WAWA Design
Op Art Artist & 3D-Print Designer, Barcelona
Illusions are my passion.
WAWA Design History & Studio
Studio Practice | Illusion Addicted
Valentina works from a Barcelona studio under the name WAWA Design. The practice is built around op art: prints that shimmer like holograms when you walk past them. Around the prints she keeps painting, silkscreen, watercolour, alcohol ink, iPad drawing, and a steady run of graphic-design commissions. More recently she added 3D printing, modelling parts in Fusion 360 and printing them in PLA, a corn-based bioplastic. She tags herself on her own profile in two words and has kept them there for years: *illusion addicted*.
WAWA Cacti and the Christmas Flags
The hand-built lines began as gifts for friends and turned into small product runs over time. WAWA Cacti are sculpted art toys topped with disco balls, each one built from scratch. They have become the studio's most recognisable object. The Christmas flag sets started the same way: three years of hand-drawing for friends, then a proper seasonal release. The Story Highlights on her account show how she keeps the disciplines apart: Prints, 3D printing, WAWA🌵, Christmas flags, Watercolor, Silkscreen, Alcohol ink, iPad drawing, Surfskate. Each one runs in parallel rather than replacing the others.
Designer Tees and Sant Jordi
In October 2025 she finished a full merch collection of designer T-shirts for the musician Sonya Shats. Each shirt was built around a reference to one of her songs. For Sant Jordi, the Catalan festival of books, roses, and dragons, she releases 3D-printed bookmarks every spring, themed to that year's calendar. Prices on the studio's published work run from around five euros for printed objects up to about sixty for larger op art pieces.
Handmade
Every op art print is designed in the studio. Every WAWA Cactus is sculpted from scratch by hand. Every Christmas flag set is hand-drawn before any reproduction.
Small Batch
WAWA Cacti, Christmas flag sets, and Sant Jordi bookmarks are released in limited seasonal runs. Collaborative merch drops are produced once and not repeated.
Sustainable Materials
3D-printed objects use PLA, a corn-based bioplastic. The analog disciplines (watercolour, alcohol ink, silkscreen) are practised in the studio alongside the digital tools, not replaced by them.
