potipoti

potipoti is a collaboration between two designers, Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo. Operating from Berlin (Germany) and Spain, potipoti creates fashion graphics and design, drawings, visual arts and product design.

The story of this duo begins in Salamanca, a university town in Northern Spain where both were graduating in Fine Arts. After working in Madrid as art directors for various studios, they moved to Berlin in 2001, which has been their home base ever since.

The studio-label potipoti was founded in 2005. Their distinctive aesthetic for graphics is reflected in their fashion designs. Collections have been shown in various exhibitions and catwalks like El Ego de Pasarela Cibeles (Madrid), Mustang Fashion Weekend (FIB, Benicassim), Pictoplasma (Berlin), Pasarela Abierta (Murcia)... and their work has been featured in books as "Fashion Unfolding" or "Graphics Alive" by Victionary or magazines like Neo2, Pig or WAD.

Potipoti has worked in partnership with companies such as Mazda o General Optica, developing diverse projects like a complete collection of eye-wear, a result of the IV Contest of Upcoming Designer "Linea De". Their latest project has been a collection of stationers and notebooks with Labor Viva, a company devoted to hire and give work to handicapped.

The label manufactures its fashion products in small and reliable textile companies from Castilla y Leon (Spain) and Portugal, and they can been found in selected stores in Sweden, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, Spain... in important boutiques like Wood Wood Berlin, Henrik Vibskov Store Copenhagen, Doshaburi in Barcelona or Ships in Tokyo and always at www.potipoti.com

There is always a bit of a fable in potipoti's designs. In their latest collection for Autumn Winter 08, Totem, there is a pinch of folklore and a lot of imagination. The use of graphics and the shape of garments improves in each season. They bring from icy Berlin this their fifth and most grown up to date collection, a very colorful set of designs inspired in Native Americans Totems of polichromated wood as well as on vintage wooden toys. Beige, black, navy blue and colorful prints are the signature of this collection. Cotton and mohair, silk and micro-corduroy the fabrics.