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Born in Barcelona, in 1964.
He studied interior design at the Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona and
industrial design at Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milano.
He lives and works between Barcelona and Berlin.
Dubbing himself an “ex-designer”, he dedicated his work to invent “brilliantly simple ideas of
a curious seriousness”.
As a “product designer who hates objects” Martí Guixé faces something of a conundrum.
He reconciles himself to his professional role of continuing to develop new products because
“I need to use them” and by focusing on the functionality of his designs, rather than what they
look like and the materials they are made from.
After working as a design consultant in Seoul during the mid-1990s, he began a long
collaboration with Camper, the Spanish shoe retailer, in 1998 by designing its store in London.
He has designed Camper stores all over the world developing a distinctive design for each
one within the same visual language of anarchic illustrations and anti-materialistic slogans
on its packaging such as “If you don’t need it, don’t buy it” on Camper’s bags.
In 2004 he conceived FoodBall, the Camper restaurant in Barcelona.
He had exhibitions and collaborations with galleries and museums such as MoMA in New York,
MuDAC in Lausanne, MACBA in Barcelona, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Gallerie H2O in
Barcelona, Spazio Lima in Milan.
Among his most important clients, Authentics, Camper, Cha-cha, Desigual, Droog Design,
Isee2, Pure Lustre, Saporiti Italia.
For Saporiti Italia, he designed the Saporiti HUB, the office, research center, showroom and
factory store of the Italian furniture company, as well as bigwheel, stairseat webseat and 6feet,
an innovative collection of furniture for bars, restaurants and public spaces. |
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