Anagrama

Work / Graphic Design

Anagrama

Words by Alex Bec, Wednesday 09 September 2009

I can’t put my finger on why this images are so successful, but there made me want to pull them out of the folio of Anagrama and show you. A Mexican studio with a very sound body of work, and you can’t help but feel as though it sounds like a little bit more exciting when refered to as ‘Dirección De Arte’.

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