Keys, a wallet, a crumpled-up receipt is what most people carry in their back pocket but Sofia Elias carries a well-used, spine-broken sketchbook. For the Mexican designer and multidisciplinary artist, this little ‘pocketbook’ as she refers to it, is a record of inspiration, references, materials and ideas that all feed into her hungry imagination.
Elias, who is based in Mexico City, told Wallpaper*, ‘I realise now that when I’m in the studio, even if I don’t see it right away, all my projects connect with each other. A lot of the designing has been about playing with my hands, understanding different materials, exploring how they interact, and how this informs the “use” of each piece. My doodles and scribbles act as the blueprints for my designs.'
