Catch up with Mucho

Rob Duncan, Pablo Juncadella,
Marc Català and John Dowling.

At the ISTD student awards at Pentagram on Friday, I was able to catch up with four of the partners from new global boutique design studio, Mucho.

All four previously worked for Pentagram, so it was a poignant location. Mucho has studios in New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Newark, San Francisco and London.

The new Mucho network was launched in April this year, so it's early days but it was good to catch up and hear that all is going well.

http://www.wearemucho.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 09.07.2013

Mucho

Today, new Mucho has been launched, together with their website. This new creative agency is the result of Mucho combining with Dowling Duncan.

The partners are Marc Català, John Dowling, Pablo Juncadella, Rob Duncan, Tilman Solé with their respective studios in New York, Barcelona, Berlin, San Francisco and London. It's a tight network of smaller, more boutique, studios with a global outlook.

I've been fortunate to have worked on projects with Rob and Pablo back in their Pentagram days and more recently with John Dowling who's work for Robert Welch and the University of Lincoln has also appeared on this blog.

 

Congratulations and best wishes to all the partners for the future.

http://www.wearemucho.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.04.2013

BCN:MCR

This is some news about an exciting event which is happening in Manchester on 21st February.

Dave Sedgwick is a Manchester based designer who has organised an exhibition featuring 5 of Barcelona's best design agencie: Hey, Lo Siento, Mayuscula Brands, Mucho and Lamosca. They are are exhibiting their work at exhibition space 2022NQ (http://www.2022nq.co.uk/), just off Dale Street in the Northern Quarter, Manchester. The exhibition launches on February 21st from 6pm with an exhibition launch evening and runs for two weeks.

This is a fantastic opportunity to see some exciting work by some great designers from another country. Here are the links to the five agencies:

http://www.losiento.net/
http://www.mayuscula.es/es/home
http://heystudio.es/
http://www.lamosca.com/
http://www.mucho.ws/

You can checkout the exhibition website http://www.bcnmcr.co.uk for more information. The exhibition is free but tickets for the launch event on 21st Feb will be reasonably priced - for more information, you can email Dave dave@designbydave.co.uk

It's worth pointing out that this event has been entirely organised and currently funded by Dave alone which I think is fantastic - hats off to him. This shows two things; firstly what one person can achieve with a great idea and talking to people; second, it shows that organisations like D&AD, DBA, ISTD, Typographic Circle et al are certainly not pulling their weight.

http://www.bcnmcr.co.uk
http://www.designbydave.co.uk
http://www.2022nq.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 11.02.2013