Between strokes and traits: a message

Get our hands on a newspaper, a book, is the workers result who generally defies night and sleeping hours to produce news to the readers or history, adventure, romance and so achieve the print fill the greed of those who enjoy it, the mind always goes to whom he wrote, and never to anyone who works with the machines, grease and inks because printing strives to satisfy the most exquisite aspiration.

Often remain anonymous, with the pressure imposed by shortages, Cubans graphical workers persist in the implementation of important purposes. They are multifaceted, they are also responsible for the printing of drug cases, tags for cigars, business forms to public health, and the production of newspapers, loose, magazines and books.

The daily work of graphical workers is indispensable, the office is as old as the history of the universal culture, the man struggles to leave testimony of the history of his time, it is the activity that allows communicate ideas, facts and values ​​to determined social groups with a clear and specific purpose. Graphic design is a profession whose business is visually communicate information, manufacturing facilities and currently digital.

Workers as printers, graphic designers, photographers and related professions communicate, inform, contribute to the orientation; they optimize the indispensable work of entertaining, creative, impactful way, news aimed at the population. They depend more entertaining, creative, powerful visualization and proper organization and distribution of news. Great responsibility in their hands because the visual production of information requires technical mastery of the visual arts, the skill to achieve through print and digital products either from the Silkscreen until Computerized designs in rapid evolution, for the development of information and communication technologies, carrying the message.

In each design, is tested update message from the development of society, particular in order to publish and publicize the results and processes of the statistical work on demography, economy and society in the passing of years.

Every August 2nd is celebrated in Cuba the Graph Worker Day, in honor to Alfredo Lopez Arencibia, typographer disappeared in 1926. Native from Sagua la Grande, in Las Villas province, he suffered from child discrimination and social inequality for being poor, mestizo and illegitimate son. Active participation in social excesses, he joined the Cuban graphics, was founder of the Federation Workers of Havana and the National Workers' Confederation of Cuba, first markedly anti-imperialist organizations. Julio Antonio Mella called him "master of the Cuban proletariat" whom on July 20th, eighty-seven years ago was killed by his unit and advocates ideas of workers.

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