I'm with the band - Los Ladillas, fuegian krautrock.

Since March I've been working with the band Los ladillas - 'crab lice' in spanish but also slang for slacker - a krautrock band from my hometown Ushuaia, in deep Patagonia.
The musicians were kind enough to let me visually explore their music and allowed me to listen to their material from  early jams to live recordings while I developed their logo and promotional artwork for their concerts.
The process took place purely online, with records and images travelling between Argentina and Scotland via the cloud. We paced the work around our our lives and that somehow gave us the illusion of being in a more analogic time when with tapes or drawings will have to travel across continents inside envelopes. That absence of the immediacy that the internet brings to everything in our lives nowadays it's reflected in the final results with both music and artwork.
The final result is the two ep's the band have now released online - bold move me thinks - and today I'm sharing the covers I've designed for them.
I should probably mention that I love this guys and I'm almost certain after listening to their music you may love them too.
Aguante ladillas!

Chacarero botón; Los ladillas - 2016

Los putos de la montaña; Los ladillas - 2016

Talk at Shetland College

This week I was invited to give a talk to the art students at Shetland College.
I had an opportunity to discuss the way I work with portable devices and the apps I use for drawing as well as my freelance work. Best of all I was able to hear how students are using new technology and share useful tips.
I was able to demonstrate and discuss the apps I'm most using nowadays: Snapseed, Dropbox, Sketchbook, Procreate, JotNot Scanner and Paper
Big thanks to Paul Bloomer for inviting me and to the students for making it a great experience.

Beto talks - Photo by Paul Bloomer

Go for Gold! - Befriending Scheme's new campaign

The 2012 Olympics are almost here and Shetland Befriending Scheme has chosen the eternal flame to promote their recruitment campaign. When I received the briefing to start the design process, there was a tiny note saying "fire writing?" as to suggesting that this could be a possibility. Never did I think I would be able to follow that road (crazy! I know, fire fonts, I'll never get that right) and looking back to the design process, all early sketches have the motto in some sort of bold-classic font away from the torch. To help me thumbnail and explore colours I used for the first time Paper by FiftyThree App. The app is a very basic notebook with simple tools for drawing and taking notes, this helped me focus on working ideas instead of wasting time drawing a detailed final image.
A few images from the process and the final image below.

First doodles

Exploring colours - Orange/Black/White

Flame writing? Too complicated

Developing the idea

Free hand try, the breakthrough

Finding my feet

Exploring poster layout

Process comparison

Poster final version

The final image - Nice fire typography!

This year I will ... - New befriending poster and freebies!

Happy 2012 there!
Back to work and to kick off the year another collaboration with Shetland Befriending Scheme. This new promotional material it's aimed at capturing those great post festive aspirations by hinting ways to achieve them elusive new year resolutions. Below you can download the poster in wallpaper format for iPod/iPhone and iPad versions!
Enjoy!

iPhone/iPod version - Click on image to download

iPad version - Click on image to download

Time to listen (and look)

I have to admit it was kind of nice downloading the podcast for the radio program we started doing last week. But as I listened to it on my iPad I couldn't help looking at the logo I put together a couple of weeks ago and finding tiny little things I could improve. Here is a few snapshots of how the logo looks in iTunes and make sure you get the podcast HERE