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Born in Montmeló, Vallès Oriental, into a farming family. After the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Barcelona, where he trained as a self-taught artist.

In 1957, he set up his first studio in Barcelona and began working for leading national and international companies. In 1961, together with other colleagues, he founded Grafistas FAD (Designers of the Country), and in 1968 he held his first exhibition as a visual painter at the AS Gallery in Barcelona.

In 1972 he was awarded the Silver Delta, in 1974 the Laus, and he has been nominated twice for the National Design Award. His work has been exhibited in major national and international galleries in countries such as the United States, France, Germany, Sweden, Venezuela, Portugal, India, Canada, and Japan.

Born in Barcelona, he trained under his father, the renowned industrial draftsman Josep Fàbregas Bausili.

Ricard was an early prodigy in drawing and, after studying at La Llotja, divided his work between easel painting and drawing applied to the graphic arts. In this latter field, his illustrations for the devotional booklets of the Foment de Pietat Catalana, as well as the advertising for the annual festivities of the Tailors’ Guild, are particularly well known.

During the Spanish Civil War, he created the posters for which he is most recognized.

He died at the age of forty-one, leaving behind numerous examples of his versatility and, above all, his mastery in drawing applied to different media.

Born in Lleida, he later moved to Barcelona to study at the School of Fine Arts of La Llotja. He subsequently began his professional career in the studio of Ricard Fàbregas.

After a period in Madrid, he returned to Barcelona, where he opened his own studio in the mid-1940s. Years later, he combined his professional activity with teaching in the field of advertising.

The bulk of his production consists of covers and illustrations for books and other publications, as well as tourist and event posters.

Born in Barcelona, between 1942 and 1947 he trained at the Official School of Applied Arts of Barcelona. Later, in 1957, he founded the Glosa Graphic Studio, dedicated to pharmaceutical advertising, in partnership with J.M. and E. Boada within Ediciones Glosa.

He was part of the founding group of Grafistas FAD, now ADG/FAD, and in 1963 began his teaching career as a design professor at the Escola Massana.

Between 1972 and 1978, he worked for various companies, and in 1973 he received the Laus Award for his collection of illustrations for the Uriach laboratories.

His work has been published in magazines and annuals in countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, and Spain, and is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of Barcelona, the Museum of Pescia (Italy), the Gallery of the Library of Congress in Washington, the Poster Museum in Warsaw, the Berlin Museum, and the Museum of Brno (Czech Republic).

Born in Barcelona, he was self-taught. He began his career in graphic arts at the Seix Barral publishing house and, in 1962, became vice president of Grafistas Agrupación FAD (ADG-FAD). Since 1966, he has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), helping, together with his ADG-FAD colleagues, to establish the profession of designer in Spain.

He combined his teaching career in design at the Escola Massana in Barcelona with work for various companies.

His body of work comprises more than 700 catalogued projects, including artistic, sculptural, graphic design, industrial design, and interior design works.

Born in Barcelona, he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona (1945–48) under Ricard Fàbregas. Between 1956 and 1958 he worked in Paris, and upon returning, he learned printmaking techniques at the Conservatory of the Book Arts with Jaume Coscolla and Maria Josepa Colón.

He founded and directed the magazine Azimut (1966) and illustrated works by authors such as Espriu, Foix, Sarsanedas, Felip Cid, Michaux, Argenté, Cela, and Dámaso Alonso; he also created the stage design for Sartre’s “Las Moscas”.

His works are held in, among other institutions, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Muzeum Narodowe in Warsaw, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received a long list of awards and recognitions.

Born in Barcelona, he showed great artistic precocity, winning the Barcelona Youth Award at the age of 18.

In 1960, he founded the Parramon School (later Parramón Ediciones SA), dedicated to creating and publishing correspondence courses in drawing and painting. He is the author of more than 40 books translated into eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, and Japanese.

Since 1967, he has devoted himself to teaching at the former Escola Massana in Barcelona, one of Spain’s most important institutions for art education, and he is a member of the “Asociación del Instituto de Diseñadores Gráficos”.

Born in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, he began his artistic education at the age of eight at the Municipal School of Drawing of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, under the painters Ferran Ponsjoan and Pere Manera. In 1968, he began his studies at the Escola Massana, Center of Art and Design in Barcelona, and in 1969 he was invited by Enric Huguet Muixí to work in his studio, thus beginning a close collaboration.

In 1977, he established himself permanently as an independent designer with his own studio, working, among others, for the Uriach laboratories.

He was a founding member of the Association for the Creation of the College of Graphic Designers of Catalonia and took part in various design juries: the CODIG logo (1982), the Laus Award (1994), and the RAIMA Illustration Competition (1996 and 1997).

His graphic work has been published in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, England, Switzerland, and the United States.