Cristina Alonso(Yecla, Murcia)and Isaac Pi?eiro(Pontevedra)set up their Valencia-based studio,Nadadora,en 2006.Cristina,a graphic design graduate from the Valencia design school,Escuela de Arte y Superior de Dise?o,collaborated with the design departments of Luzifer Lamps and the studio Dídac Ballester Disseny,while first setting up Nadadora.Isaac,a design product graduate,studied at the same college as Cristina. He then did an MA in industrial design at Milan Polytechnic,studying alongside such fledgling designers as Odoardo Fioravanti, Huub Ubbens and Matali Crasset.Nadadora’s work – which encompasses graphics, furniture and lighting – values conceptual honesty and formal simplicity above all. For the past two years, together with the studio, Pedro Ochando, they’ve organised an exhibition of young Spanish designers called Zoco.They’ve taken part in exhibitions and conferences in Spanish cities and in others around the world, such as Milan,Helsinki,Seoul,Paris and New York.
