"In 2050 I will be 100 years old"
Mariscal's life is a love story with drawing.

Graphic designer, illustrator, furniture designer, filmmaker, painter, sculptor, Javier Mariscal is an artist who loves challenges. An irreverent artist whose existence has been guided by the word "freedom". He draws in any corner everything he sees. His style is impulsive and carefree and he moves with ease in different techniques and media. 

His first comic strip was published in the mid 70's in several fanzines of the time. He played a very active role in the Movida and in the visual revolution of Spanish comics with his characters Los Garriris (1974). 

He began to be considered a leading designer with the design of the "Bar cel ona" logo created in 1979 and he designed the Duplex stool that was exhibited at the iconic Milan exhibition (1981) organized by Ettore Sottsass of the Memphis Group.

In 1989 he opened Estudio Mariscal, the first multidisciplinary studio in Spain, before creating one of his most famous designs: Cobi, the mascot used at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Mariscal won the "Premio Nacional de Diseño" in 1999 and in 2006 became an honorary member of the Royal Design Industry.

Designer, he has carried out one project after another and has exhibited at the Pompidou Center in Paris, Documenta in Kassel, with retrospective exhibitions at the Design Museum in London, La Pedrera in Barcelona and in Korea. In 1989 he founded Estudio Mariscal, a multidisciplinary space and shortly before he created one of his best known designs, COBI, mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. 

"All colors are beautiful and all disciplines are beautiful. In all of them the base is drawing, so they are not opposite things. I feel comfortable in all of them and I like to work in all of them, without distinction."

He has illustrated several covers of the New Yorker, has worked with publishers such as Phaidon and has developed graphic identities for a multitude of brands, including the Swedish Socialist Party, The Cornan Shop, Framestore, Bancaja, Onda Cero Radio, Barcelona Zoo, the 32nd America's Cup, Camper and the integral design of one of the H&M stores in Barcelona. His career includes the design of the graphic image of "Los Amantes pasajeros" film by Pedro Almodovar. 

His product designs are present in the furniture brands Moroso, Memphis, BD Ediciones de Diseño, Nani Marquina, Bidasoa, Vondom and Magis among many others. His broad vision allows him to work on large-scale artistic interventions such as the exterior of the Glòries Shopping Center in Barcelona, a large-scale sculpture in the courtyard of the Río Hortega Hospital or the famous Hotel Domine in Bilbao, where he signed - in collaboration with Fernando Salas, the integral design of the project.

His work is in several public and private collections; MOMA, Pompidou Center, Victoria & Albert Museum, Vitra Design Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barcelona Design Museum, Lafuente Archive, IVAM, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, MACBA and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, among others.

In 2008, together with his filmmaker friend Fernando Trueba, they presented the animated film "Chico y Rita" which was internationally recognized, awarded at the Goya Awards and nominated at the 2012 Oscars. In 2023 they co-directed their second animated film "Dispararon al pianista".