Javier Mariscal

Javier Mariscal ( born February 1950 in Valencia ) is a Spanish designer and illustrator. He became internationally known primarily for product and industrial design as well as the corporate design for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the corporate identity for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover.

Life and work

Mariscal grew up in a large family with eleven siblings in Valencia. Even as a child Mariscal had a penchant for comics of all kinds and even began to paint small pictures stories vowegnahmen his later style. From 1967 to 1970 he studied philosophy in Valencia. 1970 Mariscal moved to Barcelona, ​​where he studied at the Escuela de Grafismo Elisava graphic design and still lives and works today. After a few attempts as a painter and illustrator of underground comics, he focused increasingly on the profession of graphic designer, illustrator and interior designer and did minor contract work for Spanish companies. In 1979, he designed the logo design Bar Cel Ona, which made him known. The following year opened and he designed together with Fernando Salas, the interior of the bar Duplex in Valencia and designed his first masterpiece the same bar stool duplex, a leaning and crooked chair with three different thin legs. Become aware of the postmodern designs of the Spaniard invites him Ettore Sottsass in 1981 to participate in the exhibition held in Milan " International Style " of the Memphis Group. In 1987 Mariscal a solo exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In subsequent years, several well-known industrial designs arise in typical Mariscal Comic Language: For example, the vase Olé with hat and chair Garriri, with big Mickey Mouse ears on the back as well as comic shoes on the chair legs.

Cobi

1988 Mariscal was awarded by public tender the contract a mascot for the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 to design. Mariscal developed the figure " Cobi " as a popular figure for young and old. Cobi appeared already in Mariscal's early underground comic El Rrollo Enmascarado. Later Mariscal attacked the comic idea again and developed by Cobi the series The Cobi Troupe.

Estudio Mariscal

Encouraged by the growing success of expanding Mariscal and founded in 1989 his own design company Estudio Mariscal in Barcelona. The new company concept is to combine all the disciplines of audio- visual and haptic designs and works with renowned designers and architects such as Arata Isozaki, Alfredo Arribas, Fernando Salas, Fernando Amat and Pepe Cortés together. Estudio Mariscal is characterized in the following years, responsible for numerous well-known designs and corporate identities; among the principals, among others the Swedish Social Democratic Party Socialdemokraterna, the Spanish radio station Onda Cero, the production company Framestore CFC in London and the Lighthouse Centre for Architecture and Design in Glasgow.

EXPO 2000 and Twipsy

In 1995, Estudio Mariscal with the figure Twipsy the tender to design an identity designs for the world exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover. The figure was chosen by an international series. The success of the mascot led to a whole series of devotional items such as T- shirts, watches, stuffed animals, coffee cups or to special stamps and web design with interactive Twipsy animations. The futuristic design of the figure, however, also broke out critical voices. In 1999, an animated television series with Twipsy, which was broadcast simultaneously on KI.KA Expo 2000.

Other projects

In 1995, the design for a furniture collection from Italian manufacturer Moroso, including the chair Alexandra, the characteristically designed with its organic forms Mariscal's extroverted and colorful design style was reflected. 2002 reached Mariscal interdisciplinary design concept a climax with the complete design of the Gran Hotel Domine in Bilbao, which blends into the design with the opposite Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and tells the story of contemporary design of the twentieth century. Along with Fernando Salas designs Mariscal numerous other interior design projects such as the Latin Jazz Club Calle 54

Since 2005, Estudio Mariscal designed the Children's Furniture Collection Me Too for designer furniture company Magis; other current projects are fire designs, web design and interior design for Ikea in Vitoria- Gasteiz. 2006 Mariscal involved in the ARCO art fair with the sculpture crash, a homage to the 1950s design - a dig to show that confidence is zunichtegegangen in the future because we need today are more likely to think about how a future is to make it possible.

In 2010 he led Fernando Trueba and Tono next Errando directed the animated film Chico & Rita, who was honored at the 2011 Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart in the feature film competition AniMovie as the best animated film.

Honors

In recognition for his oeuvre Javier Mariscal was awarded the 1995 Premio Nacional de Diseño (National Prize for Design ) of the Spanish Ministry of Industry ( MITyC ) and the Barcelona Centro de Diseño (BCD ).

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