Novels written in Spanish: one already published and two on the way.
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Author
Adrià Cruz Rión
Language
Spanish
Published
1
In progress
2
Published
Mientras tu corazón siga latiendo
While Your Heart Keeps Beating
Ever since he was a kid, Takashi has been direct and unfiltered. But in a world where hypocrisy binds people together, his brutal honesty only made him a common enemy.
His classmates’ rejection turned into bullying. One day, everything crossed a line, and the option he chose was to run.
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He left his old self behind and built a new identity: a carefully constructed façade to keep from suffering again.
But a lie can’t hold forever. As his world begins to crumble, Takashi comes face to face with a terrifying reality. And just when he thinks he’s at his lowest, Nozomi appears, a rather strange “psychologist” who will challenge him to face his past and let go of everything he’s been carrying for years.
“If the truth is cruel, lies must be kind, and I’d rather be cruel.”
From the book
Readers · ★★★★★ 5.0
In the drawer
Two more on the way
Two novels I am writing right now. They are not out yet.
In progress
La hipótesis de Adam Null
The Adam Null Hypothesis
Hamburg, 1991. Five lawyers. Three confessed killers.
Things work in a certain way. When A happens, B follows. When B comes, C follows.
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That is what Albrecht Wolpe told a veteran of the Hamburg courts, after killing three people and calling the police himself. A sentence the veteran wrote down in his notebook without understanding it.
It would take him six months to understand it.
After the fall of the Wall in 1989, thousands of files vanished in the chaos of German reunification.
Someone had been waiting for that moment.
“There’s a man at the back of the room. He’s been there a long time.”
From the book
In progress
Encantado de conocerte, Mr. Laurent
Nice to Meet You, Mr. Laurent
There are moments when everything seems to be in its place. Until it isn’t.
Laurent has always done what he was supposed to do. He followed the right path, made the right decisions and built the life that, in theory, was meant to make him happy.
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Until, in a matter of days, everything changes.
Suddenly, his certainties vanish, and the questions he had kept at a distance for years begin to demand answers.
What does a man do when he has nothing left to lose? And what happens when, for the first time, no one tells him which path to take?
At the foot of Mont Blanc, in a small village in the French Alps, Laurent is about to discover that losing yourself and finding yourself may be two ways of saying the same thing.
But there are things you cannot discover without first daring to look straight at what you have spent a lifetime running from.
“Sometimes, to find our way, we first have to accept that we are lost.”
From the book
Garro
Logo and packaging for GARRO, a carob brand from Terres de l’Ebre with two products: GarroFarina, a whole carob flour, and GarroCao, a soluble carob drink.
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Work
Logo & packaging
Products
GarroFarina · GarroCao
Origin
Terres de l’Ebre
Language
Catalan
My role
Drew the GARRO logo and its two versions, Farina and Cao.
Designed the labels for both products, front and back, written in Catalan.
Chose a colour system that works on light and dark packaging.
Overview
Two products, one family: the same wordmark and the same harvest scene, in cream for the flour and in warm yellow for the drink.
The idea
A scene of the carob harvest grows out of the logo, so every label also tells where the product comes from.
The logo
A logo for a carob-based brand. The word «GARRO», set in a heavy typeface, sits on top of an illustration of a carob pod; beside it, the specific product name appears in a different font: Farina for the flour and Cao for the soluble drink.
GarroFarinaGarroCaoGarroCao on carob
Colour
The design works in both brown and yellow, so it can be used on light and dark packaging alike.
Farina cream#EEE8D0
The background of the flour label.
Cao yellow#F9BB54
The warm colour of the drink.
Carob#482E2F
The wordmark and the dark version.
The labels
The packaging for both products is written in Catalan. A scene of the carob harvest grows out of the logo, surrounded by the nutrition facts, the preparation steps and the place of origin: Terres de l’Ebre.
GarroCao uses a warm yellow, while GarroFarina uses a cream tone, with a front and a back.
GarroFarina · frontGarroFarina · back
GarroCao · the whole label
Packaging
The labels on their two formats: a stand-up pouch for the flour and a cardboard tube for the drink.
GarroFarinaGarroCao
GarroFarina · backGarroCao · back
Boreal
A small project: a playable demo of a cozy exploration game set in the Arctic, made to be played in the browser.
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Genre
Cozy exploration
Platform
Browser
Status
Playable demo
Music
RION
My role
Came up with the whole game and directed it: its world, its story, its characters and how it plays.
Art direction: I decided how the explorer, the outfit, the Svalin emblem and the animations should look and feel.
Composed the soundtrack.
Overview
You travel aboard a research station on rails, weather the storms and tune into the northern lights, which hold the language of a lost civilization.
The demo
In the demo you arrive by ship and climb a snowy hill, power up the station and repair the track, then cross the ice to tune your first aurora.
Asociación Econau
Molí del Mar
