A selection of projects and concepts at various scales for cultural institutions, individuals and brands. ↓

December 22, 2024

Sebastián Rodríguez Besa

About

Sebastián Rodriguez-Besa is a Chilean/Canadian multidisciplinary designer, art director, and publisher based in New York. Currently working as a Director of Brand Design at Runway, previously at Bruce Mau Design. Founding Partner/Creative of Ediciones Daga since 2010. He has worked for a wide range of clients from individuals, commercial to cultural institutions, selected clients include London Design Biennale, La Triennale di Milano, Runway, Pride Toronto, the Government of Chile, Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Van Alen Institute, and brands like Adidas, lululemon, Levi’s and Converse, among others. Sebastián collaborates with artists, publishers, and institutions, joining teams as a designer, art director, editor or showing his personal work in different publications, fairs, and exhibitions in North and South America and Europe.

 

Selected Clients

  • Adidas
  • Aurora Cannabis
  • Benjamín Ossa
  • Capital Books
  • Cartel Collective
  • Cero Technologies
  • Converse
  • Government of Chile
  • Kennedy Center of Performing Arts
  • Levi’s
  • London Design Biennale
  • Lululemon
  • Luis Mora
  • Milm2
  • Nuit Blanche Toronto
  • Pride Toronto
  • Runway ML
  • Sebastián Mejia
  • SSSOAPS
  • Unity Performance Lab
  • Unfinished
  • Van Alen Institute
  • Waterloo Greenway

Publications & Collaborations

  • Ten words and one shot
  • IDN Magazine
  • Einstein Studio
  • Counter Print
  • ForagePress
  • Revista Diseña
  • Site Inspire
  • Revista Barzón
  • Trace Magazine
  • Ene – O
  • Under Consideration / Brand New

To see more of the commercial work please don't hesitate to send me an email to:
contacto@sebastianrodriguez.ch

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Colophon

All works by Sebastian Rodríguez Besa ©; in-house works in collaboration with respective teams; Bruce Mau Design; HUGE Inc; LG2 Toronto; CCLM; Ediciones Daga; Einstein Studio; Runway ML.

Works per commission, in-house, and self-initiated; designed, selected, and archived 2010–2024 © Sebastián Rodríguez-Besa, all rights reserved.

 

Daga Editions, Dominique & Small Crew Stickers WIP

Synesthetes Collage

Onboarding Publication with Runway

On press for Runway’s first onboarding publication

Second Book—Libro Segundo

A new journey through Benjamin Ossa’s new body of work, Second Book—Libro Segundo on press.

Say It With Flowers Book

Say It With Flowers by photographer Luis Mora on press. Launch this October 17th at Contact Gallery

More Information here

Rental Magazine Issue 01

This Saturday we are going to be launching the first issue of Rental Magazine at the House of Vans/Toronto, come say hi!

latin power

As the word says, collaboration is the action of working with someone to produce or create something. That’s what we did with Luis Mora, an experimental exercise featuring the beautiful Keysi Sayago for Latinos Magazine.

research podcast

I had the opportunity to collaborate with my friend Syd in her podcast project called Re:Search — Re:Search is a podcast about ideas made in Toronto, Canada— this one, a poster of the conversation with Max Mohenu ft Nicky Yim.

spaceship

I took this photo in January 2016, this is just a really good remember of my first winter in the north side, good people, amazing energy.

Kvartirnik — Poster

“Kvartirnik” is a live music concert held in a private apartment. Kvartira means flat or apartment in Russian. These were wide spread in 1970–80’s in USSR, almost all of them had illegal and underground status. The situation when rock bands weren’t able to play in clubs and bars, because of the official goverment policy, pushed young generation to find a new way of communication with fans. Due to space limit in apartment, boundaries beetween musicians and an audience erased and a concert usually transformed to friendly party. During these live concerts a lot of sound tape records were done, copies were being distributed illegaly as well. Kvartirnik is a crucial phenomenon in alternative music culture in 70–80s & played a significant role in rock music development in Russia.

 

This poster was designed under Bruce Mau Design for United Notions exhibition. You can get a copy here.

Sebastián Mejía Exhibition

I really like the work of Sebastián, more than a good photographer, is a very good friend. I feel honored to help him doing the poster for his latest exhibition “Intervalo Peatonal” at Metales Pesados Gallery in Santiago, Chile.

Nombre y Forma Book — Camila Valdes

This work gathers everyday incidents. The scenes of each of these photographs deliver information recognizable to many, normal objects that refer to learned names: the similar and the common. Among them, accidental shapes too. Areas hiding coincidences, transformation and a longing for the natural.

Even though this book has nothing to do with words, the silence within them also speaks.

Panorama Book — Clap! 10×10 photobooks

Very thankful to be part of the selection of Clap! 10×10 Latin American Photobooks 2000-2016 with the book that we did with Ediciones Daga for the artist Sebastian Mejia.

CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks

CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks is a photobook reading room that presents 130 contemporary Latin American photobooks from 2000 to 2016. Organized by the nonprofit 10×10 Photobooks, the project launched at the PGH Photo Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh from 13-15 May, 2016 and was exhibited at the Aperture Foundation in New York City from 2-5 November, 2016 before concluding at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) from 2-3 March 2017. At the end of the reading room tour, all the books in the project will be donated to the Hirsch Library at the MFAH.

Selected by 12 Latin American specialists (either in teams or individually), the reading room is a hands-on opportunity for North American audiences to browse a range of recently published Latin American photobooks that are rarely seen or available in the US. The selected books, representing many of the most exciting innovations in contemporary Latin American photography and publications, will be documented in the forthcoming (Release: March 2017) comprehensive CLAP! book, designed by Ricardo Báez with essays by Luis Weinstein and Joaquim Marçal F. de Andrade.

Food court — Good food

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. This is my collaboration for the Food Court project realeased in the Toronto Art Book Fair 2016, thanks for the energy Chris Lee

Trampoline Hall

Underwater shapes for one of the shows of Tampoline Hall

Panic, International panic, Universal panic, Panic german government, Panic american government, Panic italian government — Lee scratch perry

Photography 10 months ago

Why travels makes you so happy?

Crests & Shields book

I’m very happy to be part of the selection of logotypes for the Crests & Shields book of Counter-Print Books.