Design Portfolio by Alejandro Excia
"El Corillo"

El Corillo

El Corillo is my designer toy series and most recent project inspired by food and cooking tools of the cultural roots that dwell in the kitchen and our soul in Puerto Rico.

"El Corillo"

"El Corillo"

is Puerto Rico's slang for determine group.  

first brainstorm

first brainstorm

how to characterize food and cooking tools?  easy...lets smash things together!

Un pastel

Un pastel

the Idea is to mix this with THAT!

Attitude

Attitude

and feminine swag. 

Exploration

Exploration

of body, color and dress...

Iterations

Iterations

Pose and proportions.

Dress style

Dress style

got to get it right... 

I like this.

I like this.

on The Way...

mmm...!

mmm...!

this Hits the Spot!!!!

Pasteles

Pasteles

Puerto Rico's plantain tamales, Inspired by cultural awesomeness and the voluptuous Puerto Rican feminine body of the 60's Vedette. Time to do some modeling.

 

To be continued...

Calderó

Calderó

Ah... my grouchy character.  Inspired in a cooking pot to make rice and beans.

Lets face it;

Lets face it;

you would be pissed off too if you've had your ass burned every day!

How to do this?

How to do this?

Easy... REPEAT! Smashing this with that!

and now...

and now...

Lets get to work!

too cute.

too cute.

not there yet.

either this

either this

or SAD.

Iterations

Iterations

Lets make him angry!

getting there...

getting there...

lets see the rice and beans.

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Tostones

Tostones

This is a fried smashed plantain... he makes life happy. So he should smile every time.

 

 

I promise there will be more... To be Continued.