Band-Aid Boy, created by Barbara Carreño while studying product design, was exhibited at the Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area.
Barbara Carreño, who graduated in June with a degree in product design from the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, likes to express her feelings through art. She began exhibiting her creations, which she refers to as “toy art,” in 2009, in her native Venezuela. She’s since held exhibitions in Barcelona and Philadelphia, where she moved in 2014.
Last fall while still a student, she showed her work in an exhibit called A Peek Into the Unusual Imagination of Microbarbi: An Exhibit Featuring her Fantastical Creations and Highlighting Rare Local Antique Toy Collections, at the Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area.
“Basically my stuff is kind of like a world of emotions. It’s about giving life to your emotions, with or without faces.” — BARBARA CARREÑO BS product design ’18