Approach & Services
Aristu & Co offers graphic design, art direction and creative direction services, especially for identity and communication projects in the commercial, social and cultural sectors. Of course this includes logos, identity systems, posters, covers, packs, books and websites, as well as print or audiovisual campaigns, and virtually any visual piece intended to convey a message
After more than a decade of experience at leading design studios and advertising agencies —two disciplines that often enrich each other—, in 2005 Javier Aristu opens his own studio with the goal of striking a balance between strategy, creativity and design: how to reach the audience, how to do so in a special way and how to transmit the message properly
The meaning of ‘& Co’ changes in late 2025, shifting from representing the colleagues, collaborators and clients credited in a project to referring to companies, agencies and production firms with which to work as a freelancer
Main Design Services
Identity & Branding
Packaging
Editorial
Posters & Covers
Web
Spatial Graphics
Main Communication Services
Print Campaigns
Audiovisual Campaigns
Art Direction
Creative Direction
Aristu & Co offers graphic design, art direction and creative direction services, especially for identity and communication projects in the commercial, social and cultural sectors. Of course this includes logos, identity systems, posters, covers, packs, books and websites, as well as print or audiovisual campaigns, and virtually any visual piece intended to convey a message
After more than a decade of experience at leading design studios and advertising agencies —two disciplines that often enrich each other—, in 2005 Javier Aristu opens his own studio with the goal of striking a balance between strategy, creativity and design: how to reach the audience, how to do so in a special way and how to transmit the message properly
The meaning of ‘& Co’ changes in late 2025, shifting from representing the colleagues, collaborators and clients credited in a project to referring to companies, agencies and production firms with which to work as a freelancer
Main Design Services
Identity & Branding
Packaging
Editorial
Posters & Covers
Web
Spatial Graphics
Main Communication Services
Print Campaigns
Audiovisual Campaigns
Art Direction
Creative Direction
Commercial Clients
Adidas
Bacardi & Martini/Dewar’s
Barcelona Energia
Bodegas Ochoa
Bornos Vinos & Licores
Carrefour
CCCB—Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
Chilevision/Festival Viña
Diageo/Justerini & Brooks
Distinto Films
El Corte Inglés
Fresh Sound Records
Fundación Telefónica
Grupo Planeta
La Fábrica
Nike
Penguin Random House
Pepsico/Kas
Cultural & Social Clients
Ajuntament de Barcelona
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Ayuntamiento de Pamplona-Iruñeko Udala
FAD—Fostering Arts and Design
C de C—Club de Creativos
Ediciones Enderiz
Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
Fundación TPH—Trabajo Para un Hermano
Photographic Social Vision
UN—United Nations
WHAT—We Humans Are Together
Communication & Advertising Agencies
Alfil Negro
Anomaly
McCann Erickson
Ogilvy & Mather
SCPF
Smäll
Sra Rushmore
Tiempo/BBDO
Villarrosàs
Adidas
Bacardi & Martini/Dewar’s
Barcelona Energia
Bodegas Ochoa
Bornos Vinos & Licores
Carrefour
CCCB—Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
Chilevision/Festival Viña
Diageo/Justerini & Brooks
Distinto Films
El Corte Inglés
Fresh Sound Records
Fundación Telefónica
Grupo Planeta
La Fábrica
Nike
Penguin Random House
Pepsico/Kas
Cultural & Social Clients
Ajuntament de Barcelona
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Ayuntamiento de Pamplona-Iruñeko Udala
FAD—Fostering Arts and Design
C de C—Club de Creativos
Ediciones Enderiz
Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
Fundación TPH—Trabajo Para un Hermano
Photographic Social Vision
UN—United Nations
WHAT—We Humans Are Together
Communication & Advertising Agencies
Alfil Negro
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 in the book Laus 2023, on the occasion of the Companies and Entities Award granted by ADG/FAD to the CCCB—Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
Interview at Dopler, Argentinian design news agency, on the occasion of the membership in the Jury of El ojo de Iberoamérica
‘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 in the book Laus 2023, on the occasion of the Companies and Entities Award granted by ADG/FAD to the CCCB—Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
Interview at Dopler, Argentinian design news agency, on the occasion of the membership in the Jury of El ojo de Iberoamérica
Memberships
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 University School of Design and Art, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at C de C Spanish Creativity Yearbook, Madrid
Member of the Board of Directors at ADG/FAD—Association of Graphic Designers/Fostering Arts and Design, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at ADG Laus Awards, Barcelona
Teaching
Professor of Art Direction at
Barcelona School of Creativity, Barcelona
Professor of Art Direction at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Mentor of Final Degree Project at Bau College of Arts and Design, Barcelona
Professor of Graphic Communication at Bau College of Arts and Design, Barcelona
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Contact
javier@aristu.com
Barcelona, Madrid, Pamplona
+34 692 804 256
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 University School of Design and Art, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at C de C Spanish Creativity Yearbook, Madrid
Member of the Board of Directors at ADG/FAD—Association of Graphic Designers/Fostering Arts and Design, Barcelona
Member of the Jury at ADG Laus Awards, Barcelona
Teaching
Professor of Art Direction at
Barcelona School of Creativity, Barcelona
Professor of Art Direction at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Mentor of Final Degree Project at Bau College of Arts and Design, Barcelona
Professor of Graphic Communication at Bau College of Arts and Design, Barcelona
Contact
javier@aristu.com
Barcelona, Madrid, Pamplona
+34 692 804 256