Studio and/or Agency
Since 2005 Aristu & Company has developed both design and communications projects in the commercial, social and cultural spheres, always seeking to use the right dose of creativity and aesthetics to enhance the messages
Due to the double profile of Javier Aristu as a graphic designer and creative director both disciplines are successfully worked on, often separately and sometimes also in the same assignment, as this dual approach allows the brand or product presence to be aligned with its narrative, achieving greater strength and coherence with fewer resources
& Company
The work process involves the clients from the very beginning because no one knows the product better than they do, and the goal is to carry out a tailor-made project
Used to dealing with direct clients, but also with marketing departments and even advertising agencies, a small and solid but flexible team allows to take on assignments of any type or size thanks to the regular association with other professionals, who join depending on the needs
Main Design Areas
Identity & Branding
Packaging
Posters & Covers
Web
Spatial Graphics
Editorial
Main Communication Areas
Print Campaigns
Audiovisual Campaigns
Art Direction
Creative Direction
Since 2005 Aristu & Company has developed both design and communications projects in the commercial, social and cultural spheres, always seeking to use the right dose of creativity and aesthetics to enhance the messages
Due to the double profile of Javier Aristu as a graphic designer and creative director both disciplines are successfully worked on, often separately and sometimes also in the same assignment, as this dual approach allows the brand or product presence to be aligned with its narrative, achieving greater strength and coherence with fewer resources
& Company
The work process involves the clients from the very beginning because no one knows the product better than they do, and the goal is to carry out a tailor-made project
Used to dealing with direct clients, but also with marketing departments and even advertising agencies, a small and solid but flexible team allows to take on assignments of any type or size thanks to the regular association with other professionals, who join depending on the needs
Main Design Areas
Identity & Branding
Packaging
Posters & Covers
Web
Spatial Graphics
Editorial
Main Communication Areas
Print Campaigns
Audiovisual Campaigns
Art Direction
Creative Direction
Selected Clients
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Brands & Companies
Aclara Lighting
Bacardi & Martini/Dewar’s
Barcelona Energia
Bodegas Ochoa
Carrefour
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
Chilevision/Festival Viña
Diageo/Justerini & Brooks
Distinto Films
Ediciones Enderiz
El Corte Inglés
Fresh Sound Records
Fundación Telefónica
Grupo Planeta
La Fábrica
Penguin Random House
Cultural & Social Institutions
Ajuntament de Barcelona
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Ayuntamiento de Pamplona-Iruñeko Udala
Associació de Dissenyadors Gràfics del Foment de les Arts i el Disseny ADG/FAD
Club de Creativos c de c
Fundación TPH
Photographic Social Vision/Star Photobook Dummy Award
United Nations
We Humans Are Together WHAT
Communication & Advertising Agencies
Alfil Negro Strategy
Anomaly
McCann Erickson
Ogilvy & Mather
SCPF
Smäll
Sra Rushmore
Tiempo/BBDO
Villarrosàs
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Brands & Companies
Aclara Lighting
Bacardi & Martini/Dewar’s
Barcelona Energia
Bodegas Ochoa
Carrefour
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
Chilevision/Festival Viña
Diageo/Justerini & Brooks
Distinto Films
Ediciones Enderiz
El Corte Inglés
Fresh Sound Records
Fundación Telefónica
Grupo Planeta
La Fábrica
Penguin Random House
Cultural & Social Institutions
Ajuntament de Barcelona
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Ayuntamiento de Pamplona-Iruñeko Udala
Associació de Dissenyadors Gràfics del Foment de les Arts i el Disseny ADG/FAD
Club de Creativos c de c
Fundación TPH
Photographic Social Vision/Star Photobook Dummy Award
United Nations
We Humans Are Together WHAT
Communication & Advertising Agencies
Alfil Negro Strategy
Anomaly
McCann Erickson
Ogilvy & Mather
SCPF
Smäll
Sra Rushmore
Tiempo/BBDO
Villarrosàs
Client Reviews
‘Direct and solid creative concepts together with a simple and powerful graphic formalization’
Olga Pérez Estrada
Communication Manager at Barcelona City Council
‘When I think of his work I think of something heavy, solid, profound, resounding, simple, indestructible. It is a very clear sensation, and very unusual. I think of Aristu and somewhere in my head Chillida appears. Also Japan’
Toni Segarra
Founder and Creative General Director of the advertising agency SCPF and the strategic consultancy Alegre Roca
‘Elegance in the manners, in disagreeing and accepting opinions, elegance in the final outcome: a campaign that contributed, no doubt, to exhibition on Stanley Kubrick being the success that was’
Susana Fernández Alonso
Communication Manager at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
Press
Interview at Dopler, Argentinian design news agency, on the occasion of the membership in the Jury of El ojo de Iberoamérica
Interview in the book ADG Laus 2023, on the occasion of the Companies and Entities Award granted to the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
Specialization
‘Specialization tends to limit the range of questions that concerns the specialist. A generalist learns from one specialist and from another, while neither of them has considered why something happens here and also there. So the generalist gets into more genuinely human issues, one could say than specifically cultural’
Joseph Campbell
Writer and Professor of Literature
‘Direct and solid creative concepts together with a simple and powerful graphic formalization’
Olga Pérez Estrada
Communication Manager at Barcelona City Council
‘When I think of his work I think of something heavy, solid, profound, resounding, simple, indestructible. It is a very clear sensation, and very unusual. I think of Aristu and somewhere in my head Chillida appears. Also Japan’
Toni Segarra
Founder and Creative General Director of the advertising agency SCPF and the strategic consultancy Alegre Roca
‘Elegance in the manners, in disagreeing and accepting opinions, elegance in the final outcome: a campaign that contributed, no doubt, to exhibition on Stanley Kubrick being the success that was’
Susana Fernández Alonso
Communication Manager at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
Press
Interview at Dopler, Argentinian design news agency, on the occasion of the membership in the Jury of El ojo de Iberoamérica
Interview in the book ADG Laus 2023, on the occasion of the Companies and Entities Award granted to the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
Specialization
‘Specialization tends to limit the range of questions that concerns the specialist. A generalist learns from one specialist and from another, while neither of them has considered why something happens here and also there. So the generalist gets into more genuinely human issues, one could say than specifically cultural’
Joseph Campbell
Writer and Professor of Literature
Memberships
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Member of the Advisory Committee at Star Photobook Dummy Award, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at El ojo de Iberoamérica Awards, Buenos Aires
Member of the PFC Court at Eina School of Art and Design, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at c de c Spanish Creativity Yearbook, Madrid
Member of the Board of Directors at ADG/FAD, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at Laus Awards, Barcelona
Teaching
![Talking about the importance of the work process at LCI Barcelona, with the invaluable help of Stanley Kubrick]()
Professor of Art Direction at Barcelona School of Creativity
Professor of Art Direction at Pompeu Fabra University
Mentor of Final Degree Project at Bau Design College of Barcelona
Professor of Graphic Communication at Bau Design College of Barcelona
Member of the Advisory Committee at Star Photobook Dummy Award, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at El ojo de Iberoamérica Awards, Buenos Aires
Member of the PFC Court at Eina School of Art and Design, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at c de c Spanish Creativity Yearbook, Madrid
Member of the Board of Directors at ADG/FAD, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at Laus Awards, Barcelona
Teaching
Professor of Art Direction at Barcelona School of Creativity
Professor of Art Direction at Pompeu Fabra University
Mentor of Final Degree Project at Bau Design College of Barcelona
Professor of Graphic Communication at Bau Design College of Barcelona