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# Source material: Graphic designer Aitana Picó wants us to appreciate bad trends

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## Summary

A Q&A interview series from Figma's blog features designer and visual artist Aitana Picó discussing her creative influences, process, and inspirations. She talks about mixing up her childhood career answer, being tired of design trends moving too fast (and of AI), her messy Figma files, dreams that inspire her work, and artists whose imaginative worlds she admires like Robert Valley and Nadia Lee Cohen.

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