Ester Vilaplana

Ester Vilaplana

Graphic DesignerBarcelona, Spain
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Sabela Ros
Alexandra Zielaskiewicz
Ester Vilaplana

Ester Vilaplana

Graphic DesignerBarcelona, Spain
About me
I am a graphic designer particularly interested in illustration and motion graphics, as well as in interactive installations. I have a positive mind and I am always keen to explore new fields and challenge myself. Also, I am very passionate about dance and I enjoy photography.
Projects
  • Stage TV
    Stage TVStage TV is thought as a cultural TV channel focused on 4 performance fields: dance, opera, theatre and musicals. The logo plays with the concept of a stage so it has the top and bottom limits of the space and the typography works as the theatre curtain would do. The rest of the elements are developed from this same movement concept. [Student Project]
  • Drip Drops
    Drip DropsDrip Drops is a display typeface that consists of only upper case. Its distinctive feature is the drop that all its characters have. It is based on a geometric and sans serif typography and it has two different kind of drops, adapted to form each character. Based on this form, we can create an ornamentation code that complement the typography.
  • Oh my hair!
    Oh my hair!Set of three illustrations for a hairdressing salon. It is done with color pencils and marker pens.
  • Ephemeral Perfection
    Ephemeral PerfectionThis project starts with the shape of a circle. A circle is perfect. A circle is endless. But, is perfection endless? The circle has been related to perfection by many illustrious writers and artists from different periods. Aristotle wrote that the circle was “the perfect, first, most beautiful form.” Cicero wrote that the most distinctive form were the circle, in plane figures, and the sphere, in solids. It also evokes the idea of something endless. You do not know where it starts or ends, it is an infinite cycle. Perfection is an idea that we chase but it is really difficult to achieve. And even if we are close to it, it does not stay forever, it has an end. In this project the topic is this decadence and ephemerality of something almost perfect. Lots of fruits have circular shapes and if you sliced them they follow a simetric pattern inside. Having them as a metaphore of this decadent perfection, I decided to make this visual piece.
  • Cognitio Magazine
    Cognitio MagazineCognitio is a digital science magazine which is aimed at a non-specialized public. The magazine uses the interactivity that digital publishing offers in order to make science more understandable and entertaining. The articles that this magazine has are not focused only on one field of science but in many different fields, such as biology, maths, technology, medicine, physics or chemistry. The look and feel of this magazine is inspired by the accuracy and neatness usually associated with science. Therefore, all the lines are clear and thin, boxes are used to classify information and the pictures are extremely important to show clear and reliable information. Partnership: Sabela Ros
  • MOON
    MOONMOON is a dance projection performance about the lunar cycle. The project is focused on exploring the connection between the visuals and the dancer in order to create a final piece where projections enhance the movements of the performer. From the beginning, my interest in doing this project was to work with the relationship between graphics and the body movement. As a dancer and a visual artist myself, I felt really attracted to experiment in that field. I wanted to explore the way we can use projections with the main purpose of generate an interaction among the dancers. I believe that designing a multimedia scenography is also about finding the balance between both elements. Dance by itself is so expressive that the performance does not need to be graphically overload. In my opinion, it works better when there is an equilibrated connection between them. The topic of the performance is based on the phases of the moon. When it represents the new moon, the dancer is on the floor and her movements are slower. The graphics are simple, darker and they are taking place around her. On the contrary, when it gets to the full moon stage the visuals are happening mostly on the centre of where she is, creating more complex shapes, brighter and faster. The final output of this project is a proposal for a bigger show and it presents a general overview of what it would look like.
Projects credited in
  • Cognitio Magazine
    Cognitio MagazineCognitio is a digital science magazine which is aimed at a non-specialized public. The magazine uses the interactivity that digital publishing offers in order to make science more understandable and entertaining. The articles that this magazine has are not focused only on one field of science but in many different fields, such as biology, maths, technology, medicine, physics or chemistry. The look and feel of this magazine is inspired by the accuracy and neatness usually associated with science.
Work history
    Internship
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Skills
  • Visual Arts
  • Silkscreen
  • After Effects
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Photoshop
  • Premiere
Education
    MA Graphic Moving Image
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    Graphic Design
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Awards
    16th European Newspaper Awards (Student)
    Project: Infographic about the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. http://blog.eina.cat/en/estudiants-guardonats-pels-seus-projectes-d-infografia/555357391211d6de05c38961