Noam Chomsky on Children and the advertising industry...

" The advertising industry is a huge industry, and anyone with their eyes open can see what it's for. First of all, the existence of the advertising industry is a sign of the unwillingness to let markets function. If you had markets, you wouldn't have advertising. Like, if somebody has something to sell, they say what it is and you buy it if you want. But when you have oligopolies, they want to stop price wars. They have to have product differentiation, and you got to turn to deluding people into thinking you should buy this rather than that. Or just getting them to consume - if you can get them to consume, they're trapped, you know.

 It starts with the infant, but now there's a huge part of the advertising industry which is designed to capture children. And it's destroying childhood. Anyone who has any experience with children can see this. It's literally destroying childhood. Kids don't know how to play. They can't go out and, you know, like when you were a kid or when I was a kid, you have a Saturday afternoon free. You go out to a field and you're finding a bunch of other kids and play ball or something. You can't do anything like that. It's got to be organized by adults, or else you're at home with your gadgets, your video games.

But the idea of going out just to play with all the creative challenge, those insights: that's gone. And it's done consciously to trap children from infancy and then to turn them into consumer addicts." -   Noam Chomsky

Nerd Ink | Nuts for Paper

After four months in the incubator, finally Nuts for Paper saw the light of day.
Project developed in partnership with Catarina. We're both designers, and with a "mild" obsession with notebooks and notepads. We decided that we wanted to do something, and that something would be with paper; something that we can call our own. 

"Nuts for Paper, founded in 2013, was born to fulfil the needs of two creative young ladies, whom have an overwhelming passion for graphic design, typography and illustration. Both are collectors of notebooks and notepads of all sizes and shapes, that inspire them to create their own line of unique products exclusively handmade, where the paper is the king.

For ambassadors of the brand, Anas' created two squirrels as alter egos that represent them. 

Snuggly Auburn and Chubby Maroon

Notebooks A5 | Nuts for Paper Collection

Notebook A6 | Nuts for Paper Collection

Matchbook Trios Inspired by Music and Other things

Cookbook Notebook and Grocery List Notepad

"My personal feeling is that citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self-defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for more meaningful democracy." - Noam Chomsky - Necessary Illusions

Portugal Independence day

Illustration by Google

Glimpses of Madrid - Parque del Retiro

Glimpses of Madrid - Sunset Royal Palace

Glimpses of Madrid - Prado Museum