# Graphic designer Ángel González dies from Covid, he was artistic subdirector of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde

**Date:** 08/01/2021

COVID-19 has just taken from us at the age of 81 Ángel González González. Angelito simply, one of the great designers of that Juventud Rebelde of the twentieth century without internet or web, but very gregarious and bohemian, with a newsroom full of emotions and concerns in a permanent commotion between text and image.

Angelito converting our pages into seductive incitements, by sheer line count, by sheer pica, that unit of measurement for columns that almost no one remembers anymore, just as the enticing smell of lead from the workshops has been lost. Angelito always defending from then on the initiatory power of visuality. "Beauty enters first through the eyes, in a pan," he confessed to me one night, during a stormy closing in the middle of a hurricane.

Angelito thus became artistic subdirector of Juventud Rebelde. A sentinel of what enters through the eyes. Angelito taught us with his deliberateness in those holiday closings, that the newspaper, precisely because it's in a hurry, must be dressed slowly and with composure. Angelito concentrated on the forms of presenting the daily. Absorbed in the exact fit, in the precise balance between text and image. Angelito disciplined and tenacious, with that phlegm that hid so much passion.

After retiring, from time to time he would burst into the newsroom, as if nostalgia were killing him, and he wanted to return to those happy years of closing the newspaper at the exact hour, so that it would open in people's taste at dawn. And one hurried along, as if one day we wouldn't go to that same corner, didn't dedicate all the time to him, to evoke together those happy years without the competition of postmodern immediacy, of the here and now that devours us in the mere flash of the news: that permanent defloration of reality.

He would arrive with that same demeanor of a good man, of a great father and excellent colleague, to tell you that he was active on social networks, and with obsessive desires to write the history of Juventud Rebelde, the one that swallowed so many singular destinies like his own, in different eras.