Edu Martínez Piracés is studying his last year in Graphic Design at Eina (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona). He has done internships in Stdin (Brussels) and in Folch Studio (Barcelona) and he is a member of the Open Source Publishing Collective. He feels comfortable carrying out experiments together with Marina Martínez in Hijos de Martín, where they explore processes, resources and tools in open source code.

At present, he works in Maceta, his final project of studies, in which the current editorial field is questioned by researching into collaborative models or new habits of reading, as well as tackling topics such as commons, authorship, plagiarism, public knowledge or print on demand.

Check Centre d'Estudis Macba, BYOB, Durruti Magazine, Loop 2.0, Lletraferida 126, Design a shirt, Merienda, En contra, Triangulo de Amor Bizarro, some mini-zines, Esperando a Godot, A la feina cap risc, The Journal or La Muntanya.

Centre d'estudis Macba is a proposal of re-definition of the Centro de Estudios y Documentación del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona s lobby. The project is originated by the change of the exhibition hall into an activity room by proposing interactive and horizontal activities, going for the digitalization and accessibility of the archive and the communication channels. Furthermore, a Community platform is offered to a collaborative design of the furniture for future activities. The centre's communication is based on the ambiguity of space and in the numerous activities than can converge resulting in a useful graphic system to inform about the type of activities, as well as where and when to find them. This project was made within an interdisciplinary team formed by Jessica Escanellas, Joan Marc Ferret, Raul Haro, Amadeu Ventayol and Marina Martínez.

Video screening at BYOB BCN. The animation plays with the idea of an archive to find the thirteen words which are not accepted by the RAE (Real Academia Española). The project was made together with Marina Martinez in Hijos de Martín. BYOB is an idea by Rafaël Rozendaal and is commissioned by Esther Miquel. You can see the result here.

Durruti is a biannual magazine about contemporary thought. By making a parallelism with the editorial intention of this magazine, proposal for non-lineal reading is presented. For that reason, a division of the content is created by grouping it in levels of reading (title, outstanding, image and text), where the reader could go into it in depth depending on its degree of interest thanks to a system of four-directional pagination in which is indicated the other levels corresponding to the article.

Loop 2.0 comes from thinking about the annoying things of the Internet. It is simply a game. Visit loop 2.0.

Lletraferida is the young writers in Catalan language association magazine. In Lletraferida, we boost the literary nature of the content where we develop a image's speech around the idea of "change" using images from Google Images. The project was made together with Marina Martinez in Hijos de Martín.

This is a proposal for designashirt.com redesigning and web positioning.

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En contra is a graphic retrospective of the trends that we are not taught in school. The project consists of four pieces –postmodernism, punk, situationism and existentialism– where the reading order is not linear and the typographic hierarchy is inverted.

Triángulo de amor bizarro is an experimental typography project using The Sims that deals with the appropriation of a video game graphic code as a social critic.

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Existentialism, the nonsense and the non-action. This project was done with Cris Serra.

A la feina, cap risc is a line of five posters submitted to the contest "Prevenció de riscos laborals" (Labour Risk Prevention). The series of posters focuses on the message, which suffers -in a metaphorical sense- a risk of each specific field. There is risk of burning-out (because of stress), of cutting oneself, of suffering back pain due to holding a bad position, of suctioning smoke and of stepping on sharp objects. This project was done with Rubén Gutiérrez.

The journal is a tabloid where visual pollution is rejected. This is achieved by avoiding unnecessary graphics and also by avoiding ranking with ornamental lines, color codes, background colors or typographical orgies. The result is an element that is hierarchized from white and from the font-size.

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