Maria Pensi
The Beauty of Synthesis
Maria Pensi is a graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona who transforms everyday life into refined and balanced images. With a degree in Graphic Design, she has developed her career in the field of creative design, illustration, and branding, collaborating with brands, publishers, and cultural projects. Her clean strokes and mastery of color turn simple shapes into harmonious compositions, where each line has a purpose. Her work has been applied to various formats, from visual identities to artistic interventions in physical spaces, always with a recognizable and timeless visual language.
Artistic Manifesto
The Beauty of Synthesis
Maria Pensi is a graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona who transforms everyday life into refined and balanced images. With a degree in Graphic Design, she has developed her career in the field of creative design, illustration, and branding, collaborating with brands, publishers, and cultural projects. Her clean strokes and mastery of color turn simple shapes into harmonious compositions, where each line has a purpose. Her work has been applied to various formats, from visual identities to artistic interventions in physical spaces, always with a recognizable and timeless visual language.
For Maria Pensi, illustrating means reducing the world to its essence. Her compositions eliminate the superfluous to highlight the relationship between shapes, objects, and spaces. Through precise lines and a serene color palette, her work captures moments in their purest version: a set table, a facade covered in vegetation, an urban fragment turned into a symbol.
The Project at BYPILLOW Ramblas (Barcelona)
At BYPILLOW Ramblas, Maria Pensi has created a series of illustrations that dialogue with the city through synthesis and observation. Her works, present in rooms and common spaces, generate an atmosphere of calm and balance, in contrast with the vibrant energy of Las Ramblas.
In the rooms, her compositions distill the essence of urban life with clean shapes and subtle colors: contemporary still lifes, architectural fragments, and scenes that evoke the light and rhythm of the city. In common spaces, her stroke becomes more dynamic, capturing everyday moments with a visual language that is both minimalist and expressive. One of her most iconic images traces the silhouette of a sardine, a subtle nod to Barcelona’s Mediterranean identity.
