Ink Bad Company

Este verano hemos unido fuerzas junto a los talentosos amigos de Salmorejo Studio, para ilustrar al alimón el suplemento de agosto de Cinemanía: 31 pasatiempos de Ciencia Ficción. Nada mejor para pasar las apocalípticas dosis de calor mesetario, que un puñado de roboces y naves espaciales impresos en papel couché, mientras uno/a se apoltrona en la tumbona de playa.

Cliente: Cinemanía Magazine. Dirección de arte: Carmen Martín Arcos.

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This summer we have joined forces with our very talented friends at Salmorejo Studio. Together we illustrate a bunch of robots and spaceships for the Cinemanía's special sci-fi summer issue, one of leading film magazines in Spain.🖖 Live long and prosper, homies.

Este mes de julio abrimos la sección de “Core Business” para el número 86 de Forbes España, ilustrando un articulo de Daniel Entrialgo sobre cuando China adelantará por la derecha a EEUU como superpotencia económica mundial.

Cliente: SpainMedia. Dirección de arte: Juan Velázquez.

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We've illustrated the opening for the "Core Business" section in the issue 86 of Forbes Spain. An article by Daniel Entrialgo about when China will overtake EEUU as the world's largest economy.

La Consejería Cultural de la Embajada de España en Cuba nos encargo una pieza para su campaña: “Amor Por (Todos) Los Colores”. Una iniciativa para celebrar el fútbol y la diversidad sexual, uniendo a través de la gráfica el mes del orgullo LGBT y la Eurocopa 2021. Para ello han reclutado un team compuesto por ilustradores españoles y cubanos que se encargarán de aportar su particular visión del tema y aunar aficiones bajo, no un solo color, sino todos ellos.

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The Cultural Council of the Spanish embassy in La Habana asked us to make an illustration for their campaign: "Amor Por (Todos) Los Colores" (Love To [All] The Colors).

Peligro Press (anteriormente Workshop Madrid) es la editorial independiente y proyecto paralelo de los ilustradores Lola Beltrán y Pedro Oyarbide. Después de "Turboland" y "Full Fat", ahora publican su flamante nuevo fanzine: Megarides. 70 páginas llenas de color, bicicletas y traficantes de gráfica de primer nivel. Y por si esto fuera poco, 5 euros de cada venta irán destinados a Bicicletas sin Fronteras, una ONG dedicada a proporcionar bicicletas a niños senegaleses sin recursos, para que vayan al colegio y hagan cosas de niños, como debe ser.

Hemos tenido la suerte de formar parte de Megarides y esta es nuestra contribución, una pieza en honor a una de nuestras bicis de la infancia: la BMX de Paperboy, el arcade de Atari.

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Peligro Press is the mutation of Workshop Madrid, a independent publishing house runned and sweated by Lola Beltrán and Pedro Oyarbide. After "Turboland" and "Full Fat" now they publish his brand-new fanzine: Megarides. 70 full color pages stuffed with a pile of bike stories, illustrated by first class graphic dealers. And to top it off, 5 eur of each sale are aimed to Bicicletas sin Fronteras, a NGO dedicated to providing bikes to Senegalese kids with 0 resources, so they can go to the school and act like children, as it should be.

Serie de dibujos que hicimos para ilustrar una guía para Ole's, un albergue de pesca de salmón en un entorno natural envidiable en la costa oeste de Columbia Británica, Canadá.

Cliente: Ole’s Hakai Pass. Agencia: Blind. Dirección de arte: Emily Xie. Producción: The Mushroom Company.

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Drawing series we made to illustrate a guide for Ole’s, a fishing lodge for trophy salmon and halibutin in British Columbia, Canada.

Hemos ilustrado con este lettering la nueva campaña de Proximity para “El Gordo de la Primitiva” y Loterías y Apuestas del Estado.

Cliente: Loterías y Apuestas del Estado. Agencia: Proximity Madrid. Dirección creativa: David Vijil. Dirección de arte: José Luis Díez. Directora de producción: Gemma Selga. Producción: The Mushroom Company.

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We were asked by Proximity to make this lettering for the campaign launched to advertise one of the lottery games of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, a state-owned company, responsible of all types of lotteries and games in Spain.

"La nueva mano de obra: los séniors". Ilustración para un artículo de Natalia Hernández Rojo sobre la importancia de los trabajadores mayores de 50 años y el rol que deben jugar en esa cosa que llaman "el nuevo mercado laboral". En el número de diciembre de Forbes España, con Juan Velázquez (gracias por la confianza) a la dirección de arte.

Cliente: Forbes España. Dirección de arte: Juan Velázquez.

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We have been involved with this piece in the December issue of Forbes Spain. Concretely, we've illustrated an article by Natalia Hernández Rojo about the seniors and the role they should play in the new labour market. With the bossome art direction by Juan Velázquez. Thank you for trusting us, dude.

Hemos ilustrado la sección de “Opening Lines” para The Washington Post Magazine. Un articulo muy interesante de Michael J. Gaynor sobre como la sobrerregulación del gobierno estadounidense y las denuncias de algunos vecinos poco amistosos puede poner en jaque una tradición infantil tan inofensiva como los puestos de limonada callejeros.

Cliente: The Washington Post Magazine. Dirección de arte: Michael Johnson.

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We´ve had a lot of fun with this Illustration for the “Opening Lines” section in The Washington Post Magazine. Text by Michael J. Gaynor about how government overregulation coupled with the complaints of some "unfriendly" neighbors have resulted in cases of lemonade stands being shut down across the country.

Client: The Washington Post Magazine. Art direction: Michael Johnson.

12 inch vinyl artwork for Third Strike´s upcoming second album. "Second Round Madafakas!", recorded in Madrid (Spain), is another load of fresh choring punk rock made in the Sun Coast.

By second time, we repeated the experience to work together with them, since we already took care to illustrate their first album a couple years ago. We paid tribute (or at least we tried) to the great Jack Davis the first time. And for this cover we wanted to follow (more or less) our beloved R. Crumb in order to share our childhood frustration because we never had an Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.

Ha Tachana was the first railway station in the Middle East, serving as the terminus for the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway. Located beside the sea and operated from 1892 to 1948, today the station was restored and converted to an entertainment and leisure venue.

We made this summer postcard-souvenir on the occasion of our solo exhibition at Mixture Gallery, located at the old Jaffa railway station in Tel Aviv. "Greetings from Ha Tachana", from 28th June until the end of September, presented a selection of our personal and commercial work, including limited editions for sale.

Big thanks to Elli Sahar for the invitation; and specially thanks to my friend Roger Omar for a job well done curating this exhibition. Thanks for your patience too.

"My dream was that I opened my backpack and then green smoke started to coming out, I ran out when I saw it, I went to warn my parents but they weren't there. I raced to the kitchen and I put a rag on my mouth. Finally, the green smoke was a ghost, he wanted to get me. I grabbed the vacuum cleaner and I caught him, but when I wanted to open it he was gone”. (Anonymous/A Coruña, Spain)

We start 2019 with a “special” collaboration for 6dreams and Elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca. They have worked for years, touring schools along the world, and collecting the children's dreams. Then these are delivered to illustrators who give them their particular consistency in the shape of a beautiful edition of a leporello folded book. For the new issue (the 37th), illustrated by the great Jano, 6dreams have launched a crowdfunding, and asked to some cool illustrators as Chris Stygryt or Mik Baro, for hand-painting over a puzzle one of these dreams. We were invited to participate, and this happened when we dusted off our markers.

Click the link below if you want to get this original piece(s) or other bitchin´ rewards, and to support and learn about the campaign. BOO-YA homies!

Commissioned poster by Martini Spain, based on the the 60's graphic look. The campaign is a nod to the tradition and imagery created by Martini through their iconic posters  going over decades. Four illustrators and designers revisited the history of the brand in a new poster series.

We were invited to illustrate the 1961 year starting from a highlighted reference: Andy Warhol.

Workshop Madrid hits the road! What on earth is that? -you may well be asking. Created by the dream team formed by Lola Beltran and Pedro Oyarbide, Workshop Madrid is an astonishing new creative space in the town; focused on workshops, exhibitions, prints, books, zines, and really hot stuff. Turboland, their first shot -OUT NOW- is a 60 full-color page book containing romantic illustrated stories about the first beloved car. We're pretty thrilled and grateful to be part of this 27-cream-of-the-crop roster.

Here's our piece, the indestructible ´89 Land Rover Santana, accompanied in a double-page by an exclusive interview. You want to know the whole story?  

If one thing is to be said about Imborrable, and we could say many others, is that they love the paper. The Spanish stationery brand shows that in each of their notebooks. For that reason, when we were invited to take part of his newly released Arty collection we become very happy because we also love the paper too.

We have prepared a notebook cover fully loaded with surf, hot rod and weirdos.

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We have been out of this blog for a long long time. We do not like, and we want to fix it. So... here we go again then.

Summer ends; winter is coming. And we started the new season at Ink Bad Company. We promise a lot of cool stuff and shiny things. For that reason, we are setting up the machine with a little animation, inspired in the mail order gadgets from the old comic books advertising.