ANTON & IRENE

Anton & Irene will be represented by Irene Pereyra.

Irene Pereyra is the co-founder of the independent design studio Anton & Irene and part of the Danish think tank 21st Europe, where she works at the intersection of design and policy. She is the author of Universal Principles of UX (Quarto, 2023), with a second book, The Accessible Design Reference & Specification Book, forthcoming in 2026, and is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

She is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as AGI Open, DesignThinkers, and AIGA, and co-chairs the Interaction Design Master’s program at Harbour.Space in Barcelona and Bangkok. She also teaches Ethical, Accessible & Mindful Design in the Master’s in Digital Experience Design program at ECAL.

At Forward Festival, Irene will share how her work has expanded beyond client practice with 21st Europe into civic design, exploring Europe itself as a design project and examining how designers can help make policy, infrastructure, and public systems more visible, understandable, and open to imagination.