Barcelona
Alumni Stories – Paula Font Creixell
Where were you born?
Where do you live?
Barcelona
What did you study during your time at Elisava?
Where do you work?
I work as a freelancer, mainly designing stage sets for theater productions and occasionally working as a costume designer.
What has your professional path been like?
Before doing the Master’s at Elisava, I worked as a freelance interior designer, wrote for an online design magazine, and managed an ephemeral architecture event.
After the Master’s, I started with an internship as a set design assistant to my tutor, Sebastià Brosa. In the following years, small commissions gradually started coming in, mostly in more independent theaters.
Today, I combine assisting on large-scale projects with working on more alternative plays or productions in smaller venues.
What is design to you?
To me, design is connection. We are constantly designing—how we wake up in the morning, how we dress, how we move, what we cook, what we envision for ourselves. It’s a way of life; we are all designing all the time. Some of us are just lucky enough to do it professionally.
Design is communication. It’s about bringing awareness and emotion into the utilitarian. That’s why it’s connection—because through design you make what surrounds you visible, tangible, and meaningful, placing it at the service of others.
Who inspires you professionally?
I don’t have specific design references that inspire me; instead, I’m drawn to certain ways of working that resonate with my own approach.
Anyone who does their work with honesty, humility, and dedication inspires me. I’m inspired by people who choose to make their work—whatever it may be—worthwhile every single day.
How would you describe your time at Elisava?
Elisava is like a nest—an ideal place to spread your wings once you leave, and somewhere you can always come back to.
What has stayed with you the most from what you learned at Elisava?
Realizing that effort and consistency will always take you to the right place.
One piece of advice
Trust the process, always. Let go of projects in order to grow.
A future challenge
To further diversify my profile.