He worked in the advertising department of the chemical company "Cruz Verde", which came to lead the advertising department, and where 1948 performed the famous advertisement for "POLIL" showed a lively warm coat that self-contemplation, checking stunned the huge and deadly hole moth has been in his back.
Later, in 1950, Artigas presented other ads, which over time has held a place of honor in the history of the iconography Spanish advertising: the lamb of "NORIT". In 1954 designed the advertising poster: powder soap to wash clothes by hand "Duxón" of "Persil". In the First Great Poster Contest "The Milkmaid" of "Nestle" in Spain, in order to "reassess the outdoor advertising and our signs offer the opportunity to show their new styles and brilliant qualities" got a Honorable mention to Josep Artigas. For ten years he set up his own studio in Switzerland, working mainly for Swiss-German and Swiss-French companies. Among the highlights are works made for brands such as:
On his return to Spain and was director of corporate advertising "PUJOL & TARRAGÓ", beginning of what is now the group "International FICOSA", designed the group's corporate image and the logos of several subsidiaries as "Cables Gandia", "FicoMirrors", "Industries Technoflex" this company in the late 1970s for concrete vibrator launched its "Rabbit" which has always been its flagship product. The logo and brand image "Rabbit" which was designed by Josep Artigas and the product itself, are renowned in their field. Artigas also had important design dealing with "Bulova" watches and clocks, "Tri Naranjus" fruit flavored drinks bottels and labels, "Codorniu" cava bottels and labels,"Perelada" cavaand wines bottels and labels, "Torres" wine bottel labels, "Juve i Camps" cava and wines bottels and labels. The latest prints and paintings he created, the exhibited in Barcelona in 1991, with the title of The Alphabet Art, introduced a colorful new technique developed from a dried hand moulded wet paper mache and different types of pigment or paint.
Mountaineering
As a big trekker, skier and climber, he was a well known member of Barcelona mountaineering club: C.E.C.Centre Excursionista de Catalunya and actively participated in the "Grup Cavall Bernat" brotherhood inspired in the training, and climbed Cavall Bernat nearby the Monastery of Montserrat. He collaborated with his drawings in several books:
Dictionary of the Mountain Costa Faus Augustine.
ClimbingErnesto Mallafré
First aid in accidents and ski mountain by Drs Michael Gras, and Jorge Eduardo Padrós Perelló.
Artigas invented a curious diamond-shaped device with a beam which acted as dynamic brake. Equipped with this ingenious device, Artigas alone exceeded the needle's emblematic Rave, the mountain of Montserrat.
