The project

An artistic graphic intervention, made as the final exercise of Graphic Architecture and Typography in the Master in Advanced Studies in Design at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. A way to understand Barcelona, the city that hosted the program.

Two intentions

1. 01 RememberKeep a few tragic events of the city in the collective memory: a spirit of overcoming, aware of what the past forged.
2. 02 HonourPay tribute to the victims of the events that shaped Barcelona, in an abstract and symbolic way.

11.09.1714

Eleven months of siege, and the city fell. In the Fossar de les Moreres, beside Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona remembers those who died defending it. A flame stands for them.

30.01.1938

Bombs fell on the square of Sant Felip Neri. Most of the dead were children, sheltering in the church. The wall kept every mark.

17.08.2017

A van drove down La Rambla, over the same tiles thousands walk every day. Some marks are not meant to be cleaned.

Cities heal. The marks stay.