WELCOME TO AJUBELstudio
Visual and editorial work with a poetic eye and a touch of wit.
Services:
Editorial Illustration ·
Book Illustration · Concept Development · Art Direction · Editorial Design · Graphic Design · Visual Identity
Concept-driven visual work for brands, publishers and cultural institutions worldwide.
Selected clients and collaborators: TIME, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, El Mundo, La Vanguardia,
El Cultural, Le Monde Diplomatique, Courrier International, Fondation Cartier, Kalandraka, Media Vaca,
Ediciones SM, Open Books, Casa América, ICEX and Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Picture Books
Books that outlast the news.
Illustration and concept for books, personal and collective.
One image.
The whole issue.
Cover illustration
and concept
for magazines and
supplements.
Black and White
Two colors Many readings.
Conceptual illustration
in black and white:
only what’s needed,
nothing more.
Bolaño,
cover to cover.
Cover illustration and
collection design for
Roberto Bolaño, published
by Open Books, Seoul.
Visual identity,
logos, posters and packaging
for brands and institutions.
Ideas that carry a brand
Hello, I’m Ajubel
Born in Sagua la Grande, in central Cuba, I began drawing for a provincial publication and worked my way up to one of Cuba’s leading political satire publications, drawing for all the island’s major media. Cuban critics rank me among the 20 most important graphic humorists of 20th-century Cuba and consider me a reference in political cartooning and in the Cuban art of the 1980s.
In 1991 I moved to Spain, and since then I have worked with its leading newspapers, including El Mundo, La Vanguardia and El Cultural, and with Le Monde Diplomatique and Courrier International. In 2001 I founded Ajubelstudio, widening my work to design, books and digital projects. My work has appeared in TIME, The Guardian and The Boston Globe, and has received more than 120 awards, including two Bronze Medals and an Honorable Mention at the Society for News Design’s Best of Newspaper Design (1994), the Bologna Ragazzi Award and Spain’s National Illustration Award.
I now work from La Pobla del Duc, near Valencia, in a house among fields and mountains. If you have something to tell me that’s interesting for both of us, shall we talk?