Maria Mur is a young Graphic Designer currently based in Bilbao, Spain. Her work reflects a balance between innovation and heritage with a hands-on approach.

This project explores the intersection of nature, culture, and tradition in the formation of human identities, focusing on how beliefs and natural environments interact through relational networks of organisms, microbiomes, and cultural contexts. Taking Montserrat as a case study, it investigates how biological and cultural elements intertwine to create collective identities. The project combines scientific research on the local microbiome with the study of liturgy, aiming to translate this fusion into a visual system that represents the union of nature and culture.

Chromotype is an experimental typeface that originates from the invisible structure found in the petal of a flower. Its chromo (color) comes from the visible pigments (chromoplasts), and its type (shape) is generated from the nectar guides used to direct pollinators. This is what creates a typeface designed to experiment with volumes, densities, and layers within a composition. It extends beyond the character to a more complex system that can easily be used for illustrative purposes.

Amongst Lorenzo Zoppo, we designed the graphics for the IED exhibition held at Florence's design week, Pitti Uomo. The graphics were used in print but also as part of the digital part of the exhibition. The gradients and shapes were transformed into controllers activated through human motion.

This project reimagines the traditional artisanal process of making the Aragonese mantón de baturra. Through 3D printing as a new method of digital production, I propose its creation starting from the graphic designer’s smallest unit: the pixel. The final result is a mantón de baturra inspired by the traditional legends of San Miguel from my grandparents’ village, Torrecilla de Alcañiz. The creative process involves illustration and the 3D printing of 36 independent PLA sheets, which are hand-joined using heat.

Suvenir is a curated cultural magazine by Julia González Saiz and Maria Mur. Its purpose is to bring new Bilbao artists to the spotlight and give them a space to share thoughts and ideas freely.As curators we interview, write, edit and design the issue to show to the young public of the city, invigorating creation in Bilbao.

This project explores how two people, even when sharing the same space, perceive and remember things differently. We take photographs from our individual perspectives, capturing what each of us considers meaningful in the moment. These images are then altered, highlighting what our memories have retained and modifying what has been forgotten or distorted. The resulting album reflects both viewpoints, revealing how memory fragments and transforms, and how—even when based on a shared, singular experience—it evolves in an individual way.

This is a fictional campaign shot for a fragrance made by the high fashion brand Vivienne Westwood. The concept exploits the explicitness and sourness the brand represents through a video shot at night with high saturation and rithm through a frame by frame recording. Another part of the campaign is the promotional short form video for social media. With it a magazine add and a few campaign shots as well as two posters.

In collaboration between IED and Yorokobu this map illustrates my favourite places in Bilbao. From traditional pastry shops to highly known spaces I present this as the ultimate guide to the city. The map was shared through Yorokobu's social media and online magazine and was also printed as part of the design festival SerifaLaris 2024 as an entry gift.

Terrabaixa is a personal photography project that tries to express the feeling of a small village and its current context through depopulation. It is a testimony of those that were and are and the space that divides individuals in a small village dynamic.