| 14.04.10
Student with talent
That today's young designers don't know how to draw is not always true. Recently I found in FB this portrait, drawn by a student during my class at the EINA School of Design. I think she made a quite good job.
| 15.12.09
Good Vento
Very soon we will publish our LED Streetlamp produced by TROLL. It's a product with an amazing aspect of dynamic lightness which can be installed on column or on the wall. It's easy to install and thanks to his high-tech electronically circuit it offers a real long life expectation and an important energy reduction. We are very proud about the VENTO streetlamp, which soon you will see on the market.
| 04.06.09
Trafficlights in Barcelona
In the last few years the lightning system of Barcelona's trafficlights was changed from bulbs to LED tecnology. What firstly seemed a state of the art tecnology with large duration and less consumption of energy has changed to a nightmare. Let's hope that the new lights of Barcelona, coming from a recently hold design competition, will use a more time-effective lightning system!
| 23.04.09
Paper planes Culé
Yesterday I saw the match between FC Barcelona and Sevilla live at the stadion! It's about fifteen years that I didn't stay at the Camp Nou. With about 60.000 spectators and an illuminated Barça team I had really a good time. A curious thing I observed were those paper planes, which were thrown from the stands. Some of them really reached the football field. Congratulations to all those talented designers of Barça's blue-granate paper planes even if they were in white ! (color of Real Madrid)
| 09.03.09
Duct tape

Recently, the seat of my bike has started to crack and as an effective remedy I repaired it with the classic American DUCT TAPE. This tape was invented in 1942, like so many things for the American army. It is based on a water resistant rubber adhesive mounted on a very strong silver gray fabric. This gray ribbon has become famous by the NASA spaceflights, especially in the case of the lunar module of Apollo 13 when repairing his CO2 scrubbers; the tape has really saved the lives of astronauts.
The DUCT TAPE actually has become a kind of cult for young designers such as Jason Miller's Duct Tape Lounge Chairs, where the aesthetics of repair acquires an aesthetic value. Maybe this could be an interesting topic for an exhibition!


About Jason Miller's Duct Tape Chair 

| 05.02.09
At home with your favourite tyrant
I'm not sure to recommend you this book, but it is certainly one of these curiosities that thrills me: Peter York's "Dictator's Homes", published by Atlantic Books in 2005. Inside of it you can have a look on the monumental bathrooms of Ceausescu or Saddam Hussein, as well you may see some sofa corners of Franco and Idi Amin, the famous dressing room of Imelda Marcos and the megalomania interiors of Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini. But also you will find the Christmas tree of dictator Manuel Noriega (he was named "the pineapple face" of Panama) or Slobodan Milosevic's strangely elegant mansion. But the book is really worth for the photographs, more than the other content: the text has a Paparazzi cynicism that I do not appreciate. Casually these recent days, I received a present for my birthday that goes quite in the same line: a collection of playing cards with the worst figures of the 20th century history.
| 30.12.08
Jason King

These days I went back to see some episodes of a particular TV series of the seventies. Peter Wyngarde alias Jason King is the leading character of this British spin-off production of the former series "Department S". Jason is a dandyish writer/detective involved with criminal cases related to (cold war) spies or strange figures of 70´s high-society ambient. But for me, with my 10 years at these times, it was not so much the plot of the episodes but the character of Jason King by itself, what impressed me: always carrying a very extravagant and stylish outfit, especially the way how he winded the cuffs of his shirt. Jason King cultivated the image of an eccentric playboy – a "womanizer" flirting in each episode with one or several young pretty girls, sprawling and hanging out on a elegant divan, sipping French champagne with juicy strawberries. (I imitated Jason, although without girl, drinking sparkling apple-juice and the strawberries from the orchard of my grandpa). His pose and his way of making jokes also gave him this air of a "pimp" as actually represented in some videos of the US rapper Snoop Dogg. Maybe "Jason King" episodes will never be a reference of high quality but Jason King with his "pornstache" was one of my first aesthetic referents and for this I would like to dedicate herby this homage.

Interesting blog about Jason King (spanish)

| 26.09.08
Icons of a new generation
What's that? A kind of a box installed on an urban pole and covered with a graffiti. Some electrical device for lighting: anonyms, gray, dirty. The truth is that this object was discovered by my thirteen years old daughter: Look, she said delighted, pointing with his fingers on the buttons, the screen until even the proportions of the box: a GameBoy!