Tag: Portugal

Vanessa Barragão ’s rugs depict diverse underwater ecosystems using recycled yarns and creating intricate tapestries of ecosystems by hand. Studio Vanessa Barragão is a design studio focusing on the artisanal techniques and wasted yarns from the industry to produce textiles and products...

Lisbon-based firm Rebelo De Andrade designed this bright red house to stand out amid the vast, uniform landscape of southern Portugal. This is ‘House 3000’ located on a 500 hectare plot populated with scores of cork trees — a constant terrain that, as...

Memory Lapses are temporary installations linked to strong memories realized by the photographer François Ollivier . In a series that revisits places heavy with nostalgia, the Montreal-based artist, constructs sculptures that erase themselves through the flash of his camera. By overexposing reflective material...

Portuguese photographer Manuel Pita ( Sejkko ) is fascinated by colorful houses and spends time snapping the most particular ones that he comes across, usually on the background of a beautiful blue sky. Most of his photographs are taken in Portugal, but some...

Portuguese-Italian collective Moradavaga have built a shimmering sunwheel for the annual Festa de São João do Porto (Festival of St John of Porto) in Portugal. Measuring eight meters in diameter, the piece is the result of hundreds of gold plates,...

Essi Kimpimäki is a Finnish illustrator now based in Scotland and she is a passionate traveller. Her images show the extent of her adventures, featuring places such as Greece, Morocco, Turkey, Portugal, Russia and more. Her style is very distinctive and...

We do love an unusual initiative, and LATA 65 really is a brilliant one. The Lisbon non profit organisation’s aim is to teach the art of graffiti… but this club is just for seniors. In a series of workshops run by well-known...

DOCUMENTARYDESIGN‘s Mapuguaquén (that’s “The Sound of the Earth” if you don’t speak Mapudungun, the indigenous aboriginal language of Chile) are hand-thrown clay speakers were another product to catch our eye at Milan Design Week‘s Salone Satellite. A truly multicultural product, the speakers were...

Sofia Ayuso is a graphic designer from Portugal with a very simple and clean illustration style, which she’s used to create her Horror Related Characters series. The characters are all taken from popular horror movies and thriller films, and are drawn...

In the heart of the Pedras Salgadas Park in Portugal, Luís and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade of Rebelo de Andrade Studio have created these interesting looking Tree Snake Houses. The tree houses aren’t build among the branches of a high tree,...