Emiliano Rodríguez
www.emilianorodriguez.com.ar
Graphic & Web Designer, Photographer | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brief Resume
I begun studing graphic design in 1995 in the Universidad de Buenos Aires and, at the same time, I had my first contact with the World Wide Web as I was contracted to develop teaching material for an Internet seminar. So my apprenticeship in graphic and in web design were both in parallel, at university I learned about graphic design and then I spent my free time applying those skills to web site development and user interface design by my own.
As my university studies advanced I started experimenting alternative ways of visual communication. I was sure that graphic design wasn´t only useful for companies to sale more but also it could be used with a social and ideologic conscience. As Tibor Kalman would say “money isn´t everything”. So I gather together with some other designers and communicators and worked on a magazine project called “DíceseDe”. We used monothematic issues as an excuse to analyze Argentina´s social, cultural and political reality, trying to approach each topic from different parallel points of view.
During year 2000, I experimented with photography in an intuitive and personal way to complementary my graphic design before undertaking some photography courses. Since then I have never stoped taking pictures, but what I like the most is to visually register the people and places I see while I´m traveling, another one of my big passions.
At the begining of 2002, after having worked in NetMinds New Media Group for about 5 years, I started dedicating myself to design as a freelancer. Now I´m currently working with agencies and companies from around the world including the USA, Canada, UK, Spain, Italy among others.
Projects
As I told you before I´ve been working for about 5 years in and argentinian new media company called NetMinds New Media Group and then with many agencies all around the world. Now for example I´m working in a Sony website for Latinamerica and doing some jobs for J3 Advertising (USA) and Pyromedia Studios (USA) among others. In the past I´ve done jobs for JVC Futurevision (UK), Nick Hall (UK singer and musician), Media8 Marketing (USA), Monterey Mushrooms (USA), Drop (Italy), among others. I´m looking forward to work on a travel photography project… I hope that something may come through soon.
Inspiration
I remember solving whole projects during the almost 45 minutes bus trips from my home to university and viceversa. I think it was because I was forced to stay seated (or sometimes standing) without anything else to do but watch all the people/images/situations that happened in front of my eyes. Many of those situations triggered in my mind solutions to things I couldn´t solve having spent lots of hours in front of my computer.
Favourite url’s for inspirations
Web Design:
www.netdiver.net, www.4efx.com.br, www.linkodromo.com.ar, www.linkdup.com, www.ultrashock.com, www.designiskinky.com, among others.
Photography:
www.fredmiranda.com, www.dpreview.com, www.pontosdevista.net, www.photo.net.
My Toolbox
Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Adobe Illustrator and my Canon D30.
Thanks Emiliano Rodríguez for having taken his time to make this interview with us
Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB
January 2006
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