MartinsArguello

16/06/2024

Festival MED 2024

🇬🇧 3rd edition where our corrugated cardboard chairs and stools are being restored (adding an outer layer and some glued pieces) to resist thousands os people that will pass and seat on them during 4 days of musical festival in Loulé. Proud to help it either product

04/07/2023

Produção dos puffs circulares feitos com embalagens de cartão da zona industrial de Loulé com aplicação de grafismos inspirado nos achados arqueológicos dos banhos islâmicos, feito com estampagem manual (e alguns retoques!), comissionados para o Festival Med através do Loulé Criativo Loulé Design Lab

04/07/2023

Saiu a nossa entrevista explicando o conceito da peça 'Melodia em Tubos' para o Festival Med, dentro do projeto In-finity do Loulé Criativo Loulé Design Lab

03/06/2023

MED FESTIVAL 2023 presentation and music video concert ✨

Yesterday the Loule Council introduced all agenda for the 19th edition of this Mediterranean festival!

This photo shows our upcycled cardboard chair and stool from 2022 festival and we’re so excited this year to extend our furniture range and create also an incredible art installation with cardboard tubes… stay tuned!

So grateful for for this exciting challenge to raise awareness that it’s possible to reuse, reinvent and redirect recyclable materials into new products!

The opening concert was fabulous and left a sweet taste of what’s is heading up for the end of month! (I didn’t film it because I was enjoying it) We’ll be there at

22/05/2023

This is the week to not miss in Faro!

Today, come and join us in the Algarve Design Meeting in an iconic old brewery factory at Faro, Algarve!

Thanks to Loulé Criativo & Algarve Design Meeting our Re-feito project will be displayed in the 2nd floor among with other criatives from Loulé Design Lab!

Unique oportunity to see us in action and to sit down in a surprinsingly confirtable cardboard circular chair!!!

More info here: https://algarvedesignmeeting.ualg.pt/expo_03.html

22/04/2023

Our interview for AlgarvePlus - April 23

We're excited to share our story of more than 20 years of design experience across Brazil, Italy and Uk markets to land in the south of Portugal to ignite the Circular Economy through our Re-feito ('Re-done') project to redirect materials that would be sent to landfill.

Check out the full story here or at our bio!
https://issuu.com/wannabeeartist/docs/april_digital_singles_sml?fr=sNjdmZjU2NjM0Mjc

Let us know what you think about cardboard furniture as the next sustainable trend!

08/02/2023

🇬🇧 we had so much fun in IKEA building up this cardboard furniture showroom!

🇵🇹 foram 3 dias incríveis dentro do demonstrando como é possível criar móveis a partir de embalagens de cartão!

Obrigada Sul Informação pela ótima reportagem! Gratidão ao Loulé Criativo e IKEA Portugal pela oportunidade e organização e acolhimento impecável: nos sentimos parte da equipe IKEA 🤩

Iniciativa conjunta decorreu entre os dias 2 e 5 de Fevereiro

05/02/2023

Com o projeto colaborativo do Loulé Design Lab junto com a Inframoura despertou nossa vontade de criar mobiliários a partir de resíduos que seriam deitados fora em aterro.

Mais info sobre nosso projeto Re-feito em breve!

Entretanto deixo aqui a nossa entrevista e motivação para aplicar os conceitos de economia circular com o design de peças únicas.