Studio.Kim

Studio.Kim I'm an independen graphic designer, and visual artist based in Barcelona and South Africa.

Independent graphic designer, and visual artist based in Barcelona and South Africa. I work in the field of visual identity design, visual art, illustration, painting, and web design. My work combines traditional graphic design techniques with contemporary graphics, typography, illustration, and styling. I'm also a full-time painter and illustrator, creating pieces for private and commercial use.

All illustrations are available to purchase as museum quality fine art prints, available in three sizes. For custom illustrations, collaborations, or commissions get in touch!

29/05/2026

New Balance Grey Days 🌚
I love a photo booth moment.
And making chaotic reels ✌🏼

Always a pleasure

21/05/2026

Over the years, my practice has evolved at the intersection of high-craft visual identity, physical textiles, and digital experiences. I design cohesive visual languages that tell a story across every medium.

​The new website is live, showcasing a curation of past projects, artist collaborations, and digital systems.

​📩 Now booking freelance projects and open to permanent remote roles. Let's connect—link in bio!

08/05/2026

New site is live at kimvanvuuren.com 🌀

Built this to mirror how I actually work — fluid, fast, and never static. If you're looking for a studio partner who can shape-shift between brand identity, web, UI/UX, illustration, strategy and motion — let's talk.

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https://www.kimvanvuuren.com/NEW SITE 🌀I’ve created a new portfolio for my work across design art and tech.I wanted a sp...
07/05/2026

https://www.kimvanvuuren.com/

NEW SITE 🌀
I’ve created a new portfolio for my work across design art and tech.

I wanted a space that felt as dynamic as my process. It’s a work in progress, designed to be a place where I can showcase new experiments and high-craft projects the moment they’re ready.

Current focus: Im actively looking for new projects and clients.

It’s messy, it’s moving, and it’s finally live. Check it out, spread the word :)

New work. ​Directors Cut. identity for Garden of Maia is built on a balance of opposites: sharp, square details to repre...
24/04/2026

New work. ​Directors Cut. identity for Garden of Maia is built on a balance of opposites: sharp, square details to represent the technical side of landscaping.

​It’s tech-driven landscaping, rooted in a human
I loved crafting this 💚
More soon!

New work. ​The identity for Garden of Maia is built on a balance of opposites: sharp, square details to represent the te...
23/04/2026

New work. ​The identity for Garden of Maia is built on a balance of opposites: sharp, square details to represent the technical side of landscaping, paired with rounded edges for a friendly, approachable user experience.
​It’s tech-driven landscaping, rooted in a human touch.

Directors cut. I loved crafting this identity 💚
More soon!

​ GeometricDesign

21/04/2026

Created in real time listening to my friend's track — - pure instinct, no plan. Like the automatism the Surrealists used.

Under 10 minutes, start to finish.

This is a personal project. Artworks will be sold to raise funds for artists.

Garden of Maia — a brand identity concept I developed independently, and the version I believed in.The brief: Aesop meet...
20/04/2026

Garden of Maia — a brand identity concept I developed independently, and the version I believed in.

The brief: Aesop meets IKEA.

The wordmark is cubic, pixelated, a little unexpected — something that says tech product while still feeling alive. Legible at any size, fun to print large or small, it holds its own on a white background or sitting inside the gradient palette. Quirky but polished. The kind of mark that makes you look twice.

The colour system moves — gradients over solids, tone shifting into tone. And the imagery direction followed that same logic: flowers slightly out of focus, edges soft, colour bleeding into colour. Dreamlike. Not pretty in a predictable way. The kind of image that makes you feel like you just woke up in a garden you've never been to.

This one stays mine. ✦ directors cut. We changed the name to Tuin van Maia.

I'm Kim — art director, graphic designer, illustrator, painter. 14 years of building brands, creating collections, and m...
15/04/2026

I'm Kim — art director, graphic designer, illustrator, painter. 14 years of building brands, creating collections, and making things that last.

Working across fashion, culture, Tech, and the spaces where craft actually matters.

This year i'm going all in on the work i want to be known for — brand identity, art direction, and design for studios and brands who take their visual world seriously.

New website coming soon. if you're building something worth making properly, let's talk.


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Working on something very special. ✨I’m deep in the process of building a new portfolio, new collections for my collabor...
28/02/2026

Working on something very special. ✨

I’m deep in the process of building a new portfolio, new collections for my collaborators, and another international clothing collaboration dropping this spring.

Plus, I’m finally painting again and busy with some new pieces. I’ve also become obsessed with kinetic type—adding movement to my long list of skills 🤓

On the personal side, a late neurodivergent (ADHD & RSD) diagnosis has been a massive realization. And is slowly changing my life. It’s been a very long, hard road, but also such a profound relief.

Meeting so many creative women going through the same journey has been incredibly humbling—and exciting! If I had known, oh god, it would have spared me so much trauma 😅 But I am here now, and that's all that matters. What happens next!

For my entire life, it was a lonely experience living with a mind that felt like it was against me every single day. But now? I finally understand the way I’m wired. I LOVE my brain. And I LOVE myself more than anything.

So grateful I get to wake up every day and have so much to offer...

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