Franca Mandiola is a Designhead
A moment of pure creative joy: when night falls and i'm sad, or happy
Designheads is a profile series featuring members of our community and their relationship to the world of design.
We are definitely the kind of publication that loves a crossover episode, so we’re thrilled to be featuring designers/designheads who love to dabble across categorical lines. It’s also exciting to be able to feature creatives from Ciudad de México (CDMX) who are building upon a historical legacy of design and craftsmanship (like today’s designhead) and creating contemporary visions for fashion, furniture, and beyond in Mexico and across the world.
Today’s designhead is Franca Mandiola, a CDMX-based Chilean designer whose work spans visual, product, clothing and more. Franca’s clothing brand, confidente, blends feelings both sentimental and cheeky, with text-centric graphics that capture an ever-relevant feeling of closeness and ennui. Read on to explore Franca’s answers to our Designheads queries <3
Name: Franca Mandiola
Age: 24
Location: I’m from Chile, but I live in CDMX
Instagram: @franca________________
Site: https://www.behance.net/francisisca
Are you a designer? I think so, defining the design is quite complex since it has multiple edges, but creating realities and/or executing ideas are a part of it, so I would say yes.
The last thing you made: a coffee
The next thing you want to make: get a new kewpie
A design object you love: Braun TP1 (1959)
A design object you can’t stand the sight of: empty alcohol bottles as if they were decoration
A moment of pure creative joy: when night falls and i'm sad, or happy
When we say “designing the future,” what comes to mind? The words design and future together make me think of massification, democratization of design and exploitation.
Your aesthetic embodied as a ...
song: MELÔ DO YEAH | DJ G2G X JOÃO LÁGRIMA DE OURO
color: the whole spectrum of colors
texture: glossy reptile
If you could own one iconic design work, I would buy: a wig by tomikono and a piece of furniture by @lauracatherinesoto
If you could show your work to anyone in the world, it would be: always my mom. also to Jennifer Coolidge
What’s next for you? my brand
Are you a designhead? Write us at hello@pinkessay.space to be featured <3