The first word I learned to say is guaita. My paternal grandmother would take me for a walk in the trolley, and as we wandered around she would point at things with her finger and say: “Guaita Laia, guaita!”. She spoke a particular Catalan, she would say guaita instead of mira (look at). Guaitar means to watch carefully, analysing what is observed. Vigilant. Jo guaito 👀️ 

/ˈgwaj.tə/ 




ABOUT

NOTEBOOK 💬️

RESEARCH BIENNALE

Alternative Explorer Performs an Algofiction


SAN MEI GALLERY

Collective Ritual of Longing


DIS/CONNECT

Communication in the Age of Isolation


METAL

El Arte de Hackear


MANIFEST INFÀNCIA I PANTALLES

El risc de les pantalles


ON THE DESK

ADG Laus


HANDLE WITH CARE

Actas BAU Design Forum 2017


© 2023 Laia Miret



TOP MANTA


PROJECT

Nadie es ilegal


CREATIVE DIRECTION

D&AD IMPACT

Graphite Pencil


FIAP SHORTLIST 

2018

PlayGround Do team worked with the Sindicato Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes for more than 10 months, helping them create a company, a fashion brand and a collection. The aim of the project was to find a way to get legal permits in order to be able to work in Spain. The ‘manteros’ already had an idea: Top Manta.

We organized afterwork workshops to help them learn assets on branding, illustration, printing... Famous designers and illustrators were interested in collaborating but, at the stage, we considered that giving them tools to develop everything by themselves was urgent.

 



The launch of the brand and the collection was celebrated with an event that ended up on a catwalk, where the ‘manteros’ modeled while exhibiting their very own clothing. A background video of the sea was projected while they where walking, as most of them left Senegal by boat, being the first time ever they had seen the ocean, to start a new life in Europe.


PLAYGROUND DO (STRATEGY)
CRISTIAN PALAZZI: CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR
ALBA MUÑOZ: PROJECT MANAGER
GEMMA SUNYER: LEGAL ADVISOR

A. TEAM (CREATIVITY)
LAIA MIRET: CREATIVE DIRECTOR
BLANCA FERNANDEZ: ART DIRECTOR
LAIA CANADA: DESIGNER, PHOTOGRAPHER
ANTON ALBITSKIY: DESIGNER, PHOTOGRAPHER

EVENT ORGANIZERS:
GABRIEL LAMA OLIART
SANDRA NAVARRO
GISELA FITÉ
MAHALA COMUNICACIÓN

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