Edu Barba
18 // Edu Barba was born in Ciudad Real, Spain, and is currently based in Seville, where he studied Architecture. Edu works as both an architect and as a graphic designer. His inspiration comes from the buildings he sees and sketches while restoring old houses, and he credits the designs he is able to create in his prints to his architectural training. He loves 1920s-style graphics and the Bauhaus, maps, signs and ‘all that wants to say much with few resources’. His dream commission would be to work for a company where his designs could be used by a lot of people, such as Ikea, Zara or Topshop. In the future, Edu would like to create his own label of clothes and household items using his designs.
Design Heroes: Josef Albers, Taddeo Gaddi, Charles and Ray Eames
Geometric Issue
Edu tries to avoid plain colours in his work, so he often scans in lots of pieces of paper with spots, imperfections and, in this case, a grid.
Geometric Neighborhood
Edu says he does not design with an objective, he just tries to find beauty in geometry and in simple things. His architectural training has given him knowledge of proportion, composition and colour theory.
24 Circles
Edu loves mathematics and physics, and here he draws shapes with precision. He feels simple geometric shapes have a huge potential, and is able to place them in coherent images.
Triangles 2
Colourful triangles of differing heights lead up to a row of elongated white points.