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Post-its as writing…
On Thursday October 8 2009 3M Company of Puerto Rico held a fashion show to promote some of their Post-it products. For the event, estudio interlínea was commissioned to design and execute the event’s visual language… of course, all of it made out of Post-its.
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To make the video more interesting, I used the music track [...]
Advocacy Planning to Open Irrigation Channels in Isabela, Puerto Rico as a Tourism Attraction
The early part of the XXth century witnessed the construction of an extensive web of irrigation channels to distribute water to homes and farmlands in Puerto Rico along more than 35 kms. Still in operation to this day, throughout time different individuals and groups have acknowledged the scenic value of these channels; however, to most [...]
Editorial Revés: Una de cal y otra de arena
Puerto Rico, in it’s short 516 year-old political history, has been under the sponsorship of two different parent countries. Such a diverse context equipped the island with a rich and detailed history of its construction sector, particularly in techniques, practices and ways of building.
This publication chronologically documents this record through a balanced presentation of research [...]
The Mill Center for the Arts
Typography becomes landscape. Typography is landscape.
The Mill Center for the Arts sponsored a national contest in 2005, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, for the design of a new center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. In a collaboration with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos, I participated in the creation, conceptualization and design [...]
On Tracks: An Alternate Way of Moving in Old San Juan
Every 3 seconds a new car drives into Old San Juan. On regular business hours, more than 1,200 hourly vehicles complete the journey, for an average of 27,000 daily cars moving into the city. On special events, over 60,000 people try —almost always on their own— to reach the city…
This 3-year exhibit installation evaluates [...]
Editorial Revés: Detrás del Silencio
After exploring body movement for 80 years (ballet, flamenco, mime and modern dance), a leading Puerto Rican theater figure thought it fit—as her swan song—to collect her memorabilia in a publication, including artwork, set and costume designs, photos (portraits, live action), original programs, posters and press clippings. Widely admired, Gilda Navarra was a muse to [...]
Nassar Family Mailbox
Typography as shelter.
This collaboration with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos required to find a solution to the client’s problem: he only received the newspaper at his home and he did not want it to get wet. The initial to the client’s last name served as inspiration for the design and specification of this newsbox made out [...]
Charla Contramagistral Invitation
Metaphor becomes message.
A new dean takes over the younger of two architecture schools in Puerto Rico. First order of business: host an opening lecture to communicate initial ideas, intentions and plans. The public lecture, thus, had to be publicly advertised. Radiographic language was chosen to allow for the most direct message with the least amount [...]
Spivak Family Residence Door
Family initials become permanent hosts of a residence.
This collaboration with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos aimed at providing a signature door to an already signature home. The Spivak family inquired for a graphic gesture to welcome their guests at the entrance of the home. Typography was used as inspiration for the design and specification of the [...]
View from the Scaffold Exhibit
San José Church was built in a gothic style between 1532 & 1735 as a conventual church for Dominican friars. In its 474 years, the climatic ravages of time and the lack of timely preventative conservation work have had a harmful toll on it.
Having closed the temple to the public about ten years ago in [...]
Monumento a la Mujer
This collaboration, the first with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos, explored the power of mixing narrative and typography with architecture’s spatial meaning. The unrealized proposal meant to honor women in the history of Puerto Rican. As such, part of the earth grows out, revealing those who came before us: slaves, collectors, teachers, weavers, indians, and others. [...]
Editorial Revés: 100 Questions We Have Asked About Puerto Rico
Concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to image-making, an Architecture School’s Dean struggled to find the best way to showcase such work.
The School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico decided to celebrate its 10th anniversary by publishing and exhibiting the [...]
Puerto Rico Gráfico
Urban walls conceived as text.
The author/photographer relies on the lens to enhance an appreciation of the contem-porary urban experience by framing quotidian images and their messages, as they appear in well known places around the city of San Juan. Uprooted from their context, images are woven into a narrative of their own. An exhibit followed [...]
Billoch Family Mailbox
Industrial design serves as disguise.
This collaboration with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos was handed down with the goal of hiding a cable box in the lawn of this particular client. It was decided to cover it with a removable mailbox that could be placed on top of the box. If the cable repair person ever had [...]
Voces / Brazos
Exploring form, message, craft, typography, architecture and building though the re-purposing of construction tools to cast typography.
This collaboration with Jorge Rigau, FAIA Arquitectos was for the design of a fountain in the main plaza of Vieques island, located to the east of Puerto Rico. As part of the concept of the overall design, there was [...]
Editorial Revés: Micro
Design process becomes design structure.
An architect’s portfolio of recent work unfolds the creative process pursuant to recent, small-scale design projects. The book mirrors a more or less standard procedure: problem analysis leads to an idea which becomes a set of diagrams and develops 2D and 3D. The building phase yields a final product, but also [...]