Ideami has written in a variety of genres including non-fiction, poetry, illustrated books and more. Some examples are below.
The Torch Principle
The Torch Principle focuses on the ideation stage of the Torch innovation methodology. It gives you techniques and tools to exercise your creative muscles and to generate unique and innovative ideas and solutions for your personal and professional challenges. Applying the techniques in the book you will also reach a better balance between your analytical and your creative muscles, which will benefit your personal and professional life.
The Moontamer
The Moontamer is an illustrated book for children, a bedtime story for kids about a Moon that wanted to be the queen of both night and day. Together with the book, Javier created a film about the moontamer as well as original piano music that sounds in the background of the film. The illustrations were also created by Ideami.
Arbol Blanco
Árbol Blanco (White Tree) is a Journey to the center of your roots in the form of a single poem, 715 verses long, fully in Spanish, in a format inspired in the "endecasilabo blanco" of the great poet Octavio Paz. It will stimulate your senses and make you reflect about yourself in many different ways. The poem is built to make you visualize a deep journey that may change the way you see yourself.
Ideami has done numerous portraits for clients all around Europe. For his portraits Ideami works mainly with the technique of Conte (Sanguine and Sepia). Conte is a technique that often serves as a bridge between drawing and painting as it allows the artist to draw carefully the detail and also to use different kinds of brushes to produce painting texture. Apart from his portraits, Ideami works with many other painting and drawing techniques including: Acrylics, watercolours, pencil, Charcoal, digital art, etc. Sometimes he uses them by themselves, other times he combines them to produce mixed-technique works.
Javier's main interest has always been the human face and figure. This is clearly expressed as well on his photography and digital artworks.
The human figure and face is one of the passions of Javier Ideami. And he has expressed this passion through many channels: drawing, painting, photography, filmmaking, and also through cooking and food, mixing another of his passions, bread, with the human face.
Ideami creates masks made of bread for celebrations. It is one of his traditions that all the attendants are captured in a photo holding the mask. Afterwards the bread is enjoyed by the group. Apart from being really fun to make, the bread mask is also a way to reflect about creativity. How can we communicate through the mask? When we all share the same channel of communication, the same bread mask, how can we stand out? what creative gestures, positions and solutions can we find to communicate who we are, and what we want to tell the world?
