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Abel de Benito. Cofounder of 2creativo.net:
 "We are two designers; we run a strategically designed graphic and industrial design studio. We are partners".

Mariona López. Cofounder of 2creativo.net
"We started a few years ago. Abel and I both had our own jobs and, in the evenings, we used to meet up and do freelance projects. Bit by bit these became increasingly bigger until we decided to look for our own space.

We were looking for somewhere to use as a base in Distrito22@ and we found this place, bright and great, but it needed renovation work and for that we needed finance. We went to Barcelona Activa with our business plan so that we would get the support and help needed to look for funding. They advised us to look at the idea of microcredit loans with MicroBank.

Microcredit loans enabled us to take this qualitative leap, because the new space needed an investment in order to be able to adapt it. It was an industrial warehouse, with no installations, nothing…, and we wanted it to be nice, to be a setting that defined our style a bit and that, in some way, would enable us to transmit what we are.

We design promotional pieces or objects, furniture…, and especially items that make people’s lives easier.

Some projects require collaboration from others; so our team is very flexible.

Thanks to the leap we took we were finalists in the Barcelona Entrepreneurial Capital Awards and the DIBA Awards for best business initiatives.

This year we are taking our leap into foreign waters and we are attending a fair in Hong Kong, where we will start to break into foreign markets."

Abel de Benito
35 years old
Distrito 22@ - Barcelona
2creativo.net. Strategically designed graphic and industrial design studio

Mariona López
30 years old
Distrito 22@ - Barcelona
2creativo.net. Strategically designed graphic and industrial design studio

Micro-loans for business benefit from a guarantee issued under the Framework Program for Innovation and Competitiveness of the European Community.

MicroBank
Social Bank, "la Caixa"