September 25, 2011

Into Jebl: Graphic design inspired by Chefchaouen

 Spanish graphic designer and multimedia artist Javier Reta's digital collages are inspired from the two years he spent living in Chefchaouen, in Morocco's northern Rif region.

This series is entitled "Into Jebl" (Into the mountain).

Javier's collages draw from his "devotion to these mountain woman and their hard work," his curiosity with Arabic typography as graphic elements and his personal photography.

 
I love the juxtapositions here, the humor of everyday objects...

...as well as the way in which images of daily life, hard, burdensome, or banal, are translated into sharp graphic elements.
 An exhibit of Javier's work just opened at the Marita Segovia gallery in Madrid.


His photography is also quite stunning, veering towards the abstract.  See this series 'Blue & Orange.'

All images courtesy Javier Reta. For more of his work, visit his website or portfolio.