Joaquín Urbina, Dedo Ciego
Teaches alternative image construction methodologies
Joaquín Urbina is creative director and co-founder of the Dedo Ciego studio. He graduated in 1991 with a degree in Graphic Design in Caracas, where he spent a decade working in editorial design. He moved to Barcelona in 2001 and founded his first motion graphics studio, No-Domain. With more than 20 years focused on moving images, his mixed media work has been recognized by Motionographer, Stashmedia, Vimeo Staff Picks, and the Gràffica and Laus awards. He collaborates with brands, production companies, labels, and local and international artists, teaches experimental animation, and his visuals have been screened at festivals such as Sonar, MIRA, and the CCCB’s Xcèntric.
Dedo Ciego is a creative studio based in Barcelona, run by Ana Gale and Joaquín Urbina.
We explore the moving image by combining traditional techniques, physical objects, and analog and digital processes to achieve unique results. We love colors and textures. We design, animate, and direct audiovisual pieces that move to the beat. Advertisements, television graphics, and title sequences, but what we really love are music videos and visuals for musicians. We collaborate with local and international clients.
“Expanding the photographic image into an audiovisual language from a graphic perspective, creating moving images through an experimental, intuitive, and organic process in order to find a dialogue between image and sound.
Accompanying students in exploring new expressive and narrative possibilities through manual experimentation and analog and digital hybridization, understanding error as part of the creative process.”
