COFFEE & COOKING
In search of the next cup.
Every coffee shop could be better than the last. Or at least that's what I want to believe. An almost unnecessary search for coffees, places and small routines that end up shaping my days.
INDEPENDENT CREATIVE STUDIO
A2Q STUDIO
STORIES · ART · MOTION · DIGITAL.
I'm Adriano Ávila Quintero, founder of A2Q Studio. Here, ideas become books, images, stories and digital experiences that connect with people and leave a mark.
BOOKS
Stories that explore the past, the present and what we're capable of imagining.
INDEPENDENT CREATIVE STUDIO
A2Q STUDIO
STORIES · ART · MOTION · DIGITAL.
I'm Adriano Ávila Quintero, founder of A2Q Studio. Here, ideas become books, images, stories and digital experiences that connect with people and leave a mark.
LEARN MOREBOOKS
Stories that explore the past, the present and what we're capable of imagining.
01 SELECTED WORK
Ideas that end up becoming something.
Not everything I start makes it here. This is a sample of projects where an idea found its final shape, across books, image, motion and digital product.
02 BOOKS · STORIES
N. A. QUINTERO
My identity as a writer. Books published under this name live apart from the studio work, with their own voice and pace.
Cuando Todo Cambia
Only available in Spanish for now. A notebook of calm, understanding and first steps for parents and caregivers after diagnosis.
A diagnosis can change many things. But it doesn’t have to be walked through from guilt. This book accompanies parents and caregivers after an autism diagnosis, with reflections, writing exercises and breathing pauses meant to hold that moment with more calm.
VIEW ON AMAZON03 NOTEBOOK · JOURNAL
Notes, objects, places and ideas that end up shaping what I make.
The Notebook is still being built. These are the first categories: Ideas, Coffee & Cooking, Objects, and Travel & Places.
TRAVEL & PLACES
Barcelona is never finished.
There are cities you visit, and cities you want to return to. Barcelona is one of the second kind. Every time I go back I find a street, a building, a corner or a story I hadn't seen before.
IDEAS
Looking at what exists to imagine what doesn't yet.
Creating doesn't always mean starting from zero. Sometimes it starts by looking at something familiar from another angle, asking why it works that way, and what would happen if we tried it differently.
RIGHT NOW
READING
Books, ideas and voices that help me see what's changing in us from another angle.
WRITING
New stories under the name N. A. Quintero, while Cuando Todo Cambia starts its own path.
LEARNING
To turn experience, questions and curiosity into things that can be useful to someone else.
DRINKING
Black coffee. Like almost every morning.
04 ABOUT A2Q
ADRIANO ÁVILA QUINTERO
Founder / Creative Director
I've spent a good part of my life trying to understand how things work. Sometimes that means opening up a computer. Other times, building a story, designing an interface, or asking myself why a conversation stayed with me for years.
A2Q comes from my name: two A’s and a Q. It’s the studio where these different ways of looking coexist. In literature I sign as N. A. Quintero; the rest of the work lives under A2Q Studio.
A2Q Studio is not an agency. It’s where the things I care about enough end up, so I can try to turn them into something.
05 CONTACT
Let’s talk about your project.
Tell me in a few lines what it’s about. I reply directly from contacto@a2qstudio.com.