Desajeitado Glass for Quinta Várzea da Pedra
When Tomás Emídio, a fellow designer, asked us to design a glass for a special wine named Desajeitado [clumsy] from Quinta Várzea da Pedra, we immediately thought we would first have to taste this specialty and learn more about its history. Its clumsy way of being born combined with the stone that gives the farm its name, gave rise to an experimentally produced glass that gives a special shape to the liquid. Produced in hand blown glass, using a mold of a stone from the farm, as well as a steel tube, each glass is unique and is only sold together with the bottle.
When Tomás Emídio, a fellow designer, asked us to design a glass for a special wine named Desajeitado [clumsy] from Quinta Várzea da Pedra, we immediately thought we would first have to taste this specialty and learn more about its history. Its clumsy way of being born combined with the stone that gives the farm its name, gave rise to an experimentally produced glass that gives a special shape to the liquid. Produced in hand blown glass, using a mold of a stone from the farm, as well as a steel tube, each glass is unique and is only sold together with the bottle.
Our work for Quinta Várzea da Pedra is an experimental and low cost approach to glass production. We used our experience in small series production to make several experiments focusing on the use of stone to create texture in glass. For this, we turned to our community and collaborated with other companies in the region.
Project from VICARA Studio made with the collaboration of glass blower Cláudio Duarte.
2022
Chouriceira is a BBQ for chouriços which takes the traditional pottery motives from Caldas da Rainha to a new use/meaning.
Social Urban Object. “Jungalhar” is a one week residency project for a co-creation project with Miguel Rondon in the offspring of the river Lis, in Fontes, Leiria. Inspired by the local’s remniscience of the place, we created a place for dialogue and contemplation, of the surrounding natural enviroment and of the music, composed in the residency by Surma and João Hasselberg.
This research projects aimed to create a set of sand beach cleaning tools adequate to the commonly found ocean debris, specially microplastics. Departing from the concepts of activism, ideological objects were designed, blending the symbolism of the ambientalism cause with the significances of the materials and manufacturing process. One set of bucket wooden sieve with a tinsmith shovel and a catch all sand sieve were designed and produced for different users, children and adults.
There was a focus on highlighting the relation between the systems of production and consumption, which in a generalized way is the cause for the pollution found on the beaches. Therefore, the products use artisanal and semi industrial production techniques which were manufactured with the support of specialized craftsmen and myself.
MA in Product Design at ESAD.CR
Tutor: Phd Renato Bispo
Can be consulted here (PT only)
2020
MA in Product Design at ESAD.CR
Tutor: Phd Renato Bispo
Can be consulted here (PT only)
2020
Cork set for Maat - Museum for Art, Architecture and Technology. Made under a simple marketing brief, to design something to be sold at the museum shop that would embody the iconic building in a simple object.
Produced in Cork Agglomerate
2019
