Section 03 / About the studio

A small studio
with strong opinions.

Viva Grafix is a graphic design and print studio based in Tenerife, working with founders, hospitality groups and small brands across the Canaries, mainland Spain and beyond.

We started Viva Grafix to build the kind of brands we kept wishing existed: confident, well-made, and sharp enough to earn attention without shouting. We work directly with the people who run the company — no account managers, no telephone-game feedback — across identity, print, and digital.

If a project's worth doing, it's worth doing in a way the client will still be proud of in five years. That's the bar.

In numbers
100%Senior on the work
20+Years in the trade
€Fixed fee, every time
28°NLatitude — Tenerife
The studio & craft

Who you'll
actually work with.

Small on purpose. Over 20 years in the trade — you work directly with the founder who designs and oversees your work, with specialists brought in only when needed.

Dom Ward — Founder & Senior Designer at Viva Grafix
Founder · Senior Designer

Dom Ward

Directs every Viva Grafix project from Tenerife. Over two decades of hands-on production craft across brand identity, print pre-press, and digital systems.

Based in Tenerife · Canaries Direct email →
Production pedigree & founder background

Twenty years around print, pre-press, and brand identity.

Viva Grafix is an independent, agile Tenerife studio founded in 2024, but the hands steering every project bring over two decades of real-world design and production experience.

Dom started out in print and web when vector bezier points were drawn by hand and press approvals meant standing beside offset litho presses checking ink densities, dot gain, and paper absorbency. Working in and around the trade across those twenty years—spanning packaging, pre-press color separations, brand identity, and custom web development—that practical, unpretentious craft has remained the constant.

That distinction matters. Viva Grafix gives clients the agility and personal care of a young studio, combined with the hard-earned intuition of someone who has spent twenty years troubleshooting print runs and building digital systems. You don't get handed off to junior staff or middle management: you work directly with the person holding the pen.

01 · Print Pre-press & finishing

Real CMYK separations, die-cuts, paper weights, foil stamping, and local print coordination.

02 · Brand Identity & systems

Original drawn marks, clear typography, and practical design rules that live well in high-traffic use.

03 · Digital Web & platforms

Fast, lightweight code, bilingual interfaces, ordering tools, and zero bloat.

How we work

Six things
we believe.

Strong, opinionated, easy to disagree with. If any of these grate, we're not the studio for you — and that's useful information.

Craft over template.

Every mark is drawn, every grid is built. No off-the-shelf logo kits. Where portfolio imagery was AI-assisted during concept development, we say so. The thinking, editing and final design decisions are human-led.

The brief is the brief.

Scope is fixed up front and held there. If the project needs to grow, we'll have an honest conversation and a fresh fee — not a quiet expansion.

Print is not an afterthought.

We design with paper, ink and finishing in mind from the first sketch. The unboxing moment is the moment a brand earns the second look.

Every asset is a portfolio piece.

Invoices, business cards, zip-file covers, email signatures — anything that leaves the studio is something we'd be proud to feature on /work.

Direct & senior.

You talk to the designer doing the work. No layered teams. No telephone-game feedback. Replies inside one working day, usually faster.

We work where we live.

Tenerife is home. We pick local printers, local photographers, local clients first — because proximity makes the craft tighter and the relationships better.

Like the way we think?

Let's talk →

If we sound like the right studio for the project, the next step is a 20-minute call. No deck. No rate card. Just a proper conversation about what you're trying to ship.

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