrasts between densities and rhythmical readings.
Monografia / Indissoluble / 2015 / Celia Alba de la Torre (ed.) / Edició en castellà / 297 x 420 mm / 8 pàgs. / Negre + tinta directa / ISBN: ND / A short treatise designed as a large-format ephemeral fold-out that compiles a selection of exhibition installations and of projects by the architectural office. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra. Photo: © Claudia Parra
Revista / Elisava / 2011-2016 / Edicions en català, castellà i anglès / 210 x 280 mm / 96 pàgs. / Color / ISSN: 1889-5913 / A series of academic monographic reviews published once a year. Designed especially for each issue, the cover is the most relevant visual feature of the magazine, along with the tags of concepts and authors.
Archivo Lafuente / 2014 / Creation of a logotype and general identity for an archive that gathers abundant documentation on twentieth-century art, mainly from the years 1900 to 1980 in Europe and Latin America. One of the key themes that run through the different collections in the archive is that of experimental writing, developed in fields as diverse as visual poetry, mail art, literature, typography, artists books, etc. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra. Photo: © Claudia Parra.
Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz / 2017-2020 / ARCO, estand de El País, Madrid, 2020; Kent Fine Arts, Nova York, 2017; Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid, 2017 / The production of Palabras, palabras… (Words, Words …) addresses the redefinition of public space through politics and the media. The proposal develops a series of specific graphic distortions for each term, although it aims to reflect a visual unit of the intervention. Photo: © Santi Burgos
Catalogue / Luki Huber / Empresa Activa / 2015 / English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese editions / 240 x 165 mm / 160 pages and a sheet of stickers / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-941836-0-7 (english) / Manual Thinking is a new tool and instructions manual for team thinking in visual terms made by product designers Luki Huber and Gerrit Jan Veldman. Besides designing the publication, Spread has collaborated with the authors on workshops and practical sessions with students, professionals and collectives in the creative field.
Fundació HiTT/ 2017-2020 / Identitat per a una fundació dedicada a la innovació en els camps de la medicina i la salut.
Catalogue / KOBUFUJI Architects (Yoshihide Kobanawa, Kaoru Fujii), Akira Ito (Social design studio-Toyo University) / 2020 / Stapled binding / 181 x 256 mm / 24 pages / Colour / Japanese edition / A document in the form of a notebook to publicise the project of transitional development of the Mashiko landscapes (in the prefecture of Tochigi), a Japanese town known for its traditional ceramics, its history and natural surroundings. This publication, intended to raise awareness of the need to preserve local landscapes and promote sustainable tourism, hopes to offer all inhabitants of the area a long-term view of the strategy.
Catalogue / Basheer, National University of Singapore / 2020 / Oscar Carracedo (ed.) / Hardback / 165 x 245 mm / 168 pages / Colour / English edition / ISBN: 978-981-14-3882-0 / This edition compiles town-planning and public space projects undertaken by students of the university’s Urban Design MA.
Catalogue / National University of Singapore / 2020 / Asma Khawatmi, Nirmal Kishnani (eds.) / Paperback with flaps / 180 x 250 mm / 248 pages / Colour / English edition / ISBN: 978-981-14-5675-6 / A compilatory display of three years’ projects for the MSc ISD on town planning, public space, mobility and sustainability of three megalopolises in South East Asia. The theme of scale runs throughout the book to organise its composition and measure the various graphic elements. System and hierarchy are the guiding principles of the layout.