Studio Cristian Ordóñez

What Makes a Lake? (US + Canada)
Sequencing, Design and Production. Edited with Abbey Meaker and Estefania Puerta.
Published by Another Earth.

Frequency (Canada)
by Cristian Ordóñez, 2023.
Edward Burtynsky Grant from the Scotiabank CONTACT Festival, awarded in 2021.
Collections include: National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives Collection (Canada); Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Collection (Canada); and San Telmo Museum, Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection (Spain).

Studio Ma Architects (US)
Creative Direction of Visual Identity, Content, Photography, Videography and Website.
In collaboration with Bruce Mau Design, with designers Laura Stein, Dan Rivera. Website code by Hambly Freeman. Photography by Mark Sommerfeld.

Trick Not Telos (Canada)
by Katherine McKittrick.
Box set with 5 books and essays. Curated by Liz Ikiriko. Design Direction by Cristian Ordóñez.
Katherine McKittrick is a Canadian professor and academic, writer, and editor. Katherine is a professor in Gender studies at Queen's University.

Trick Not Telos, Cristian Ordonez, Liz Ikiriko and Katherine McKittrick

La montaigne qui hurle (Canada)
by Betty Bogaert.
Book Design, Editing and Sequencing by Cristian Ordóñez and Betty Bogaert.

Grand Junction (US)
Creative Direction, Wayfinding and Design.
In collaboration with HWKN Architects, David Rubin Land Collective and Bruce Mau Design.
In collaboration with designers Elvira Barriga, Helio Teles and Jordan Bischoff.
Photography courtesy of Alan Karchmer.

Fundación Antenna (Chile)
Perimeter, a photographic essay as a response to "The distance of things is overcome by a plane", text by Matías Allende Contador for Fundación Antenna.
Curated by Matías Allende Contador, with advice from Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz.

Diamond Schmitt Architects (Canada)
Book Design and Sequencing.
Text by Paddy Harrington. In collaboration with Frontier.

Frecuencia, for Galería Animal (Chile)
by Cristian Ordóñez.
Photography and Exhibition Design.
Curated by María José Sagredo. Text by Mónica Salinero Rates.
Exhibition photography courtesy by Felipe Ugalde.

Signals (US + Canada)
Book Sequencing, Design and Production. Edited with Abbey Meaker.
Published by Another Earth.

La Triennale di Milano (Italy)
Street Art Exhibition, XX1T Triennale, City After the City Pavilion.
Exhibition Design and Edition. Curated by Nina Bassoli. Creative Direction by Manuel Gonzalez. Associate Creative Director by Cristian Ordóñez.
In collaboration with Bruce Mau Design, with designers including Sebastián Rodríguez, Mariana Nemer and Jordan Bischoff.

Land Chapters (US)
Publication Design and Sequencing.
Curated by Abbey Meaker and Estefania Puerta.
Published by Another Earth.

Extempore (Canada)
10 Gelatin Silver Print (edition of 3 each).
A collaboration with artist Justin Pape, the cassette tape is housed in a sculpture made of recycled materials, construction debris, used coffee grounds, artists hair that was grown and cut during 2020-2021.
Published by Colony Collapse.

Thoughts, Instinct, and Process, Workshop (Canada)
Photobook and Edition Workshop, directed for VU Photo in Québec City.
Direction, Sequencing, Editing with 6 photo-based artists: Hua Jin, Gaston Côte, Kassandra Reynolds, Betty Bogaert, Emmanuel Luce and Isabelle de Blois.

Cristian Ordóñez, VU Photo, Photo book edition workshop

Cristian Ordóñez, VU Photo, Photo book edition workshop Studio Cristian Ordóñez

Azure Magazine (Canada)
Art Direction and Editorial Design (ongoing).
AZURE is an award-winning magazine with a focus on contemporary architecture and design since 1985.
Collaboration with editors Elizabeth Pagliacolo, Catherine Osborne, Danny Sinopoli, Eric Mutrie, Kendra Jackson, Stefan Novakovic, and Sydney Shilling.
Published by Azure Publishing.

Nothing Special (Canada + Italy)
Video Direction for Nothing Special.
Audio composed by Justin Pape (to review with audio under request).

UPENN, Pennovation (US)
Creative Direction, Identity, Custom Typeface, Environmental Graphics, Signage and Wayfinding System for University of Pennsylvania.
In collaboration with HWKN Architects, David Rubin Land Collective and Bruce Mau Design. With designers Elvira Barriga, Duy Pham, Peter Minsub Lee and Jordan Bischoff.
Photography courtesy of Bruce Mau Design, HWKN Architects and David Rubin Land Collective.

The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Photographic essay: Ravines in Toronto, their ecology and relationship to the urban environment, including portraiture of forestry ecologist Eric Davies.
Article with text by Oliver Moore and Alex Bozikovic, and in collaboration with photo editor Clare Vander Meersch.

Frequency b-sides (Canada)
by Cristian Ordóñez.
3 unique publications. Design Direction and Photography.
Production courtesy of Flash Reproductions.

The Deepest Lake (Argentina + US)
by Brian W. Ferry.
Book Design, Editing with artist.
Published by Paripé Books.

Another Earth (US + Canada)
Vermont and Toronto based independent publisher of artist books and ephemera.
Design Direction, Editing and Design.

Notes (Canada)
by Cristian Ordóñez.
3 publications. Sequencing, Edition, Photography, Design.
Collections include: San Telmo Museum, Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection (Spain).

Cristian Ordóñez, Notes (On Trial) Books

Nothing Special (Canada + Italy)
Photography for large format book, commissioned by Italian furniture brand Nothing Special.
Photography by Cristian Ordóñez.
Book Edited by Marlo Onilla. Book Designed by Biography.

Displace, for Project 107 Gallery (Canada)
by Cristian Ordóñez.
Photography, Book and Exhibition Design for Project 107 Gallery.
Book production courtesy of Gas Company.
Text by Stefan Novakovic.
Curated by Justin Pape and Nicole Charles.

Art Canada Institute (Canada)
Identity system, in collaboration with Concrete, with designer Ryan Crouchman.
Massey College, University of Toronto.

Farm Book (Canada)
by Andrew Blake McGill.
Book Sequencing and Book Design with the artist.

Samsung (US)
Creative Direction, Video and Animation Content Curation, Interactive Design and VR Landscape Video Curation for Samsung 837 store in the Meatpacking District, NYC.
In collaboration with Bruce Mau Design, with designers Michael Dudek, Hélio Teles, Benjamin Lory, Charlotte van den Bosch, Julian Koschwitz, Chris Lee and Siavash Khasha.
Animation and Motion Graphic in collaboration with Moment Factory.
Interior design by Wonderwall.

Trama, for Sur Gallery (Canada)
for Sur Gallery.
Photography and Installation Design. Group Exhibition "The People United".
Installation grid built with Baltic Birch plywood panels designed and constructed in collaboration with artist Justin Pape.
Curated by Tamara Toledo.

Laboratorio de Gobierno (Chile)
Creative Direction and visual identity system.
The Government Laboratory (Laboratorio de Gobierno) is the State agency that since 2015 has been concerned with co-creating solutions to priority public problems and installing capacities to innovate in public institutions, with the aim of improving public services and their relationship with citizens from a systemic perspective with a focused on users.
Photographs of applied identity, courtesy of Laboratorio de Gobierno.

New Aging (US)
by Matthias Hollwich (HWKN Architects).
Creative Direction and Book Design. In collaboration with Bruce Mau Design, with designers Elvira Barriga and Kaila Jacques. Illustrations by Robert Samuel Hanson.
Published by Penguin Books US.

This website includes selected work and collaborations. For more or detailed information please contact.

Toronto, ON Canada
studio@cristianordonez.com
+ 1 647 928 9787

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What Makes a Lake? (US + Canada)
Sequencing, Design and Production. Edited with Abbey Meaker and Estefania Puerta.
Published by Another Earth.

La montaigne qui hurle (Canada)
by Betty Bogaert.
Book Design, Editing and Sequencing by Cristian Ordóñez and Betty Bogaert.

Diamond Schmitt Architects (Canada)
Book Design and Sequencing.
Text by Paddy Harrington. In collaboration with Frontier.

Signals (US + Canada)
Book Sequencing, Design and Production. Edited with Abbey Meaker.
Published by Another Earth.