Claudia Menéndez

Claudia Menéndez is a multidisciplinary artist and designer from Guatemala City whose work moves between pattern design, hand-beaded accessories and ceramics. She trained in video editing before turning to design, and describes her practice as an exploration of colour across analogue and digital techniques, from printmaking, embroidery and weaving to 3D animation and pixel art.

Her studio is organised in three lines: Nebula Patterns, a library of repeat patterns; Nebula Handmade, hand-beaded bags and accessories produced with the Pura Útz workshop in Santiago Atitlán on a fair-payment model; and Nebula Home, home accessories made in Guatemala. In 2026 she developed Tejiendo Color, the outer textile skin of the Guatemala Designs by Hand installation at Milan Design Week, made with glass beads, digital tools and artisans from Lake Atitlán.