Ya está la Navidad a la vuelta de la esquina. Un año más, se acerca la ilusión de desear un regalo X y la desilusión de recibir un regalo Z. Es ley de vida. Te dirán que estaba agotado. Que no había tu…
Madrid en bici
—La tendencia imparable
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16.11.2016
Hace unas semanas, Madrid se despertaba con un atasco monstruoso en el Día sin Coches. No nos sorprendió mucho. En el Día Mundial sin Tabaco, los fumadores tampoco se ahorran un solo pitillo. Cuando se trata de cambiar nuestros hábitos, solemos resistirnos hasta que resulta…
Cementerio de Marcas
—Identidades que formaron parte de la nuestra
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16.10.2016
Las marcas nacen, se reproducen y también mueren.
Por el camino, algunas de ellas se cuelan en el imaginario popular. Sus identidades visuales permanecen en los espacios físicos y mentales que habitamos, mezcladas con viejos recuerdos, anécdotas y experiencias.
Éstos son algunos de…
The Frame Lovers & Bloombees
—A day in TOS
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18.05.2016
Last Monday we had some friends from Bloombees filming our in-house interior decorator, Crazy Mary is here to stay!
Alvar Aalto
—Organic Architecture, Art & Design
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06.10.2015
Another treasure that surround our studio is the Caixa Forum Cultural Center. This month they bring to us one of the most important Finnish architects of his generation: Alvar Aalto. In this wide retrospective we can see buildings like the Paimio Sanatorium for tuberculosis, the Library of…
DecorAcción —Interior Design in Las Letras
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15.06.2015
Last weekend we had all neighbourhood surrounded by art and craft. They guys from DecorAcción made it this year again for sixth time, where they got all local design and art shops plus architecture and interior design students organised to give a vibrant weekend of shopping and artistic sighting to all of us.
As last year, a good bunch…
LetterPress Workshop —Learning the old school stuff
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11.06.2015
Not than long ago, we found next to the studio an old printers where they were selling some typography furniture. This is how we met José, a traditional printer with all the necessary equipment to produce some classical letterpress prints. We asked him if he could teach us and he was thrilled about the idea.
The whole TOS Team…
Photography Experiments —UV Lighting
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15.04.2015
Today has been a fun day! We’ve been running some photography experiments with the UV lighting to explore its possibilities illuminating various scenes. And here there are some of the results, coming soon our work with this exploration for Bigote Ballena.
Typographic Embroidery Tryouts —Belgrade Waterfront
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20.02.2015
Since we’ve created all 26th characters for this project, even thought we ended up using only two for our word mark, why not to give it a go and trying to actually produce the brand in real Slavic embroidery… why not? Yep, the process, as expected, was slightly tedious and, even though for some mystic…
Finishing Touches —Our new typeface: Punto
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07.02.2015
Punto is a simple monocase based on, as the good old Wim Crouwel would say, an exiting game where the grid sets the rules. Nine dots vertically and the mandatory of meeting all potential dots using horizontal, vertical and 45º diagonal lines were the bases of the fun. Whoohoo!
This is just the beginning. Stay tuned.