Born in Barcelona in 1964, Guíxé studied interior design there and then industrial design at Milan Polytechnic. 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 since 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.

Dedicated to inventing “brilliantly simple ideas of a curious seriousness”, Marti Guixé divides his time between his native Barcelona and Berlin. Dubbing himself an “ex-designer”, he designs products for Authentics and shoe shops for Camper as well as conceptual projects.

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.