potipoti
potipoti is a collaboration between two designers, Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo. Operating from Berlin, potipoti creates fashion, graphic design, 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 around the world. Their work has been featured in books as "Fashion Unfolding" or "Graphics Alive" by Victionary or magazines like Neo2, Collezioni Sport & Street, Pig or WAD.
Potipoti has worked in partnership with companies such as Mazda or General Optica, developing diverse projects like a complete collection of eye-wear as 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), Germany and Portugal, and they can been found in selected stores around the world, in their own shop in Berlin (Rosenthalerstr. 66) and online at www.potipoti.com
The Spanish designer duo potipoti moved its new shop to Rosenthaler Straße 66 (Berlin-Mitte) between Rosenthaler Platz and Hackescher Markt, an area, where an international audience finds its way through the streets on their discovering tour. The store windows to the street present the colourful and graphical potipoti design as well as a fine selection of international designers from casual to glamorous. Besides potipoti, these are labels like La Casita de Wendy, Makinjanma, El Delgado Buil and Cecilia Sörensen; as well as shoes from KTW, selected pieces of jewelry by Colourette and handmade single pieces like bags and shoes of Gent&Suarez.
Text: Patricia Yagüe