Silvia Ferpal

Silvia Fernández Palomar is a multidisciplinary designer and artist based in Madrid.

In her studio she develops graphic projects dealing with branding, digital UI/UX, paper, a lot of notebooks and stationery.  

Her interest in how things are made and interconnected has led her to develop an object-based approach close to Surrealism. She plays with the qualities within the artwork taking them to the extreme, altering or suppressing them. She explores the concept of limit, signs and codes taking inspiration from user instructions and board games. Most of her graphic pieces recall diagrams, maps or plans where abstract information seems to be part of the code of the medium, although her creative process starts from observation and is fed by daily life events and objects.

Silvia has worked in Madrid and New York for studios and consultancies such as Ogilvy and Designit. She has exhibited in venues such as the Museo de las Artes Decorativas (Madrid), the Academy of Spain (Rome), the Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao) and the FRAC Centre (Orléans), among others. She has publications from Turner, Santillana (US), Corraini (IT) and has worked for clients such as Harvard, the Venice Biennale and the Picasso Museum Barcelona. 

She is Programme Lead and teacher of graphic design projects at IED (European Institute of Design) and holds online courses on Domestika. In 2019, she developed a project on Bruno Munari’s “Unreadable Books’ thanks to a scholarship offered by the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome.

In 2020, she created the Ferpal Sans, a versatile font family designed for signage of Madrid and inspired by the ceramic signs of the city streets. 

In 2019 she was awarded with the Spanish National Design Award.