We interviewed you in 2001 in the issue featuring Spanish designers. Only three years have gone since that time but do you think your activity or working style and the environment around you (design industry/web) has changed? If so, how is changed?

Yes, of course it has changed, – it has become three years older. It has matured, many companies have fallen by the way, but a few keep pushing out good work and that is the point to survive, time acts as a filter between solid and weak work.
For Vasava, these three years have been a time to make the studio more professional, and commissioned international works have increased, which makes us happy. However, we have kept the studio to a small size, we do not want to be a 200 person company where the special touch is lost.

Barcelona has been chosen for a place to hold several international festival such as CMYK, SONAR and OFFF, so we guess we could say this city is a meeting point of international design. Could you give me your opinion why Barcelona (Spain) has developed as such place?

It’s amazing how many Festivals and events are happening lately in Barcelona. We are not sure of how all this can be summed up but it makes sense when you go deep into the Barcelona strategy and you realize that is a city that is making a brand of itself. You add warm weather and open-minded citizens hungry for culture and new things, and you get that brand new Barcelona. Probably, the influence of immigration is one of the drivers for this movement.

What’s the concept of this issue’s Shift cover design?

Its a representation of heaven, in this case Internet’s heaven, The mouth is the audience feeling when looking at Shift, slobbering in front a new issue.

Your studio looks fun with green floor and pinball game. Is there any vogue among you (Vasava staff) at the moment? (any game, word, fashion, whatever..)

Recently, we have discovered that we can play studio-squash using a table tennis ball and racquets on a free wall. That’s our main leisure occupation now.

Is there any plan or things you want to challenge from now on?

Vasava Artworks’ first solo exhibition at ARTAZART (83, Quai de Valmy, Paris) will be held from May 6th to 26th, 2004 showing retrospective of our works and an introduction to our 1X1 book. I hope that all the Parisiens will come to visit it!
Also for 2005, we are looking for a new place for the studio and to set up a VA Leisure showroom-shop there.

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Vasava Artworks
Address: Travessera de Gracia 314, 08025 Barcelona
Tel: +34 93 539 6430
vasava@vasava.es
https://www.vasava.es