Created after the success of the book Pioneers. Spanish Graphic Design 1939-1975 (published by Index Book), also by Emilio Gil and with a prologue by Anna Calvera (University of Barcelona), the blog offers, in Spanish and English, a visual archive about a generation of Spanish visual communication professionals almost unknown both in Spain and abroad.

This generation had to work within a not especially receptive society, isolated and impoverished, as was Spain in the post civil war period but even in those conditions they were able to stay tuned with the “state of the art” in the contemporary visual culture and to consolidate a new professional profile.

The blog covers a stoical period that starts in 1939, with the beginning of the second world war, and ends in 1975 with the death of General Franco and the return of Spain to a democratic political system.

Nowadays Spanish graphic design is living a totally different era, during the years it has been recognised both from local society and from the international design culture.