Paco Raphael (The Hague, 1975) graduated from The Hague University with a degree in Applied Sciences in Communication & Multimedia Design. As a creative in advertising, he never stopped exploring ways to improve his work and its impact on the world around him. Working for big brand names like Philips, Renault, G-Star, Bol.com and MTV Networks, he evolved into a senior graphic designer. Still ambitious to explore more and better, he restated himself as artist, combining conventional art with digital media.
Since devoting himself to his personal fine art practice, Paco Raphael has accomplished worldwide exposure with Art Basel in Miami and solo shows in New York as a highlight. His work has received praise by art collectors and has been collected by a number of international leading galleries. Pushing his limits and the limit that separates art from design, he now puts his ambition and abilities to work as an industrial designer, uniting his artwork with innovative materials and products. Paco Raphael shows a new approach to all that surrounds us in life, from a painting to furniture or fashion. And we doubt he’ll stop here.
This is where it all started. What is now the contemporary products brand Paco Raphael, originates from these paintings. In these paintings, pictures Paco takes of cityscapes all over the world, are mixed with urban industrial life in the 1950ies, 60ies and 70ies, by adding images of old cinema, music, typography, erotica and architecture taken from posters.
'Westcoast Blues' is is a new original artwork by Paco Raphael where he combines photographs taken in California in 2016. Paco graduated from The Hague University with a degree in Applied Sciences in Communication & Multimedia Design. As a creative in advertising, he never stopped exploring ways to improve his work and its impact on the world around him. Working for big brand names like Philips, Renault, G-Star, Bol.com and MTV Networks, he evolved into a senior graphic designer. Still ambitious to explore more and better, he restated himself as artist, combining conventional art with digital media.
'Westcoast Blues' is is a new original artwork by Paco Raphael where he combines photographs taken in California in 2016. Paco graduated from The Hague University with a degree in Applied Sciences in Communication & Multimedia Design. As a creative in advertising, he never stopped exploring ways to improve his work and its impact on the world around him. Working for big brand names like Philips, Renault, G-Star, Bol.com and MTV Networks, he evolved into a senior graphic designer. Still ambitious to explore more and better, he restated himself as artist, combining conventional art with digital media.
Everything has already been said and done somewhere in human history. It's about the core and origins of styles
Everything has already been said and done somewhere in human history. It's about the core and origins of styles
Everything has already been said and done somewhere in human history. It's about the core and origins of styles
