My name is David Garcia Forés, aka Un tipo ilustrado, born and raised in Barcelona, I still live and draw here.
For the publishing company Play Attitude, I illustrated several books, such as The Forgotten Colors, Inspiration Dormant, Edgar Allan Poe: Ravings of Love and Death. In 2014 I co-founded iClassics, an immersive reading project where technology, illustration and music refresh the texts of classic authors.
Nowadays I work as a freelance illustrator, illustrating books and covers for publishing companies like Planeta, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House and RBA. I also illustrate board games or children's stories for Gamusetes, among many other things.
My passion for drawing started at a very young age, in class my notes were the most photocopied of the school, not for their content but for the sketches at the margins. I was a very good student and I got into studying a degree in Economics (being a good student doesn’t mean to know what you want to do with your life). And thus I spent five years increasing my collection of illustrated notes, learning a lot about life, not so much about economics.
At two subjects from getting the degree, I decided to upset my parents by starting a design agency. There, in Play Creatividad, I designed and illustrated works for clients like Imaginarium, ACB and Ajuntament de Barcelona, among others.
For the publishing company Play Attitude, I illustrated several books, such as The Forgotten Colors, Inspiration Dormant, Edgar Allan Poe: Ravings of Love and Death, which were published in Italy, Japan, South Korea, Chile, Brazil and USA.
In 2014 I co-founded iClassics, an immersive reading project where technology, illustration and music refresh the texts of classic authors.
Nowadays I work as a freelance illustrator, illustrating books and covers for publishing companies like Planeta, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House and RBA. I also illustrate board games or children's stories for Gamusetes, among many other things… meanwhile, they still wait for me at the Faculty of Economics.
Collaborations
- Penguin Random House
- Editorial Planeta
- Harper Collins
- Invedars Games
- Gamusetes Editorial