Marta Ríos is a multi-disciplinary conceptual product confused designer and researcher jokester artist uncertified Tour Guide based in Rotterdam. Her work sits at the intersection between parallel lines design and comedy .

She recently got expelled graduated took a gap year from the Social Design master’s program at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her graduation project, titled “A Designer Walks Into A Bar Unemployment Mordor Depression ”, it’s been successfully acclaimed by her grandmother Charito.

Her practice explores design as a form of comedy. In an environment where designers are conditioned to portray themselves as problem-solvers superheroes cool people , Marta’s work questions this by shifting the viewer’s attention to the flaws in an object's making and its makers.

Marta’s current fascinations are kites, GIF’s and writing about herself in third person complaining about the weather untangling her headphones . She is also one half of design-critique-turned-design-comedy duo The Ironing Board.