Collage / Illustration
Paper Cuts — Portrait
2025
A portrait built entirely from magazine clippings, using small color-matched fragments to recreate the subject’s features, tones, and expression.
MILKA
GÁLVEZ
Visual Communication
Industrial Design & Illustration
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I solve problems through the disciplines you least expect.
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designerillustratormakeralways experimenting
Hi, I'm Milka.
I am a designer who likes to question the obvious. I tend to take things apart, look at them from another angle, and see what happens when I approach them differently.
I’m an Industrial Designer specialized in Technology with a growing interest in products, illustration, and storytelling. Working across these disciplines has taught me that a good idea is only part of the process — how it is communicated can shape the way people understand, connect with, and experience it. I’m interested in finding that visual language, whether through an object, an image, or a story.
A little thing about me: I love traveling and taking photos of the places I visit.
How I see
OBJECT
things you can holdForm, material, mechanism. Designing something physical that behaves the way a person expects it to.
IMAGE
things you can read at a glanceComposition, colour, hierarchy. Making complex ideas legible before anyone reads a word.
STORY
things you rememberNarrative, character, sequence. Giving an idea a shape people can carry with them.
Sometimes a problem needs a product.
Sometimes it needs an image.
Sometimes it needs a story.
SMALL PROJECTS
side experiments, kept on purpose
Graphic design / Apparel
Photo day — T-shirt Design
2026
A custom T-shirt design created for a graduation photography studio, bringing a playful graphic identity to their photo days.
Editorial / Illustration
Pride and Prejudice — Book cover
2026
Book cover design for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I designed a soft blue hardcover edition with a simple visual style and an original illustration.
WORK IN PROGRESSa small paper theatre
A STORY IN THE MAKING
An illustrated children's book exploring empathy through storytelling and visual language. The project aims to help children understand and connect with others' emotions, encouraging them to see situations from different perspectives.
Everything starts on paper.
The drawings, tests and dead ends behind the projects, a layer that usually stays hidden.
opens on top of this pageHOW I THINK
“not a timeline — a map”I don't follow a fixed process. I follow the idea.
I don't have one way of working.
I usually figure things out by making.
I let ideas change.
I look for connections where they aren't obvious.
- look longer
NOTICE
I start by noticing something small, strange or overlooked.
- why like this?
QUESTION
I question what seems obvious and ask why it has to work that way.
- bad ideas allowed
PLAY
I experiment before trying to make things perfect.
- hands know things
MAKE
I often think through making — sketching, modeling, illustrating, prototyping, crafting or rendering.
- unlikely pairs
CONNECT
I combine references, ideas, materials and disciplines that might not seem related at first.
- let it turn
SHIFT
I allow the idea to change instead of forcing the original concept to work.
- for now
ARRIVE
The final result comes from exploration, experimentation and unexpected connections.
I follow the idea until I understand what it wants to become.
CURRENTLY EXPLORING
- Illustration
- Visual storytelling
- Editorial design
- Children's books
- Creative technology
- Interaction
- Objects
- Communication design
- Book arts