The Essential List: Aldana Medina
Aldana Medina started her career as a freelance designer during her last year of college in Buenos Aires. After graduating as a graphic designer at FADU, she travelled around Europe and landed her first official designer job at a top rated European hostel chain in Barcelona.
Aldana is a versatile graphic designer, illustrator, photography enthusiast and tattoo lover. She does bold, clean and purpose-driven designs.
Lifestyle
- Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Hometown: Buenos Aires
- Staycation: My mama’s house in Buenos Aires
- Vacation: Anywhere—just tell me when and I’ll pack
- Pet: Every dog I meet is my pet
- Place of work: Barcelona
- Place of workout: … I’ll start working out soon, I swear
- Good Habit: Buying shots for people. Cheers
- Bad Habit: Working from bed. Burning my food
- Mode of transport: Bus, window seat
- Bonus Travel Essential: Phone charged to follow Google Maps. Otherwise I won’t get anywhere
Culture
- Music Video:
- Board Game: Burako
- Artist: Shigeo Fukuda, Refik Anadol, Adriana Mora, Harry Richards, Jiri Oplatek, Karan Singh, Felipe Pantone, Andrew Footit, Christoph Brach and Daniera ter Haar
- Musician: Nope. Too hard to choose
- Author: Yuval Noah Harari
- Photographer: Polina Washington
- Film: 101 Dalmatians, The Gift, Contratiempo, Perfectos Desconocidos, Fair play, Neighbors
- Series: Peaky Blinders, Friends, Ripley, Ozark, Arrested Development, The Umbrella Academy
- Invention: Air fryer
- Book: Sapiens: A brief history of humankind, Bubblegum from Jumbo Press
- Podcast: Smartless
- Obsession: Rain, Christmas and finding good thrift items in Vinted
Food and Drink
- Breakfast: Oat pancake with avocado
- Restaurant: Lo de Abelardo in Buenos Aires
- Cheap bite: Kebab
- Working lunch: Usually my lunch is a late breakfast
- Dish: Anything with meat
- Snack: Anything salty
- Guilty Pleasure: McDonald’s
- Bar: Pisamorena
- Booze: Moscow Mule
- Not Booze: Hmm
- Bonus Food: Anything fried
- Bonus Beverage: Shots
Kit
- Phone: Motorola
- Computer: MacBook Air
- Camera: Team Canon
- Pen / pencil: Pen
- Where you document an idea: Any piece of paper at hand
- Casual Clothing: Co-ord sets
- Smart Clothing: Co-ord sets with more attitude
- Footwear: Sneakers
- Accessory: Rings. So many rings.
- Collection: Christmas ornaments
- Home comfort: Oversized t shirts
- App: TickTick
- Website: awwwards, cargocollective
- Work program: Photoshop
- Digital work tool: Figma
- Analogue work tool: Notepad
- Morning grooming / makeup essential: Not a morning person
- Bonus Kit Essential: Wacom Tablet
