Jaime Serra Palou
Jaime Serra Palou is a Catalan artist and journalist, specialized in infographics and data visualization design. He is the Director of Infographics and Illustration at La Vanguardia newspaper since October 2007, where since 2010 he publishes a column called A Sunday Paradox.
Biography
Jaime Serra has been a professional journalist since early 1990s. He has worked at, among other media, El Periódico de Catalunya, Grupo Vocento, Tele 5, El Mundo Deportivo ; Clarín, La Nación, La Voz del Interior, Olé ; El Comercio, La República ; Diario de Noticias, Jornal de Noticias ; Editora Abril, O Dia ; Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, Gazzetta dello Sport, La Stampa ; The Independent, and National Geographic Magazine. He has taught and lectured at, among other institutions, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Art Director Club NY, the Society for News Design, the Instituto Internacional de Periodismo José Martín. In Argentina he has lectured at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, University of Buenos Aires and Universidad de Palermo. And in Spain at Pompeu Fabra University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Escola Eina, IDEP, Escola Massana, Elisava, FAD, University of Navarra, the School of Journalism at San Pablo CEU.Since 2000s, Jaime Serra activity focuses on the field of artistic practices using infographics as a tool and data as raw material. As part of the same conceptual strategy, he combines the presentation of his work at contemporary art exhibitions with regular publication of those same proposals adapted to diverse editorial formats for the mass-media as the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia and the French weekly Courrier International.