Entre Aquí y Allá
Jose Martinez
Entre Aquí y Allá examines immigration as both a physical movement and an emotional and psychological condition of living between two places. The project takes the form of a magazine publication and a series of posters centered on undocumented Mexican immigrant experiences. The research investigates how Mexican immigrants renegotiate identity and belonging in the United States after separation from their cultural foundations. The project builds awareness and empathy by presenting first–person narratives and physical cultural references.
Entre Aquí y Allá presents anonymous interviews with four undocumented Mexican immigrants and documents their emotional and psychological experiences of living between Mexico and the United States. Photography, editorial layout, and typographic hierarchy translate testimony into a visual narrative. Bright color palettes, textures, and hand-painted letterforms reference Mexican vernacular graphics and visual culture
Research sources include anonymous interviews, scholarly texts on diaspora, and El Laberinto de la Soledad by Octavio Paz, which informs interpretations of cultural identity, solitude, and national consciousness. Critical Design guides the translation of lived experience into printed and environmental form. The work positions graphic design as a vehicle for testimony, documentation, and cultural preservation.
Entre Aquí y Allá frames immigration as lived experience grounded in memory, place, and identity rather than abstraction. The publication design and posters work together to make emotional conditions visible. Narrative structure, material references, and physical familiarity establish a platform for immigrant voices. Entre Aquí y Allá demonstrates how design can document personal history and support cultural continuity while expanding public understanding of undocumented immigrant experience.
