Born in Spain in 1960, Jordi Vilardell studied Industrial Design at the Escola Superior de Disseny i d'Art Llotja. After some years of professional experience as a designer at a lighting company, in 1998 he opened his own studio in Barcelona, where he developed his decorative and technical lighting projects. He collaborated with the Vibia brand, for which he designed a large collection of lamps, including the Wind collection, with which he won the Best Outdoor Light for the Design Award 2012 of the magazine Wallpaper. In 2008 he began working with designer Meritxell Vidal, with whom he created new projects for Vibia.