Labanda is a commercial illustrator living and working in Barcelona since 1993. This is a collection of 95 full-color gouache on paper illustrations with three foldouts. His sleek modern style illustrations appear in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Vogue, W, Wallpaper, Tatler, and other fashionable magazines. The minimal text is in English.From the publisher:This is the first, long-awaited gathering of the work of Barcelona illustrator Jordi Labanda, a frequent contributor to magazines such as Wallpaper, Visionaire, Spruce, Vogue USA, and Vogue Japan, and the creator of innovative advertising campaigns in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. Labanda portrays his figures in a sophisticated world, expressing his original –at times ironic, at times photographic– vision of social mores, fashion, art, architecture, and human relationships. His illustrations of contemporary “types” and “super-hip” lifestyles have spawned a legion of imitators. His elegant line is inspired by the classic concepts of advertising, with an unmistakably contemporary note.Also: Chic restaurants, modernist lobbies, exotic beaches, retro ski wear, stylish underwear, haute couture luxury accessories--Jordi Labanda illustrates it all in his familiar, faux-naïf, super-cool, sophisticated style. Combining the look of comic books (Archie not Superman) and little girls' picture books with a dashing retro flair, an elegant line, and a unique interpretation of commercial advertising concepts, Labanda creates seamless, mildly sexy worlds in which everything looks good enough to want and human relations sit front and center. Drawing in gouache on paper with marten-hair brushes, Labanda makes no use of computers. Hey Day is the first compilation of his work, providing a wide, gorgeous variety of the imagery he has created over the last few years.
