Lidia Puig, former student of the Design Degree, presents her Final Project Distype within the framework of the exhibition Matter Matters. Designing with the World on Tuesday, October 7 at 6 p.m. at the Espai Mirador of the Disseny Hub Barcelona. The event will feature the presence of Olga Subirós, curator of the exhibition.
Distype is a typographic experimentation project that uses climate change as a driver of formal and discursive transformation. Through the simulation of its effects, six alphabets are created that show how rising temperatures alter the original typography and generate new forms. The process and results are collected in a graphic piece between typographic specimen and publication. This final project of the Design Degree, tutored by Laia Clos and Pilar Górriz, received a Laus Gold Students award.
Lidia Puig’s project has been selected in the first call of Matèria Prima, organized by the Museu del Disseny and aimed at design schools throughout the territory.
This first edition is part of the Matter Matters exhibition and invites us to rethink design from a new relationship with matter, understanding it not as an inert resource, but as an active agent with its own agency. From all the projects submitted, the jury selected 8, which will be divided into 2 exhibition periods.
From October 2025 until the end of March 2026, the following projects will be exhibited:
Laia Badia (LCI Barcelona) – Caducifolium. Ephemeral fashion collection made with homemade biomaterials that degrade like living organisms.
David Cejudo (Escola Massana) – El resto. Nomadic device created with urban waste, reclaiming the outskirts as a living, material, and political space.
Lidia Puig (Eina) – Distype. Typographic experimentation with climate change as an agent of formal and discursive transformation.
Alex Zambudio (ESDI) – INARI. Biodegradable protector for olive trees, made with biomaterials derived from olive pit waste.
From March until September 2026, the following works will be exhibited:
Judith Aubà (IED) – Caliu. Modular system of cork and wood for insulation and space configuration, with social and territorial impact.
Àngela Escudero, Carla Olivares, Carolina Costa (Elisava) – Bot Pollution. Educational chatbot that shows the environmental impact of digital interaction in real time.
Fran Niubó (ESDAPC) – Yutori. Dismountable and recyclable footwear inspired by the Mallorcan pigsty and the Japanese philosophy of conscious design.
Alba Prinz (BAU) – Sobre la màquina una ventada. Textile project co-created with natural agents such as wind, water or heat, exploring the boundary between the natural and the artificial.
The jury particularly valued those projects that approach matter from an experimental, poetic, sustainable, and regenerative perspective, proposing other ways of making and thinking with the world.
Lidia Puig
Lidia Puig
Lidia Puig