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Jorge Fragua

@tooooomuchtext.bsky.social
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📚 Design Research & Theory 📚 | PhD. Design at @unicomplutense | PhD. History at @UAntwerpenFLW | Lecturer of Design History and Theory at UDIT Madrid. I am focus on design in the context of the Catholic Reformation (16th) and design aesthetic theory.

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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We're organizing this course in a few weeks in Madrid! Joran Proot is coming from Antwerp to talk about design, books and printing with movable type! Share it!
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Almost done with the academic year. Making all the 5 courses from the start its hard work! But It has been really nice, even rewarding. Next week I will be in Rome for the Sammelband Group Conference talking about administrative networks of the Vatican state heheheh
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I survived my first semester as a lecturer. Books were easier tbh.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Completely disconnected from here but everything fine and starting lecturing next week at the University of Design, Innovation and Technology of Madrid
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Por si alguno está en Madrid el jueves y quiere pasarse 👀 #editorial #design #magazine
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I will be in Lille from the 15-17th for a conference. Maybe Brussels/Antwerp for the rest of the week if something cool come up?
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Mario Benito 🇪🇺 @mario-benito.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Deseando tocarlo con las manos... Gracias al gran Jorge Fragua (@tooooomuchtext.bsky.social) por invitarme a participar en un proyecto tan bonito. #RevistaJugar4 jorgefragua.substack.com/p/justplayin...
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Justplaying - La Pose del Guernica // Revista Jugar #4: Cartel 1 impreso con tipos móviles y serigrafía.
Os quería enseñar hoy una de las piezas de La Pose del Guernica // Revista Jugar #4: Vies du Clebs, el primer cartel.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Would anyone have access to Enrico CATTANEO, Il Breviario ambrosiano. Note storiche e illustrative, 1943?
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Program of the XII Sammelband conference. I will be presenting a paper on the bibliographical understanding and problem of liturgical books :P
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New publication about the process of image homogenization because of the designer lack of historical perspective at Design Issues: www.academia.edu/128532145/Me...
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Methodology Approach to Digital Imagery Conception: The Designer Against the Homogeneity of Digital Media
Design and designers are no longer separate entities from immediacy and the internet’s continuous flow, as images and visual content now encode every product through screens and digital media. Those...
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I am procrastinating from postdoctoral application, with other application while I procrastinate from the conferences I am preparing with the papers I am finishing and the dissertation I am transforming into papers that help me to procrastinate from the non-academic work I need to finish.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Can someone read this?
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am in Florence for the week. My flat is way too much for just myself, and it has elevator inside. I finished the PhD. I am back into the archive. ☺️
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My friends did a cool T-shirt
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Trois petits poulpes dans un trench-coat @maiaflute.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
La photo on l'a ! (et l'article est ici, à toutes fins utiles : www.researchgate.net/publication/...)
2 photos d'un très bon chien (beagle) en train de sniff-snouffer des vieux livres à la recherche de vrillettes
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Ready for the PhD defence tomorrow
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a red power ranger stands in front of a mountain range
ALT: a red power ranger stands in front of a mountain range
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I hate books with notes at the end instead of at the foot page. Most annoying thing ever.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I will be here too copresenting with Antoine Mazurek and looks awesome
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sharing the awesome programme @amberburbidge.bsky.social, Francesco Montuori, Alexandre Claude and Veerle Veerbeek created for the Connections, Conflicts, and Convergences conference at the @eui-eu.bsky.social :P
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I might have a date for defence? After 5 months?
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I will be in Florence at the @eui-history.bsky.social Connections, Conflicts, Convergences Conference in February and in the International San Daniele Sammelband conference in April :P Let me know if you are around heheh
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Still working on it, but it is actually quite cool
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Heurist is quite cool for visualizing things and easy to use. Still some problems to figure it out tho Some Plantin Missal editions
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Notion was probably not a good idea. I really like the structure I can create. It is also quite easy to make the structure. But I do not think it is useful in the long run for open access.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I may have accidentally answered another CPF
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
After the Conferences of Writing Heritage last week in Rome, I am thinking about making a database with Notion and all the physical description of the editions I have analysed during the PhD. I might be able to avoid the SQL by using roll-up properties and so on to make it relational
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Very intriguing card in the Vatican Library
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today I visited my friend Gabriele. If you travel Rome, just go to this magazine shop in Trastevere (Vicolo del Cedro, 33). He has amazing and unique graphic printed materials from the 80s in a really gentrified part of Rome. Support local people with non-touristic businesses!
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Cool signatures I've seen today
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Nice 1542 edition of the Coci misal in the Infolio book fair in Madrid.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What kind of terrorist would do this to a Missale printed by Iacobo Giunta in 1546 and sell it as if it was the original binding
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just discovered the Polish fashion and arts magazine Ty i Ja, and love it!
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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...
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Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre
"Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre" published on 18 Nov 2024 by Brill.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just the printing proofs of a historical and material approach to design in the 16th century, with matte cover.
Printing proofs of my Doctoral dissertation: Redesigning Design: The Missals of Christopher Plantin and the Giunta Family
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
How long these leaves have been there?
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I need way too many signatures, apparently my thesis is the first double PhD submitted in the Complutense? and I definitely can see why.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just a few days :P
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ñife
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Who would have said that the most difficult part of the thesis is not the thesis, but the procedure for the defence of the thesis?
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
"reassesses" is my new English nightmare word
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I guess it is never too early to start quoting yourself
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Really cool guide from the Spanish National Library about the Spanish manuscript codices they held. Ton of pics! guias.bne.es/elie_manuscr...
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LibGuides: El libro ilustrado español (I): Manuscritos iluminados: Inicio
LibGuides: El libro ilustrado español (I): Manuscritos iluminados: Inicio
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
I just started to see some breviaries 😬
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
on my pre-PhD defence era
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
I am back heheheh. Thesis submitted. I will be in Rome the first week of December hehehehehehehhe
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
The co-authoring I always dream of
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
I am happy to share that the article I wrote with my dear friend Marcos García-Ergüín "Methodology approach to digital imagery conception" will be published in the Design Issues a MIT academic journal 😘
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
In case someone is interested, I will read a really innovative (weird) paper. Remember, the timeline is for Argentina, so 15-17 CET.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
In case someone is interested, I will read a really innovative (weird) paper. Remember, the timeline is for Argentina, so 15-17 CET.
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Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
Arrrrrgentina It will be quite a weird paper, but anyone feel free to join 🎉
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