Amigos, Disfraces 

y Comunas

Amigos, disfraces y Comunas “Friends, Costumes and Communes” is an historical essay that covers from the French Revolution to the Arts and Craft movement, studying the first type of modern artistic collectivism, which lays the foundations for the artistic collectives of the 20th and 21st centuries: the so-called brotherhoods of artists, groups whose practice aims to unite the vital and creative project, trying out other ways of understanding affections and identity as something shared.

For the cover design of this book a bunch of classical elements are arranged in a contemporary attitude, communicating in a visual way not only the specific historical moments, but also how these past times have shaped our present. Thus the cover illustration shows an old group of artists making a triangle composition, as a pyramid, widely used in the French Revolution. The typeface also points to a classical French didone, with the main title building a semicircular arch, the quintessence of Neoclassical architecture, that at the same time—and strangely enough—, applied to a type composition embodies applied to a type composition embodies a contemporary graphic paradigm.