Travel as a source of inspiration
are all inveterate travelers . They have all traveled half the world in search of themselves and in pursuit of the most precious treasure, The inspiration. They travel, for pleasure and for work.
His curiosity is always situated outside the established, outside the boxes -Pandora or Fedora- and outside all possible comfort or control zones. Thus, as explorers, they configure their creative universe.
Work is their religion because, in reality, it cannot be called work in its most classic sense. Creating is for them a vocation and vice versa. It is passion, there are no weekends, no vacations, because all the hours invested are not effort, it is pure joy.
Their points of view, their approaches, their particular gaze move their companies, their challenges and their lives forward. Constantly are renewed with different projects.
** JORGE VARELA , INTERIOR DESIGNER **
Spaces for life are the creative field of Jorge Varela. He is able to endow the houses, commercial or cultural spaces that he designs with a unique soul. , mainly that of its owners or promoters, although inevitably, in all of them the unmistakable stamp of Varela is perceived: beauty and art as lead wires.
“For work I travel a lot to Colombia and Miami as well. ** Traveling for work is another way of traveling **, almost always you look into a world that the leisure traveler does not see, you get to know other different layers of reality and most of the time it is even more enriching, ”he explains.
Jorge Varela in India
Apart from his work, music festivals have made him travel non-stop in recent years, a new motivation to move from country to country.
Katzensprung (Germany) , waking life (Portugal) or Garbicz (Poland), are some of his essential annual events where the exchange of ideas and knowledge among the attendees is essential.
"My bedside travel book since my mother gave it to me many years ago. It is, without a doubt, The time of gifts , by Patrick Leigh Fermor, wonderful in every way, a brave, moving travel story that shows us the societies of central Europe , a little before the cataclysm of the second world war.”
LAURA PONTE, DESIGNER AND ARTIST
The new stage in the life of Laura Ponte has led her to stain her hands with ink and paint. With them she creates the lines that shape her new adventure as wedding dress designer or as an artist , painting its characteristic murals in Africa.
“Traveling is connecting with the world, being willing to get out of trifles, being willing to undress. Traveling is undressing.
Art is also a way of undressing, a practice that Laura Ponte exercises with her digital works and her colorful and electric painting , full of energy.
The art of Laura Ponte
"The experience of painting a mural in the medina of Dakar it was a spontaneous act within a program of local artists, it helped me to get to know a place and a very deep culture in depth”, she clarifies vehemently.
Salzburg, Thailand, Córdoba, Málaga, Santander, Coruña, Segovia, Lisbon, Miami, Dakar and Lancashire are the last destinations of her.
“My father always said that it was completely ignorant to cross the border without knowing your own country well, and ours is simply exciting, from north to south and from east to west, I love traveling around Spain”.
“A travel book I recommend to Traveler readers is Bus trip, by Josep Pla . There are a hundred kilometers of poetry and humor, I loved her ”
Mural by Laura Ponte in Dakar
IÑAKI MARTIKORENA, CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF MOVISTAR +
The creative director of Movistar + started in the audiovisual world more than 20 years ago. Iñaki Martikorena, with a his transgressive and innovative vision , he has turned around all the TV shows and channels he has worked for.
The creations for the promotion of series, such as Lost or Game of Thrones, have taken him and continue to take him to travel to the most unexpected and remote places on Earth.
“I have just come from spending a week on the beaches of Bizkaia and Guipuzkoa, where we have a thematic tour of the places where the last season of Game of Thrones was filmed , such as Barrika, Zumaia and San Juan de Gaztelugatxe. Of course, with a little stop to put on our boots at the Azurmendi”, he adds with a humorous wink.
His unique creative approach has a firm foundation: “break barriers, open borders. The audiovisual world changes at breakneck speed, it is very important generate new ways of communicating to catch the receiver”.
He defines himself as a mercenary of the image, a 24/7 worker: "Twenty-four hours, seven days a week... and with pleasure."
His last recurring destination is Mexico : "Tomorrow I return to Mexico, to Baja California, to rest for a week and then to Mexico City, to continue 'Mexicanizing'!"
Inaki Martikorena
** MANUELA VELLÉS, ACTRESS AND SINGER**
She is one of the rising Spanish actresses, ten years of her career have passed since that leading role in the film Chaotic Anna, by Julio Médem. The smiling and perky Manuela walks her operative optimism around the world in the multiple shootings and concerts that she combines with ease.
“She related the trip first with reading. In my house it was something natural, it was everywhere. I grew up surrounded by books and movies and this means traveling mentally first. For years I have been working in the world of emotions, I travel from one place to another but I don't lose the habit of traveling through books".
Lately he has passed through Dublin, Los Angeles or Santo Domingo, but the city that has impacted him the most is Tel Aviv . "It's a modern and fun city, the energy, day or night, is amazing," she says.
The latest travel books that she has read and recommends are two novelties by her uncle, the writer Martín Casariego, one dedicated to travel and travelers in history, With soles in the wind , and the other is written in the sky , over the city of Madrid.
MIGUEL DEL ARCO, DRAMATIST
just won the National Theater Award , a well-deserved award for this Spanish playwright, screenwriter, stage director, film director and actor.
He is clearly the man has revolutionized the scene in Spain, To say that his concern is risk is practically a no-brainer.
His passion and his audacity lead him to unthinkable paths, such as becoming an entrepreneur in his theater project, Kamikaze , an apt name for this headshot without a net successfully rehabilitate and open the old Pavón.
When asked about his travels, his eyes light up: “One of the last is Jordan, very typical, but! who can avoid the pinch in the heart when you advance through that canyon!”
“The other trip is to my house in Extremadura, in the pools of Madrigal de la Vera , my adopted land. Privileged nature two hours from Madrid. We have bought a piece of land at the foot of the Almanzor and I think that is what keeps me sane lately.”
Michael of the Arch in Jordan
DIEGO GUERRERO, CHEF
Diego Guerrero is a designer, more than a cook, designer at 360 degrees of your gastronomic project , awarded worldwide. At this moment he distributes his activities between his restaurant DStage and also his recent center of innovation and development, DProject.
He does not conceive his life and his work without advancing, steps or kilometers, on his Harley Davidson motorcycle: “When I travel is when I clear my mind and, at the same time, my creative revolutions are activated. There comes a time in the year when I decide to stop, dead in my tracks. So I travel, to a mountain or to the sea…, to think”, he explains.
When this event occurs, his entire team is forced to take the reins. Meanwhile, Diego is dedicated to thinking about new challenges, always traveling.
One of the latest destinations that has impressed him is Lanzarote. Although this year he has escaped to Costa Rica, Thailand, Mexico, Russia and China. His next destinations are Istanbul, Colombia and Vallarta.
diego warrior