Approach & Services


Aristu & Co offers graphic design and creative or artistic direction services, especially for identity and communication projects in the social and cultural sectors. Of course this includes logos, identity systems, posters, covers, packs, books and websites, but also print or audiovisual campaigns, and virtually any visual piece intended to convey a message

In 2005, after more than a decade of experience at leading design studios and advertising agencies —two disciplines that often enrich each other—, Javier Aristu opens his own studio with the goal of striking a good 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

In 2025, the meaning of ‘& Co’ shifts from representing colleagues, collaborators and clients to referring to companies and agencies 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
Tdiferencia
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

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 Laus Awards by ADG/FAD—Association of Graphic Designers/Fostering Arts and Design, 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