Interviews

Ernest Perera, who was born in 1974, did a degree in Bellas Artes (Fine Arts) at the University of Barcelona. He later studied industrial design at the design college Elisava Escuela Superior de Disseny. In 1998, he founded the studio Dforma so that he could take on both personal (...)

Barcelona-born Jordi Llopis i Freixas did an MA in furniture and product design at the Royal College of Art, in London, from 1996 to 1998, having previously done a BA in industrial design at the Barcelona design college Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona from 1991 (...)

It comes as a surprise to find that an industrial design company employs social anthropologists. But Barcelona-based EDDA is no run of the mill firm. It doesn´t work on superficial observation or conjecture, it Designers need to understand what people think (...)

Gabriel Teixidó was born in 1947 in Barcelona. Having trained at the city’s Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos (School of Applied Arts and Artistic Professions), he established himself as a freelance designer in 1970. Since then, he has been in constant demand.  He (...)

Rather unusually, the Madrid-born designer and artist Jaime Hayón’s first brush with design came not through going to art school but through hanging out on the skateboarding scene in the States. “I left Madrid and went to live in San Diego. On the skateboarding scene there, I (...)

Gerard Sanmarti, who was born in Barcelona in 1974, and Gabriele Schiavon (born in Padua, Italy in 1973) met while working at Benetton’s communications research centre, called Fabrica.  It was while they were on a Pacific island in the summer of 2001 that (...)