ELISAVA awarded in the Laus 2014

Last Thursday 26^th June the ceremony of the Laus Awards, organized by the FAD Association of Graphic Designers and Art Directors (ADG-FAD) took place.

A total of fifteen projects by ELISAVA students and alumni were awarded in the last edition of these awards that recognize the creativity and quality of audiovisual and graphic communication. «Socialitycs», a project by four former students of the Master's Degree in Design and Internet Web Project Direction, won a Gold Laus in the Web & Digital media category. The same project received a new award, the Laus Aporta, which aims to give visibility to the contribution of design to the community. You can get more details about the winners in the ADG FAD interview at ELISAVA.

Moreover, students of the School received 4 Silver Laus and 10 Bronze Laus for graphic design, web and audiovisual projects.

Awarded projects

Socialytics
Award: Golden
Category: Masters and Postgraduates - Web & Digital media
Authors: Enric Blasi, Karla Dorado, Miquel Mir Miquel and Hugo Parada
Tutors: Iván Serrano, Javier Usobiaga and Marta Armada

Online platform for sharing and spreading information about demonstrations. It allows to see demonstration data in real time, so it offers an objective radiography of the society. The project includes a web page and a mobile application.
http://www.miquelmirmiquel.com/socialytics.org/index.html

Elga
Award: Silver
Category: Studies Final Project - Web & digital media
Authors: Alexandra Bardou, Helena Puig
Tutor: Esteve Travesset and Maurici O'brien

Mobile application for the ELISAVA University that combines game and design. The application has been designed by gamification, a system that integrates game mechanics in environments that do not belong to this area and that encourage the motivation and the customer loyalty of its users.

Farenheit / Bespoke ice cream
Award: Silver
Category: Free-choice project – Graphic Design
Author: Samuel George
Tutor: Griselda Martí

Creation of the corporate identity of an ice-cream parlour called Fahrenheit that elaborates bespoke ice-creams. The customers can choose the ingredients, the process and the presentation of the ice-cream (for this reason the slogan is "Bespoke ice-cream"). The student has given this project a very personal, close and sympathetic touch, which matches with the brand philosophy.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Farenheit-Bespoke-ice-cream/13125629
 

Tosca
Award: Silver
Category: Free-choice project –Audio-visual graphics
Authors: Anton Òdena, Victor Flores
Tutor: Sergi Carbonell

Audio-visual project about the opera «Tosca», carried out in collaboration with the Liceu Opera House. The piece is in black and white for showing the contrast. Overall, it shows a series of elements that transmit the context of this opera (full of mystery and sluggishness) and the feelings of the main character.

Circole
Award: Silver
Category: Masters and Postgraduates – Graphic design
Authors: Albert Gómez, Virginia Pol
Tutor: Pablo JuncadellaGraphic Design and typography project that develops a system for creating different typographic designs for the identity of Circole, a circus school located in Barcelona. The project suggests different designs, both for posters that advertise the School and for the packaging of its merchandising.

¿Iglesia?
Award: Bronze
Category: Free-choice project – Graphic Design
Author: Manel Portomeñe Marqués
Tutor: Jesús Ayuso

Series of 27 posters that question the role of the church in the 21^st century. It is a set of promotional pieces that motivate the receptor to think about the church and the role it plays in our society. All the posters have a surprise factor which is invisible at first sight that allow the observers to reach their own conclusions.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/14913007/Church
 

Fahrenheit
Award: Bronze
Category: Free-choice project – Graphic Design
Author: Luis Arenós Corujo
http://issuu.com/luisarenos/docs/graphic_design_portfolio

Dodo. Catch it on the Fly
Award: Bronze
Category: Masters and Postgraduates - Web & Digital media
Authors: Naná Ramírez, Alan Lemus, David Zuluaga and Enric Blasi
Tutors: Lander Muruaga and Tona Monjo
DODO is a multi-device application that identifies birds from images or sounds that can be uploaded from the mobile phone, the tablet or the computer. The technology used compares the uploaded file with the data base, making the identification of species possible.

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Annihilation
Award: Bronze
Category: Studies Final Project - Audio-visual graphics
Author: Carla Molins Pitarch
Tutor: Sergi Carbonell and Iván Serrano

The project mixes Science and Audiovisual with the aim to show and to explain abstract concepts. In this particular case, the subject of study is the antimatter, a scientific term which lacks an understandable graphic representation but at the same time creates doubts and questions to the population.
http://carlamolins.prosite.com/98103/2029242/gallery/annihilation

Cartive
Award: Bronze
Category: Free-choice project – Graphic Design
Author: Carolina Poch Enciso
Tutor: Olga Llopis

Project that involves the design and the corporate identity of a car-sharing company. The slogan is "Be active, be cartive" and the aesthetic is youthful and innovative, with a graphic style that reminds the traffic signs. The project entails advertisements, web and applications design and the creation of member cards, among others.

Bang Bang
Award: Bronze
Category: Studies Final Project – Graphic design
Author: Banui Barragán
Tutors: Ariel Guersenzvaig and Xavi Roca

Interdisciplinary project that invites everybody to think about this world in which we live stuck to a screen. The proposal includes a fanzine, a flyer and an Analog Day Kit composed by a cassette, a sketchbook, a note pad, an address book, a bag, an hourglass, a single use camera and a pencil. All these elements help the user to spend an offline day, to disconnect.
http://vimeo.com/70607834

Verdi
Award: Bronze
Category: Studies Final Project – Graphic design
Author: Patrice Barnabé

Corporate identity for the Verdi cinema, one of the most iconic in Barcelona and one of the few that screens movies in their original version. The identity is based on the aesthetics of film scripts, using only a typewriter typeface. Quotes from the original screenplays are a way to promote Verdi's independent approach to cinema.
http://www.patricebarnabe.com/Verdi
 

Time Pantala
Award: Bronze
Category: Studies Final Project – Graphic design
Autors: Edgar Sanjuán Solé, Martí Pérez Palau
Tutor: Daniel Ayuso, Jesus Morentin, Joan Cinca i Romàn Proubasta

Design of a watch without hands that does not have second hand and that divides the hours in intervals of five minutes, renouncing to the absolute precision. The project also includes the design of the identity and the packaging of the watch, which apart from its functional application develops a critical function of rejection to the impatience of the city.

Conservas Áncora Gold
Award: Bronze
Category: Masters and Postgraduates – Graphic design
Author: Laia Fusté Cusó
Tutor: Enric Aguilera

Naming, graphic design and art direction project for a launch of a gourmet line of frozen seafood products. The pack main idea is that although they contain frozen products, they can be even fresher than the ones of the fish market; this is the reason why in every pack there are images of fresh seafood.

Interval
Award: Bronze
Category: Free-choice project – Graphic Design
Author: Laia Corominas Oriol
Tutors: Sílvia Langa, Gerard Sanmartí

Corporate identity for a musical bar called Interval located in the centre of Barcelona. Its aim is that young musicians can offer live concerts and participate in jam-sessions. The project includes posters, cards of the bar and CD sleeves, among others.
http://cargocollective.com/laiacorominas/INTERVAL