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Juliette Foxtrot / Identity - Packaging

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Juliette Foxtrot is a craft beer produced in Córdoba, Argentina, which is part of the Bravante family of craft beers.

Each beer style represents a fictional character related to maritime codes and the sea. In this case, Juliette represents a mermaid, with a French style of illustration and composition, directly related to the feelings of its flavour.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Alvaro Picca

Córdoba, Argentina (2017)

La Kitchen / Concept Development - Illustration - Packaging - Revamp

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Inspired by the traditional aesthetics of the Parisian boulangerie, adapted to the particular and beautiful local culture of the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.

This new identity tries to combine the transparency and honesty that exists in its products and experiences, from a sincere and fun design.

Everything is related to the "mix", to the handmade, to an attitude of disruption against the established, and to a non-graphic identity full of content that makes its public, true fans.

A multi-logo strategy combined with handmade acrylic illustrations by the brilliant Gabriel Sciutto continues the idea of brand expression.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Illustration: Gabriel Sciutto
Photo: Malena Fradkin

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023)

El Mensaje / Graphic Design - Packaging

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Sometimes it's not about front or back labels, or the size of the logo (if it has one) or the aesthetics. Sometimes it's about emotions.

"El Mensaje" is a limited edition of 80 bottles of a high rated blend wine produced in Mendoza, Argentina, in a special (maybe dramatic) harvest.

During the night, after a day of harvesting, the group in charge of the project suffered an armed robbery, the movie kind of robbery if you are asking. One of the members managed to send a Whatsapp message, warning his friends who were not in the farm about what was happening. Thanks to this message, the police were on the scene and only material losses were reported.

The design tries to represent the whole story in a single image: that moment when everything falls apart, plates, food and glasses fly through the air, and it seems to happen in slow motion. The copy of one of the labels keeps the way of speaking that we usually use to describe a bad situation.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Photo: Pablo Gasparini / Stefanía Paz

Mendoza, Argentina (2021)

Feria / Illustration - Packaging

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Feria juices are part of a sub-brand of market products and food produced by Cafería. Feria keeps the main elements of Cafería's identity, with the particularity that the characters show urban situations representing the brand concept without referring to the product. This graphic system allows labeling any type of products preparing the sub-brand to be marketed in other shops.

The intention of Feria is to bring local and healthy products to a new audience, inside and outside the coffee shop, adding value to the main brand.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Derio Ilari

Córdoba, Argentina (2021)

La Ventana / Packaging - Revamp - Type

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La Ventana is a specialty coffee shop located in the heart of Buenos Aires. Its new graphic identity seeks to celebrate not only the aesthetics, but also the spirit and emotions of the traditional cafés and confiterías found in the city’s iconic neighborhoods.

In recent years, many specialty coffee shops in the city have aimed to differentiate themselves from traditional establishments, both in terms of product and visual identity, often leaving aside the rich heritage of Buenos Aires’ café culture.

La Ventana strives to offer the best possible product and service meanwhile seeking the feeling of nostalgia and character of everyday local restaurants and cafés.

The new identity draws inspiration from the traditional graphic styles of Buenos Aires’ neighborhood gastronomic venues. Not from the large, well-known brands, but from the authentic local spots—those with intricate logos, dense typography, and a few artistic liberties. This visual approach seeks to capture the charm of these places, blending them into a design that feels both authentic and contemporary.

The new graphic identity not only represents La Ventana itself, but also pays tribute to traditional venues, conveying the idea that new influences can embrace the existing culture to create something unique.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Animation: Mauricio Gallegos / Martín Cañadell
3D Development: Martín Cañadell
Photo: Malena Fradkin

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2024)

Tallo / Identity - Packaging - Type

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Tallo is a local brand of cold-pressed juices produced in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The graphic idea represents a flower or a fruit instead of the stem itself (Tallo), which brings naturalness to the brand.

The colors of these juices are vibrant and pastel at the same time. The labeling palette vibrates in both directions, to create a fun environment focused on highlighting the main color of the juice.

In addition to a bold geometric logo, the design contains small lineal illustrations to represent the ingredients. This aesthetic is a reference to the drawing of the daughters of the brand's creators.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Photo: Rocío Fernandez Charro

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022)

Rojo / 3D - Animation - Revamp - Type

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ROJO is a visual effects, post-production and colour grading studio working for films, TV series and commercials, based in Buenos Aires, working all over the world.

This company works with a large number of studios and collaborators, at different stages of an audiovisual project. In other words, they are always part of a team that is bigger than themselves.

This new logo tries to represent that connection in a very strong and aesthetic way, showing a lot of personality without the need for an elaborate graphic system.

The Rojo logo is big, bold and black. The background colors of the identity change all the time, whether they are video images or textures of real elements.

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022)

Blurr / Naming - Revamp

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Blurr is a new independent film production company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The company tries to tell stories focused in an alternative and emotional way, outside the mainstream.

The narrative of "The Tunnel". Connecting a story with the audience, moving from one point to another, is usually represented by a bridge. In Blurr, this connection happens symbolically through a tunnel; a subaltern and different path. This new form appears throughout the graphic system, as a seal of a different and unique way of storytelling.

Graphically, the icon emerges from the oval shape of the mountain tunnels, together with a 16:9 horizontal rectangle representing a movie screen.

This new shape is displayed in dynamic layouts and static patterns, and alongside compositions inspired by the graphic art of credit titles.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Animation: Martín Cañadell

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023)

La Kitchen Illustrated / Art Direction - Illustration

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These illustrations by Gabriel Sciutto tries to represent the essence of LA-KI; a handmade product, with dedication, love and time, and a close service.

The idea builds a universe of situations related to coffee and its products, focusing on people and their interaction with the place.

The main aesthetic of the illustrations allows to generate a context in which details and hidden messages take centre stage, making these pieces, small stories of the daily life of LA-KI.

These works are a main part of LA-Ki's Revamp project. Today they are exhibited in communication pieces, shops, products and merchandise.

Art Direction: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Illustration: Gabriel Sciutto

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022)

Apelie / Identity - Type

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Apelie is a new company that builds robots that help to solve multi-area problems. The team has the ideas, the tech, and the knowledge to create new robots for custom problems.

Inspired by the car brands that put an icon in front of the vehicle and the name on the back the project starts with the development of an entire typography, using the same main shapes to do the icon and the logotype. The rest of the system is based on grids that let the brand create many communication parts, digital, and print.

Part of this design project work on the final art of the aesthetic of the robots with 3D design and direction.

The identity navigates between old and new feelings, some nostalgia, binary language and symbols, and new ways to show it up. The inspiration for those feelings were Nasa, Nintendo, Star Wars, that kind of sensations summed up in this last thought; "let's make robots fun again, like when we were kids"

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Animation: Martín Cañadell

Córdoba, Argentina (2022)

Giordana / Identity - Packaging

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Giordana is an olive oil brand located in La Rioja, Argentina. The aim was to highlight the product on the store shelf with a color palette and a modern design based on typography.

The label prioritized the type of varietal over the brand, due to the positioning of the word Extra Virgin in the category. This was done by means of a two-color typographic game that highlights the added value of the product.

Giordana currently sells it in the Argentinean market and in some Mercosur countries, without undergoing any modification to the original design from 2014.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Photo: Alvaro Picca

La Rioja, Argentina (2014)

Cielo Argentino - Juegos Olímpicos Tokio 2020 / Animation - Graphic Design - Type

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There is nothing more important for an athlete than the Olympic Games and there is almost nothing further away from Argentina than Tokyo. The pandemic context made it impossible for people to cheer on the athlete in this edition.

The purpose of this design was to bring that missing ovation to the stadium, converted into something that travels in the plane's luggage and represents the spirit of Argentina.

This T-shirt was designed from real photos of the Argentinean sky, taken by athletes from all the provinces of the country with their phones. The photos were processed to form a pattern that unifies them into a single design, which more than a design, is a breath, which is born in the sky and felt in the chest, and if you get a little closer, it says: ¡Vamos Argentina!

Bondis Porteños / Editorial - Graphic Design - Illustration

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Bondis Porteños is an illustration project based on the synthesis and graphic interpretation of the public transportation system of the City of Buenos Aires.

Like a constant show of colors, patterns and typographies, these huge rectangular canvases generate a landscape where diversity reigns in a medium where normally the opposite happens, turning the streets into a public event of a very particular and "Porteño" design, which brings together styles and graphics from many different periods and contexts in a single moment.

A variety difficult to explain and normalize that deserves to be contemplated in each corner, like a painting in movement, an unfinished work that for some reason represents the chaotic and the beautiful that things can be in such a special city.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Alvaro Picca

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019)

Personal Pay / 3D - Animation - Titles

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This 3D work and animation was our contribution to the last Personal Pay TV commercial. Personal Pay is the first digital wallet of Personal, a mobile company from Argentina. The main concept of all of this was; if you use this app, you are going to save some Mango, Pasta, or Guita, all different ways to say money in an Argentinian vibe.
These three words had to have the correct feeling within 3 seconds of appearance. We tried to play with the texture of a well-cooked spaghetti, the shapes, and colors of a mango, and the aesthetic, (made from a real photo) of a wad of Argentinian notes.
We work on every detail of the construction of each word for so many hours to finally display it in a very short moment of the commercial, and we love that.

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022)

Hol Management / Identity - Type

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Hol Management is a company that provides wellness tools to companies and individuals based on astrology as the main pillar and other holistic techniques such as meditation, mindfulness, yoga, constellations, among others.

The dynamic identity represents the different areas of the brand through portals that open to a new world of energy and information that can help people and companies to be better. Each icon is a portal, and together, they create a super dynamic system that prepares this new brand for any possible scenario.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja

Córdoba, Argentina (2018)

WIP / Animation - Identity - Type

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WIP is a cultural venue that combines architecture, design, photography and art. Its concept, like its name, has to do with the creative process as a state of continuous search.

Its identity moves representing the before, during and after of a creative process, and also, the interaction of different disciplines in the same place.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos

Córdoba, Argentina (2018)

Taste My Aruba / 3D - Animation - Illustration

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Taste my Aruba by Mauri's honeymon souvenirs. “During my honeymoon, leaving aside I realized the amount of stimuli and objects saturated with messages that try to tell what happens on a tourist island, compressed into small souvenirs.

The point is that any object, regardless of its functionality, can transform you into a souvenir, and for it to be from here, and not from there, you have to imbue it with some sort of identity. An identity that is a mix of many things. A keychain that represents a swordfish, that can also uncork beers, that also says Aruba, just to start.

This idea was in my mind, and together with the team, as if we had nothing else to do, we tried to give it the form of animated gifs and 3D”.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
3D & Animation: Martín Cañadell

Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023)

Bemvindas / Concept Development - Editorial - Identity

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Bemvindas is a housing project located in San Juan, Argentina. Beyond its architectural quality, the six duplexs are connected to each other from one street that becomes a public space, increasing the meters and the private garden of each house; a “welcome / bemvindo” space, especially for the category of homes to which Bemvindas belongs.

The application of the logo in pattern is a direct reference to the visible brick screening that the whole project looks like. This identity seeks to highlight the materials and the general idea of ​​the project from sincerity and details.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Derio Ilari
Architecture: Estudio Montevideo

San Juan, Argentina (2019)

Yema / Identity - Naming

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Yema is an experimental clothing project based on expression as the main concept. Expression consists of two parts, a visible and an invisible side. The name is an adaptation of an Argentinian terminology that means "to have courage".

This concept runs through the whole brand. Graphically, the idea of crossing out elements allows to generate varied pieces with a double reading, narrative and aesthetically.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja

Córdoba, Argentina (2017)

Plantario / Concept Development - Identity - Naming - Packaging

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Plantario is a plant-based brand that makes burgers with local ingredients and recipes inspired by different parts of the world. The name is a combination of Spanish words meaning; a planet full of plants.

The narrative is around the concept of responsible consumption. It is impossible to save the world by making vegan burgers, but it could be the first step in a series of changes that could help keep the planet alive a little longer.

The packaging tries to be as environmentally friendly as possible, taking into account the nature of the product.

"PLANTARIO is an idea that respects the planet, from the food we eat to the small habits that contribute to the cause. Moving to the right side is the main idea, the side that helps the planet. It's not perfect and it's not going to happen tomorrow, it's going to take time, but we have to start at some point and if a vegan burger is given a chance it's going to be a starting ceremony or a historical event, all the work will have been worth it.

Team: Gastón Garcia Aja / Mauricio Gallegos
Photo: Alvaro Picca

Córdoba, Argentina (2020)

Bravante / Illustration - Packaging

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Bravante is one of the rising craft beer brands of Córdoba, Argentina. After selling on draught to bars, it decided to market its beers in cans at different points of sale such as supermarkets and wine shops.

The idea tries to represent the personalities of each beer with a character, in a modern and fun way, differentiating the aesthetics of these packs from the rest of the main identity.

The brand had a classic and rustic feel to it. In these new labels, a system and a graphic code show around to turn things down and display a whole new world of possibilities, ready to use for these, and the next beers.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Rocío Fernandez Charro

Córdoba, Argentina (2016)

Artistic Memes / Graphic Design

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Artistic Memes is a project that reinterprets memes based on artistic movements from around the world throughout history, materialised in poster format.

Using purely digital techniques, four posters have been designed with their respective memes that attempt to encompass Neo-Expressionism (Painting: "Trolsquiat"), Post-Impressionism (Painting: "Van Harold"), Cubism (Painting: "Rollasso Safe") and Dadaism (Painting: "Kurt Chloe, on display).

This project will continue when memes and art crash again.

Design: Mauricio Gallegos

Córdoba, Argentina (2020)

Caferia / Concept Development - Identity - Illustration - Naming

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Cafería is the combination between a specialty coffee shop and a fresh market sale from a local fair, located in Córdoba, Argentina. This identity reflects an urban spirit that represents a happy and relaxed consumer situation.

The graphic identity was inspired by the stamps used on take away cups, using their color and finish details to complete the rest of the design pieces.

A simple and dynamic system, made up of well-contrasted fonts and coffee cups characterized in everyday situations, try to generate a cheerful and easy-to-use brand, with a lot of strength in its name, and all the doors open for possible franchises.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Alvaro Picca

Córdoba, Argentina (2020)

Flia / Concept Development - Identity - Naming

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Flia is a multi-purpose container open to all kinds of events, training, workshops and talks in different areas, which support local talent and culture and aim at the social development of the city Córdoba, Argentina.

Its identity represents the classic rectangular shape of containers. This idea is found in the formation of the letters of the logo, and in the whole graphic system.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Architecture: Jarq

Córdoba, Argentina (2019)

Camporo / Packaging - Revamp

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Camporo is a grape farm located in San Juan, Argentina, one of the best places to grow grapes in the country. Much of its production is marketed in different parts of the world.

The graphic design focuses on generic images and feelings about the naturalness, freshness and quality of the fruits, so that they can be received even in countries that do not speak the same language.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja
Photo: Alvaro Picca

San Juan, Argentina (2021)

Georo / Graphic Design - Revamp

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Georo is a developer and construction company focused on the architecture and design of its projects, based in San Juan, Argentina.

Its main attribute is its versatility when it comes to carrying out projects and works at different levels and scales.

The redesign of its identity represents the evolution of the company, the idea of the future and the versatility to adapt to any context, in a simple and dynamic way, in a modern language prepared for new platforms.

Team: Mauricio Gallegos / Gastón Garcia Aja

San Juan, Argentina (2020)