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Me

Bernardo Rivavelarde

Bernardo has combined always his passion in graphic design with his passion in art. His timeline career is a mix of both areas. When he needs the feel of creating an exhibition he takes a break at his job and then he brings out all the ideas that commercial design usually doesn't allow him to express.

For Bernardo, his most innovate and radical work is showed in his exhibitions, the field where he can develops his creative world completely free just because he is his own client.

As graphic designer Bernardo has been working for many years creating campaigns (websites, corporative graphic identity, brochures, catalogs, calendars, inter actives, app, etc) for clients such as Opel, CBRE-Richard Ellis, Banco Santander, Coca-Cola, Renault, Madrid Council House, Telefónica, National Orchesta of Spain, Canal +, Tele5, J&B, FM Arquitectos, etc.

In this site Bernardo has put a brief summary, a selection of his graphic works with a special dedication to the designs he created for the Compañía Nacional de Danza (National Dance of Spain) from 2001 to 2010.

Bernardo's exhibitions have been showed in this following places:

  1. Cinet-Art 06, International Media Art Festival Dresden (Germany)
  2. City of the Sciences, Genova (Italy)
  3. Morelia (México)
  4. Second International Symposium of Interactive Media Design (Turkey)
  5. El Baluarte, Pamplona (Spain)
  6. Ciberart, Electronic and animation Art Festival of Bilbao, (Spain)
  7. National Library of Spain, Madrid (Spain)
  8. Pasión Spanish Design. organized due the Spanish precedence of European Union, Berlín (Germany)
  9. Signs of the Century, 100 years of Graphic Design in Spain, Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (Spain)
  10. Valle Quintana Gallery, Madrid (Spain)

Bernardo has received important awards during his professional career, among these are:

  1. Future Nature selected for "the best of 2011" at the Prix Ars Electronica 2011 (Austria)
  2. Bronce I.D. International Design Magazine's Interactive Media Design Review, (United Kingdom)
  3. Cannes Festival, (France)
  4. LAUS Award, Barcelona (Spain)
  5. Mobius Award, Barcelona (Spain)
  6. Cámara de Comercio Awards, Madrid (Spain)

Here are some mentions and achievements of Bernardo's career:

  1. Selected by publisher Taschen as one of the bests Graphic Designers in the world in the book Contemporary Graphic Design (2008)
  2. Selected by publisher Taschen as one of the bests Graphic Designers in the world in the book Graphic Design for the 21st Century, 100 of the best Graphic Designers, (2005)
  3. The only spanish designer selected by European Campaign of IKONO book, publishing the art-portait of the best graphics designers of the world, Kölhn (Germany, 2006)
  4. Invited for lecturing in the UDESIGN congress at Monterrey (México 2008) among others designers such as Willem Henri Lucas (U.S.A), Marwan Basmaji (Líbano), Mark O´Sulivan (France), Jussi Angesleva (Finland), Assa Ashua (Israel), Lanny Sommese (U.S.A), Alejandro Sarmiento (Argentina), Jong Suhpark (Korea), Johan Granberg (Sweden), Joo Yun Kim (Korea), and Giovanni Maciocco (Italy)
  5. Selection of Bernardo's art work by the Institute of Spanish Design Development, DDI (Culture Ministry) to promote the best of Spanish design (2005)