José Alcázar is a London based graphic designer focused on typography, editorial design and visual language fields.
During and after graduating from Elisava Design School he has been busy working with Outro Studio, Ramón Carreté, Ruiz+Company and Mau Morgó, Mans O, Offset Studio designing, managing projects and arranging productions. He is also the founder of Sapien Press, a long-term personal project in progress focused on typography, editorial design and storytelling practices.
Even though he is always up to talk about new projects, exploring new disciplines, concepts and different approaches; his personal projects are a must, a way to have fun, to learn, to consider and to explore different fields between art and design with critical and responsible ethics.
Projects
- ReflexióReflexió is an experimental typography project that combines a mirror’s reflection with craft paper letters cut along one of their axes. The result are modular compositions that, once photographed, appear as 3D images. The project plays with this magic and visual contradiction to establish a connection between digital language and the analog world. By constructing letters on a mirror, new realities were created with the reflection, which are neither real nor false. With clearly playful intention
- Stockholm TypefaceStockholm is a brutalist modular typeface family inspired by industrial signage aesthetics and led lamps. The aim of this typographical system is to make accesible a legible signage during emergency situations, from the stencil style formed by three different weights plus italic and extended to the not stencil style. The structure concept is made of horizontal, vertical and diagonal modules; in other words from x to z coordinates, developing a full set alphabet by the sum of his modules, m
- New Typeface Vol. 1Have you ever wondered which typeface is best suited to your personality? New Typeface is an experimental typographic project between psychology and typography, it’s an exploration of the type making process where the anatomy of each typeface, its proportions and shapes, are not random facts. Every small detail is designed in order to represent the personal traits of a different person. Creating unique custom typefaces suited for each personality. Contributors NT Cavallieri Grotesk – José Alc
- Route. African Creative LaboratoryRoute is a social design and upcycling workshop in Senegal, Africa. The objective is to promote through the common language of creativity, a space where the African and around the world creatives share their knowledge and experiences. Route intended as a passage, a road. The word evokes an itinerant spirit and the sum of experiences that play part in shaping travels; in a certain way it means adventure. In order to face Africaness in an expanded sense, we created an inclusive narrative in dial
- 45th Laus Annual AwardsThe Laus awards honour the best design, art direction and visual communication campaigns of the year with a Golden Laus trophy. The campaign was haunted by the Golden Touch, a concept inspired by the Greek myth of King Midas, known for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. The cover disappears, making reference to the ephemerality of design. For a better comprehension of the project visit: Opening Campaign
- 123 4567 for Mans OThis video explores the riddle and aesthetic amazement that the crop circles that have appeared around the planet suppose as the track joins two concepts that always seem to collide: A unbreakable predefined order of fate and the free will that seems so apparent in our experience as humans. Both ideas merging with the help of the poly-metric geometry that both numbers seven and three create.’ 123 4567 is the first outcome of a video series. Videoclip link
Work history
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Junior designerRamon Carreté
- Barcelona, SpainFreelance
Branding, typography developing, artwork, art direction and editorial design.
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Branding & Type designerOffset Studio
- London, United KingdomInternship
Custom type developing and Branding
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Skills
- Typography
- Editorial Design
- Visual Communication
- Experimental Design
- Art Direction
- Storytelling
- Critical Design
- Print Design
- Graphic Design
- Adobe Indesign
Education
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Bachelor Degree of Graphic DesignElisava School of Design
- Barcelona, Spain
Editorial Design
Brand Design
Typography design
Concept developing
Culture & art
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IllustrationCollege of Arts and Crafts
- Zaragoza, Spain
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Awards
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Silver LausADG-FAD
Second position in the Student category.
Route: African Creative Laboratory
Route is a social design and upcycling workshop in Senegal, Africa. The objective is to promote through the common language of creativity, a space where the African and around the world creatives share their knowledge and experiences.