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Pablo Gamba
Pablo Gamba is a hardworking argentine designer, illustrator and “object maker”.
Not only he draws almost everything, but also he enjoys the playful experience of messing with new materials, creating shapes out of nothing and drawing every surface no matter what.
He’s more like an artisan, we should say. He’s a joyous artisan playing freely and recklessly in different fields.
Please tell me about your career, how did you start doing what you do?
I started studying graphic design in 1996. I was so happy because I really loved studying. I used to be somewhat shy so making friends in college concerned me, but I met a lot of people. When I was little, my dad taught me how to draw. I got good grades in drawing and even worked as a teacher in college. My favorite subject was Morphology, which was very useful for my life and work. Since 2003 I’m working at Global Dardos, a marketing and communications company. For me, the most important thing at work is our team, I like working with people.
On the other hand, I’m always drawing, everywhere, all the time. At college I started working with different materials. We had to look for them in the street. I also began to create characters for people and myself. At first I didn’t know what to do but with Ana’s help I started to promote my stuff on the web.
Here’s another chapter: Ana. Her name is Ana Poggi and she’s Pablo’s girlfriend. They’ve been together for many years now and they work like two complementary perfect parts of a system. She’s great at marketing and excels at concreting her goals, so she pushes him to pursue his many creative projects, which may otherwise be lost in space.
Good for her.
“I feel that I’m still experimenting, says Pablo. I don’t have a defined style. I work in digital, in paper, with objects, collage, drawing, painting, cropping… I like everything: illustration for children, wood, paper!”
What is Nuevas Ganas?
Nuevas Ganas is a project that came out of a dinner table, we always have ideas when we go out for dinner with Ana. They are very funny refrigerator magnets and people love them! It’s a hard crafty work! Ana’s help was very important to me in this project. We really work as a team.
So you do a lot of things, you’re very versatile!
Like a pulp! I also love working with friends. My Mexican friend Macu, for example in project La Playerita Enchulada (printed t-shirts).
And with my friends Pablo and Vik from Monoblock I illustrated an Author Notebook. And with Pato Oliver and Hymnofeda we made “wachifichus”.
Despite what you said before, I think everything you do has your signature.
I just don’t see it!
Have you thought about creating animated characters for a movie?
I’ve been already told that, you know. Someday I’ll do it.
Where do you find inspiration?
At the beginning it was definitely Tim Burton and some other illustrators. It was always very intuitive for me. Ana inspires me a lot also. And I love toys from my childhood.
Tell me about your projects.
Well, my last projects were a couple of exhibitions of my work. One of them was last year at Centro Cultural San Martin, and the other one at El Diente de Oro, this June. They had great repercussions. My current project right now is La Dominga, the house of objects we opened a couple of months ago. We sell stuff from different designers and I also sell my paintings there. We’re very into it.
Before I leave and when I thought everything was already said, Pablo told me his big secret.
“When I was young I had a friend just around the corner. There were many vacant lots in the neighborhood and we went there with my friend and built huts, and even had a tree house. There was also a huge well, like a cave.
I’ve always liked animals and we collected animal skulls”.
I’m not going to reveal how they got those skulls. But after this story, I can confirm Pablo is a special artist, one that keeps his childhood memories vividly at hand so they can cohabit with new toys, beautiful lights, bright colors and a whole new universe not yet discovered.
Pablo Gamba
http://www.pgamba.com.ar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablogamba
Text: Gisella Lifchitz
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