Layla is a Brazilian-Dutch designer based in Brussels and a 2025 graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven. She creates projects around the stories she wants to tell.

Raised in Rio de Janeiro, she grew up in a city where heat extends beyond the climate into its culture and social friction. The coexistence of beauty and hardship, alongside years spent in Europe within an international community, shaped her into both an observer and a shape-shifter. This duality fostered a critical yet empathetic lens through which she sees and questions the world around her.

Curiosity and experimentation guide her work, allowing the process itself to become a source of discovery rather than simply a means of execution. She is drawn to the unfamiliar, whether in materials, techniques, or themes, and to questioning the assumptions embedded within them — like writing portfolio texts in the third person.

I have a transformative, sensitive, and aware energy that puts objects, norms, and systems into perspective. I seek to develop my practice with a stronger focus on strategy, always moved by wonder.