
EdFramed season 1
Published online daily from November 21, 2011 to January 14, 2012
55 comic strips | B&W
55 comic strips | B&W
I did the logo for my own comic strip because I didn't had money to hire anybody else.
It's a long time I know Atxu and Marta and I have done many thing with them in the past but this year I was teacher assistant in their first year DAI 1 class that was centered on the shuffling dancing movement that was hitting hard at the time. We decided the best and most easy and open way for students to share their works with each other and with anyone interested outside the class as well as the most efficient for the teachers to track their work, was creating a blog. It's nothing fancy but it worked pretty well, I think.
As AA&NN was yet undefined as a company we decided that by now it was good to play with the design of the companies that we liked. So we took the first A is from NASA, the next A from AUDI, another A this time from AKIRA. Then an N from NOKIA a D from iPod and finally two N's, the first one from NINTENDO and the second one from SONY.
This blog is basically an on-line manifestation of the way I have been organizing my works and references for a long time in my analog and digital life. I started to visualize this project in a more clear way after the end of year 2007 when I founded AA&NN with my brother during the WEST OF THE MOON / EAST OF THE SUN project in Madrid Architecture School.
The concept behind the proposal was, not only a tribute to Jorge Oteiza and to make small replicas of his well known 'Laboratorio de Tizas' (chalk laboratory) with parts of broken or used Silestone pieces, but to urge, specially the children, to play creating spacial figures an vacuum with the malleable white chalk and why not, with the colorful small hard Silestone parts.
The proposal consisted in using the Silestone boards one after another creating a colorful continuous surface inspired by a famous soda brand.
Launched in March 2011, this project went from various stages of design until the launch of its Frozeen page in August 2014. We conveniently accommodated there the translated comic works and we have continued using LainoMehe's website and its facebook page for more text centric entries and also, to post, link and share every time we translate to Basque and publish a new comic. A thing that happens less often than we would like.WHAT IS LAINO MEHE?
It was really exhausting recording all this with a single camera. I was running up and down the streets to make the best shots possible by myself, with camera on hand, with no tripod and even my camera is really light, by the end of the day my wrist fall apart. Then when I went back home and check for the clips I realized some had some audio issues due to the loud music. That and my already oldie HP6710b laptop make me leave the video unedited for a long time. It was not until I got an Apple Macbook Pro that I finished editing it. Definitively next time I have to find a real crew to do a work like this.
After six months outside the architecture school, I came back for the first days of classes of the second semester and my friends and professors Atxu Amann and Marta Maiz were there organizing a crazier than ever commencement class for DAI2. I was luckily there to shoot it and I end up editing this video featuring the awesome music composed composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for David Fincher's latest movie: The Social Network.
Juliette, Constance and Giulia were so generous for letting me record their private conversations while having breakfast in Alpina 11 where we were living as interchange students in Mexico. All the credit its theirs...I just, was there.
Meeting an anime director as relevant and busy as Satoshi Kon in person is something that you are lucky if happens to you once in a life time, and a privilege if you are not even living in Japan. Luckily Satoshi Kon accepted the invitation to this year's Animadrid and I had not only the opportunity to meet him, but also pick up one of his books I owned and ask for a signature. He did a beautiful drawing of Chiyoko in his book KON'S TONE. Today, four years later is sad to read that he passed away because of a cancer at the young age of 48; in the maturity of his creative career. I would never expect that. I guess, sometimes we think that the people we admire will live forever as their works will, but then the reality hits us every now and then. Rest In Peace Satoshi Kon.
The organization of Solar Decathon promoted a video competition so Rodrigo Delso, Javier Argota and I, came up with a simple idea; we went on location to see what was happening there. Even the joke was funny and the execution pretty poor, we ended up winning the first prize.
My friend Luis Mesejo called me one afternoon asking for help in creating a bunch of videos for Sweet Life Society so I help him out making one of them. I did the video the day the iPhone 4 was presented and as I was watching Job's key note, I came up with the idea of using the factory footage featured on it. When you use quality footage the quality stands out.
This was the third proposal presented to the STOY competition. I thought...What better than edible toy?, you can play a bit with it and once you get tired you can always eat it if you are hungry...
Rodrigo came up with this idea of reusing an old PC keyboard and transform it in a popular educative game 'cifras y letras' (numbers and letters). He turned apart all the pieces and painted vocals with one color and consonants with another, duplicating many of them. We din't have numbers so we call it 'teclas y letras' (keys and letters). We belived that the game was perfect for children because keys stand in their place even if you shake the board, what make us thought that would be perfect for earthquake situations...
Javier Argota developed this idea of a dodecahedron as a puzzle that children could build with a rope followings the chronology of their actions throughout the day. Sleeping, eating, playing etc. The name is a mix of the words día (day) and Dodecaedro (dodecahedron).
We worked on a project for a couple of weeks together with students from the British AA School around the city of La Habana in Cuba, after their research of a whole semester. After an intense week of work, we concluded that the key point to start fixing the whole country was that the cuban citizens have to start fixing the windows of their houses, as a metaphor of fixing their operating system... In this video it came after that project, I thought that I had to do the same with my own life. Fix my O.S.
Miguel Beloqui was in charge of making this tribute video, so once he collected all the videos from the people in various formats an qualities, we managed to find a way to merge them as a single unit. I had an old TV and an old Apple powerbook laptop at home and Guillermo Fernandez had another old TV, so we three and Iñigo Cornago, met at my house and we edited this video. We had some good laughs!
These two prototypes were created using plumbing plastic pieces as a tribute to Nintendo’s emblematic plumber brothers Mario and Luigi.
The competition was about reusing Silestone's discarded pieces and making something with them. I made a big exclamation mark out of Silestone's materials catalog that covered the poster entirely to draw the attention of people so they would read the contest rules and participate. They liked the idea so much that they made T-shirts with this design for this year and the upcoming years contest.
I met Jose Luis Vallejo in Madrid Architecture School where I was studying at the time when he was teaching there. When the semester ended he offered me a one month internship in his office developing this model that later became a real building.To learn more visit: https://aaandnn.com/design/plaza-ecopolis/
This years rules were to create a temporary basement in the Caiman islands and put there all the politicians of the world so that they would fix the economical crisis that we were suffering... so for a utopian proposal what better than a hyper-realistic solution. Laura was from Vigo so we thought that the ship could be produced there creating lots of jobs in the area. Then it would go around the world picking up the politicians to finally settle down in the Caiman island we all together they would resolve all the worlds problems (?)...Then of course the ship woul be reused as a luxury transatlantic. We didn't have much time to createa a hyper-realistic looking drawing of a transatlantic so we just took an amazing drawing by Stephen Biesty from his Incredible Cross-Sections books and ripped it out. If we had won we would have send a check to Mr Biesty. But that, sadly, didn't happen.
I had a great time working with Iñigo Cornago creating the menus and introductory motion graphics for each of the ten videos collected in this DVD.Official Site: http://www.bienaldecanarias.org/
MMOT stands for 'Madrid Malaga Oñati Touch', the first three are the places of residence of the driving forces behind the project and 'Touch' refers to the project that consisted on a touch screen interface and was developed entirely y Aaron Busca and designed externally by me. We were awarded with a mention for the project idea and receive some special classes on how to create a company but we where not able to collect enough money to continue its development so MMOT disappeared after a few months of its creation.To learn more about the device visit: https://aaandnn.com/lab/begigorri
The idea was to remake the classic Olympic rings with the championship acronym {IX. Euskadiko Unibertsitate Kirol Txapelketa}.
Atxu Amann asked me to record this action that the first year architecture students in DAI 1 class have been preparing for many weeks as a tribute to Javier Seguí, professor in the Ideation Department that is retiring soon. The performance consisted in picking one of the many small drawings Javier usually draws in his notebooks and translate it in to a huge matrix of 8 by 8 DIN-A0 size boards and dance with them.
I thought it would be cool to confront the opinions of a randomly chosen woman's at the street with the first results given by google at the same time, at the same place.