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Actual Life

Project Overview

Self-initiated visual diary project combining photography and lettering: capturing the emotional atmosphere of memories.

Services

Self-expression

Date

2024-2025

Client

Actual Life

Location

Inside

The problem

In the inertia of everyday life, meaningful moments fade. Intense emotions, although they disappear quickly and become blurred memories, leave a trace. The project emerges from the need to express that trace. If emotions are not expressed, they become buried.

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Conceptual decision

Inspired by the way Fred Again.. builds his songs (from real fragments, voices, and everyday memories), the project adopts a similar logic: capturing real phrases, isolating moments, and turning emotion into form. Text and image complement each other to reconstruct the feeling of the lived moment.

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Graphic system

A coherent system based on typographic layering over photography, organic integration of text in space (not just simple overlay), use of color conditioned by the real light of the moment and memory, and a balance between spontaneity and controlled composition.
The system allows variations while maintaining expressive unity.

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Typography

Handmade lettering digitized and developed for each piece. The lettering style varies according to emotion: fast and aggressive strokes to represent anger; spacing, lettering, and balanced compositions for peace or calm; and luminous volumes and strokes to convey joy and excitement.

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Visual resources

Everyday analog photography without editing, real textures, and compositions built on the contrast between typography and environment.

It’s been a while since I’ve heard my own voice

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RESULTS

Creation of a visual diary sustained over time. Consolidation of a unique hybrid language between graffiti, graphic design, and music culture.
Development of a replicable expressive system. Personal catharsis transformed into a visual system.

My name is

Alberto Herrero,

Creative Director

based in Madrid