Editorial Illustration
31 years in the shade
A course by Javier Jaén , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: 31 years in the shade
Overview
“We all have influences and referents to some extent, these are mine.”
In this video lesson Javier Jaén addresses the topic: 31 years in the shade, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration. Introduction to conceptual illustration in press.
Partial transcription of the video
“Referents As I suppose it will happen to you, my list of likes and references It is very heterogeneous and goes much further of those that are directly related to graphic design, illustration or audiovisual communication. I have been influenced by the music I have heard, the places where I've lived, the people I've met and, in reality, each and every one of the things that have happened in my life and have shaped from my way of walking, my sense of humor or my scale of values. Simply, as Juli Capella says, You have to learn to live in an obsessively curious way. As a representative of all t...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration
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Areas
Art Direction, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Information Design

Javier Jaén
A course by Javier Jaén
Javier Jaén has studies in Advertising Graphics and Fine Arts in Barcelona, New York and Budapest.
He works in illustration of press, editorial and cultural communication. His work is related to a symbolic language, playful and double readings. Look for narrative scenarios in a close context and related to everyday experience. He has worked for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time, Harvard University, La Vanguardia, El País, Valor Brasil, Planeta, Penguin Random House, Vueling, and Unesco among others.
He has taught at the Istituto Europeo di Design, IDEP, workshops and conferences at various art and design schools. His work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, (2012-2014), American Illustration (AI33, AI34), Print Magazine New Visual Artists (2013), Premis Junceda (2013), Laus Awards (2013), Gràffica Award (2010) ) among others.
He has participated in exhibitions in New York, London, El Salvador, Rome and Barcelona.
He has not yet written a child, he has not planted a book, nor has he given birth to a tree.
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