graphic design · art

FADBB / Festival de Arte y Diseño del Barrio del Boquerón

2023

FADBB festival poster photographed among salvaged materials

A neighbourhood art and design festival co-organised with Maneiras Café in Granada. I designed its identity and a poster system made to be intervened by hand.

FADBB was a neighbourhood festival of art and design co-organised in 2023 with Maneiras Café, then based at Mano de Hierro 15 in Granada’s Boquerón district. Murals, exhibitions and workshops moved between the café, nearby businesses and the surrounding streets. I created the festival’s visual identity and graphic material.

The posters worked as canvases. Their printed framework left an open area for hand intervention, so individual copies could be painted or drawn on before being placed around the neighbourhood.

FADBB programme poster listing murals, exhibitions and workshops — Poster system / illustrations by Sasa Estudio, Pablo Torralba and Bigotesucio

FADBB illustrated poster with a coral pink character — Poster system / illustrations by Sasa Estudio, Pablo Torralba and Bigotesucio

Intervened FADBB poster photographed among salvaged materials — Posters in the street

FADBB poster photographed beside a green industrial barrel — Posters in the street

The same type, colour and drawn gestures extended to the festival’s social graphics, tying the printed posters to the places and people involved.

FADBB graphic over a photograph of Maneiras Café — Festival graphics for Maneiras

FADBB graphic over a photograph of the café exterior — Festival graphics for Maneiras

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Painting moved from the poster to shutters and walls around Boquerón. These images document the collective work taking shape in the street.

Geometric mural painted on a local shop shutter

Artists beside painted shop shutters in Boquerón — Murals across the neighbourhood

Artist painting a flower on a neighbourhood shutter — Murals across the neighbourhood

Artist painting in front of a colourful shutter mural

Passers-by in front of a geometric wall painting — Painted walls and shutters

Artist working on a black-and-pink shutter mural — Painted walls and shutters

INSIDE MANEIRAS The café became a meeting point for exhibitions, conversations and graphic work. The festival also brought together artists, neighbours and visitors through a programme of open workshops.

Colourful textiles and seating inside Maneiras Café

Visitors looking at framed graphic artworks in the exhibition — Exhibition views

Visitors viewing two graphic artworks at Maneiras — Exhibition views

Visitors talking in front of the exhibition artworks — Visitors at Maneiras

Visitors sitting together at the exhibition — Visitors at Maneiras

Framed artworks on the wall during the FADBB exhibition

WORKSHOPS The programme invited people to make as well as look: poster design, lettering, screen printing, character design, crochet and autobiographical comics were among the activities.

Participants at the comics workshop in Maneiras — Comics workshop

Participants working together at a long table — Comics workshop

Two workshop participants looking through a printed book

IN THE PRESS The festival and the murals also appeared in Granada’s local press.

Newspaper feature about FADBB and the Boquerón neighbourhood — Local press coverage

IDEAL front page featuring the Boquerón murals — Local press coverage

Festival co-organised by Bigotesucio and Maneiras Café. Visual identity, poster system and graphic design: Bigotesucio. Poster illustrations: Sasa Estudio, Pablo Torralba and Bigotesucio. Murals, exhibitions and workshops: participating artists.

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