NEWS
October 19, 2011
Fábrica Mexicana picture gallery at PortaVoz
After last week's opening, mexican art, design and architecture blog PortaVoz has published an extensive picture gallery of the Fabrica Mexicana exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. In it they featured our 3 projects part of this exhibition, please head over to their website to check them out along other amazing works of mexican designers and studios.
View PortaVoz' Picture Gallery
Visit MAM's website for more information about the exhibition.
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October 13, 2011
Exhibition: Fábrica Mexicana at MAM
The Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City curated the exhibition "Mexican Design Factory" featuring Molcaware, Choose your bullets and the Mesas Arcanas made for last year's exhibition at ADN Gallery. It is a great recognition to be included in this important selection of Mexican design together with renown designers like Ariel Rojo, Eos México, Emiliano Godoy and other projects like Agent, Le Porc Shop, and Innovando la Tradición. The opening of "Fabrica Mexicana" will occur during Mexico City's Design Week and the exhibition will remain open until early 2012, so be sure to check it out.
More information and pictures coming soon!
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October 10, 2011
Plataforma: Designing Monterrey
This months edition of Plataforma Monterrey features Ictali in a spread dedicated to creative studios based in the city. I am excited to be part of this design special together with other young projects that range from graphic, branding and editorial design, to fashion and industrial design.
More about this article in the Press section
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July 29, 2011
Looking down the barrel of creativity at Core77
One of my favorite design blogs, Core77, has published Choose your bullets at their Flotspotting features. Titled "Jorge Diego Etienne: looking down the barrel of creativity", the post showcases several pictures of my design, as well as images of its production together with a nice reflection about its meaning.
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July 26, 2011
Architectural Digest Mexico: Young Talent
A profile about my work was been published at Architetural Digest Mexico August edition of the "Young Talent" section in the magazine. Projects like Molcaware, Choose your bullets, Mesas Arcanas and furniture concepts such as Corey and Chimuelo chairs were featured on this article titled "Creative Simplicity".
More about this article in the Press section
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July 22, 2011
Shooting into design: interview for Blanco Pop
Mexico's Blanco Pop online magazine has featured an interview titled "shooting into design" with some interesting questions about my past, present and future as a designer.
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July 13, 2011
Choose your bullets at NOTCOT
A post from medesignmag.com about Choose your bullets has been featured on NOTCOT.org, a popular user-generated content site among designers.
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July 8, 2011
First edition of Mesas Arcanas
Galería ADN sent some pictures of the first edition of our Mesas Arcanas before being shipped. This is the final design (chromed) of the prototype shown at the "Identity and Dialogue of Mexican Design" exhibition during 2010's Mexico City Design Week.
Read more about Mesas Arcanas here
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June 23, 2011
Travesias: mexican design guide
Mexico’s Travesias magazine has feature my profile at their Mexican Design Guide special written by curator Ana Elena Mallet. Designers and studios from different cities in Mexico such as Ariel Rojo, Cecilia Leon de la Barra, Eos México, Hector Esrawe, Omellete, Pirwi among others give a clear perspective of the design panorama throughout the country. It’s great to be included representing Monterrey’s design scene.
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May 30, 2011
Design from Mexico: the new generation
I'm excited to be featured at Codigo's special design edition along with young and talented designers (and friends) Moisés Hernandez, Ian Ortega, Joel Escalona, and Christian Vivanco. This interesting article showcases the work of 10 mexican designers under 30. Be sure to pick one up on your next visit to the magazine store!
Visit Revista Codigo's website here
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May 1, 2011
Desigboom features Choose your Bullets
One of the most popular and influential design blogs has just featured Choose your bullets.
Read Designboom's post here
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April 11, 2011
Celebrating 3 years of design addiction at designaholic.com.mx
My project Designaholic, a spanish speaking design blog, is turning 3 years old in April. To celebrate the event, I've invited designers, curators, promotors and people involved in the design business in Mexico and abroad to answer 3 simple questions about their work, opinion and vision of design for the next 3 years.
The "3 years of design addiction" special will run until the end of May, stayed tuned at www.designaholic.com.mx
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April 7, 2011
Spring is here!
The cherry tree blossom marks the beggining of spring season in Japan. For no more than a few days, Japan is painted pink and people rejoice doing hanamis, a picnic under the trees to enjoy this amazing time of the year.
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March 17, 2011
Cantera: Mexican Design Exhibition
CENTRO, school for design, film and television in Mexico City, has put together an exhibition titled "Cantera" where my design "Choose your Bullets" was featured. This exhibition shares CENTRO's ongoing investigation about Mexican Design, with the purpose of promoting the creative work being done by designers in our country. It will be open for all public for the next month at CENTRO.
More information about the exhibition at Designaholic
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March 24, 2011
Mesas Arcanas published at Habitat
Mexico's Habitat magazine has published a feature of the "Identity and dialogue of design in Mexico" exhibition at ADN Gallery where I participated with Mesas Arcanas.
More information on the proyect here.
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March 14, 2011
HELP JAPAN
Japan has been hit by a terrible earthquake and tsunami; please help by donating to these causes:
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
Everything is all right in Osaka, but our Japanese brothers in the Miyagi prefecture need our help.
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March 8, 2011
Konichiwa Osaka!
Just landed in Japan, ready for one month of intensive Japanese Language training before beginning the design program at the Kyoto Institute of Technology.. Interesting times ahead, stay tuned!
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February 25, 2011
Ofimodul Project: first prototype
After several months working on a new line of office furniture for Ofimodul, our first full-scale prototype is ready. Although we still have a long way to go, this is an exciting moment that marks the start of the next phase of the project.
Read more about the Ofimodul project here.
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February 20, 2011
Interview at Museo El MODO
The Museo del Objeto del Objeto (El MODO) in Mexico City has just published an interview where I talk about my work as a designer and blogger. El MODO is an interesting new museum that showcases the evolution of packaging and communication design in Mexico.
Visit the museum's website at elmodo.mx
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February 18, 2011
Higher Poetics Interview
The brand new english-speaking Higher Poetics lifestyle blog published an in-depth interview where I was asked about my work, design philosophy, and motivation.
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January 10, 2011
Two Months in Mexico City
During the months of January and February I will be temporarily staying in Mexico City studying Japanese as part of the preparation for my 8 month residency in Japan.
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January 7, 2011
Lecture at the American School of Tampico
I started off the year with a lecture for the High School students of the American School of Tampico (ATS) where I studied from PK till 10th Grade. It was a pleasure to give back to ATS by sharing my experience as a designer and to talk with the students about how much ATS shaped my character.
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December 20, 2010
Interview by Stilo Magazine
Monterrey's Stilo Magazine published a feature about my work as a designer and blogger.
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November 5, 2010
Going to Japan!
I have been selected by Mexico's Conacyt and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as on of 3 designers to participate in the Modern Design and Traditional Craftmanship fellowship program. From March to November 2011, I will be living and working in Japan developing a personal project at the Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Sayonnara!
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October 27, 2010
"ADN: Identity and Dialogue of design in Mexico" Exhibition
This exhibition was organized by Gallery ADN and exhibited during the Mexico City Design Week. I was selected as part of the group of twelve designers that were invited to pick an object of the gallery's vintage catalogue as inspiration to create a new piece of their own, creating a dialogue between old and new design in Mexico. My final design, the "Mesas Arcanas" is now being produced as a limited edition commercialized by the gallery. more information on their website.
More details about the exhibition at Designaholic.
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October 26, 2010
Talento Local exhibition at Design Week Monterrey
As part of CEDIM's Design Week Monterrey, Toc Toc curated "Talento Local" an exhibition about the work of young talents working in Monterrey. A special black edition of my Choose your bullets design and a prototype of “Molcaware” were selected amongst other projects by graphic, interior, fashion designers, architects, visual artists, and other creatives in this exhibition open to all public during the event.
More information about CEDIM's Design Week Monterrey at Designaholic.
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September 27, 2010
Corey concept exhibited at MUMEDI
My chair concept “Corey” for the "Transforma tus ideas con Corian" design contest was exhibited with the other finalists at the Mexican Design Museum (MUMEDI) in Mexico City.
More details about the event at Designaholic.
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August 24, 2010
Ictali exhibited at Guadalajara
The Ictali chair, designed in collaboration with Fernanda Flores, was exhibited as part of the finalists of the Dimueble design contest during the Expo Mueble furniture fair in Guadalajara.
More details on the event at Designaholic.
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July 4, 2010
Designaholic at Toc Toc's Open Mic Night
Last night I gave a brief lecture about my blog Designaholic at the Noches de Toc Toc's Open Mic. It felt great to share with others a retrospective of my project and the passion for design that fuels it. Thanks to Toc Toc for all the support and to everyone who attended the event.
More information about the event and other participants at Designaholic.
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May 4, 2010
Lecture at Tec de Monterrey
I was happy to give a couple of lectures to design students at the Tec de Monterrey by invitation from the teacher Xochitl Arias. In these lectures I got to share the current trends I spotted in my recent trip to Milan and a special lecture about designers not doing design as we know it.
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April 20, 2010
Blogging from the Milan Furniture Fair
For this year's Milan Furniture Fair I was invited by Inhabitat to be one of their correspondents hunting down the best sustainable projects by designers from all over the world. As always, the fair was a thrilling week of getting to know the latest from the worlds best companies and designers.
Besides blogging for Inhabitat.com (read all posts here), I did an extended feature for my blog Designaholic, read all about it here.
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March 6, 2010
Objectified Screening
Together with Toc Toc, Designaholic organized a free screening of Gary Huswitt's Objetctified. This is part of my blog Designaholic's ongoing effort to promote design culture in Monterrey.
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February 24, 2010
Choose your Bullets in stores!
My latest design, Choose your bullets, an aluminum penholder that empowers your decisions is now available in stores throughout Mexico and online stores for the United States and Japan.
More information about "where to buy" here.
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January 9, 2010
Molcaware awarded a Special Prize by Tupperware Brands Mexico
A year after winning a 3rd place at the design contest organized by Tupperware Brands Mexico with my “Molcaware” project, I was invited to visit their factory in Toluca. Besides an incredible tour through the factory lines, I was given a special prize due to Tupperware's interest in further developing my design for a possible market introduction in the future.
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October 25, 2009
ICSID Interdesign Monterrey "Design Avenue"
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) partnered with the Tec de Monterrey to organize an Interdesign Workshop held this past 11-23 of October in Monterrey. I was selected to participate with Designers that came from around the globe under the "Design Avenue" brief. After two intense weeks of fieldwork, concept development, the results were presented through renders and mockups that propose various solutions for Monterrey's transportation system. It was a pleasure to work with designers from all kinds of backgrounds and under the guidance of my team's project leader Ignacio Urbina Polo from Venezuela. You can read a detailed day-to-day summary at my blog Designaholic.
For more information please visit www.interdesignmty2009.com