Every summer many towns in Spain have fiestas and festivals. This year Combarro, a small town in Pontevedra, Galicia, is having a rock festival. I’m not sure about the quality of Galician rock & roll, but I am sure the ads for this event are fantastic!
My cousin in Raxó, Spain (Galicia) runs a hut on Sinas beach. In Spain these huts are called Chiringuitos and they sell water, beer and snacks. Every week during the summer he does a churrasco which draws a decent crowd. This year, in an attempt to bring a little brand-recognition to his venture, he asked [...]
A former professor of mine told me “you can’t shit if you don’t eat”. What she meant was that I needed to learn a balance between creative input and output. As a designer if you work too hard for too long, you start to loose the joy in what you do and that’s a death-knell [...]
Saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona yesterday (we were there during filming!). Great. Loved its personality-type reductionism and the ever-nagging choice between boring predictability or the fickle whimsy of following desire. Evidently Allen wrote a “diary” of sorts during filming and its quite funny. Check it out: MARCH 5 Met with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. She’s [...]
After checking out an old favorite of mine, Area 17, I noticed they designed a site for Nove (Grupo Gastronómico Galicia) – it’s a group of gastronomic chefs based in Galicia, Spain. In 2007 I spent three months in Raxo (Pontevedra) and 99.9% of the time the food blew me away. Galicia has some of [...]