2nd Interview: Jordi Labanda | Illustration

We were at Jordi Labandas Place in the Center of Barcelona, a beautiful 1900 building, renovated in a moderniz way while keeping the traditional structure of stone and wood with amazingly high ceilings. His studio is more like a Laboratory; full of books and his table is full of work. As he doesn’t like artificial light, he just opened the door to the backyard and turned off the light. The sun was shining through the orange trees in the backyard on the wooden floor and made his studio look like one of his surrealistic drawings, very aesthetic and in warm colours. We sat down on the floor and we started to talk. Famous for his aesthetic, elegant and ironic illustrations he did for magazines like Wallpaper, New York Times, Visionaire, Vogue, he is one of the few international illustrators who doesn’t use computers, but gouache on paper.