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Artículo dedicado al diseño español. Aparición del proyecto gráfico Spanish cards Now!TRANSCRIPT
80 I.D. May 2009 www.id-mag.com 81Surtido Invitational
Furniture and graphic designer Jose Alberto González Ruiz updated Spanish playing cards to reflect the country’s contemporary social heirarchies: Banks and shareholders supplant emperors and kings as symbols of power, while swords and other military references are replaced with hammers and workers. The cards are the perfect catalyst for after-dinner political discussions. www.joseacreative.es
Jose Alberto Gonzàlez Ruiz
Spanish Cards Now!
Tea tree’s fine for health nuts, but hard-living types will prefer Sol y Sombra (“Sun and Shadow”), a toothpick flavored like its namesake: the classic anise and brandy drink served in nearly every Spanish watering hole. “The Spanish habit of chewing a toothpick has never been so pleasant,” write Obj.’s Javier Taberner Gómez-Ferrer and Nacho Poveda Lorenzo.www.obj.es
Obj. Studio
Sol y Sombra
Though “it can still be found in small towns and the occasional beach bar,” says Xavier Mañosa, the traditional Spanish botijo jug—a once-ubiquitous water chiller and purifier made from fired, untreated clay—has been rendered mostly obsolete by modern appliances. Mañosa found a new use for the vessel by coating it in enamel and transforming it into a table lamp. www.apparatu.com
Dominguera