Javier Gimeno-Martínez is a Design Historian and an assistant Professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam. He holds two MA-degree, one in Industrial Design (Universidad Cardenal
Herrera) and an MA-degree on Art History (Universidad de Valencia) on the top of that he he obtained his PhD (KULeuven) in 2006 with his Thesis “The Role of the Creative Industries in the
Construction of Regional/European Identities (1975-2002): Design and
Fashion in Belgium and Spain.”
The text sets out the
political reasons behind the Spanish Autonomous Communities and connected with the design process of logos and heraldic emblem. Within the changes of the seventeen new democratic regions in Spain from
1977-1991. “New autonomous
governments, who opted to create their down identity signs in order to manifest
their presence among their voters.” Javier Gimeno-Martínez goes on to explain how the designs compositions where received by the individual regions and what made them successful or not.
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