Featured independant projects
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Trazo - promoting local manufacturing
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2020 Iberoamerican Design Biennale elected piece
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Trazo pen is the tangible representation of how the collaboration between design and small workshops, can transform the local industry of emerging economies, evidencing the quality with which the local industries can produce design objects, providing economic utility to small companies, and diversifying their services.​
Aluminum CNC machined retractable pen with a micro concrete stand.
Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
I-Mountain
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Awardee (short listed) Ein und Zwanzig 2021, World´s Finest Design Talents,German Design Council.
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2022 Iberoamerican Design Biennale Elected Piece
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I-Mountain is a dripper for pour over coffee extraction methods.
Inspired by Guatemalan mountainous and volcanic coffee plantations, it is casted with a high-performance polished micro-concrete (terrazzo) and aims to enhance the coffee extraction experience of coffee shops customers.
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Project in collaboration with Icoffee Solutions Guatemala
Concéntrico
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Elected pieces for Inédito exhibition from Design Week Mexico, CDMX 2023-2024
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It is a set of luminaires inspired by the stepped structures of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. It aims to be an ambiance piece for work and relaxation spaces with soft warm lighting and an exquisite visual contrast between polished terrazzo and Rosewood that evokes native materials.
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Design by Movalle
Human reference Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
MOGO & CRETA
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Elected pieces for Inédito exhibition from Design Week Mexico, CDMX 2022-2023
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MOGO​
Is a coffee thermos manufactured from a high-performance, food-safe urethane polymer. Its minimalist design with a low center of gravity prevents spills and burns with its "anti-flip" effect, also the design incorporates an ergonomic finger grip, creating a more user-friendly experience.
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CRETA
Is a set of coffee tableware made from the development of a high-strength waterproof concrete reinforced with microfibers, contrasting it with local artisans' handmade Teak wood pieces. Creta proposes a disruption through alternative and sustainable materials.
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These projects exemplify the potential of design to iterate between the materials and processes of modern manufacturing industries and the local artisan skills impacting in both ways and generating product-based identity through coffee as a representative crop of Latin America.
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Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
VÜ Lamp & MO Lamp
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Elected pieces for Inédito exhibition from Design Week Mexico, CDMX 2020-2021
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​VÜ Lamp
As a tribute to active volcanoes in Latin America, Vü is a decorative luminaire with a slim frame of high-performance white micro concrete, hand polished and reinforced with microfibers, incorporating exposed volcanic aggregates in the finish, contrasted with reclaimed Conacaste wood and a warm LED lighting, evoking the luminescence of a crater.
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Mo Lamp
It is a pendant luminaire cast in low-density gray micro concrete based on: Crushed waste plastic, cement, sand, air injector & superplasticizer admixtures. Exposing through polishing the colors of the plastic aggregate and contrasted with support of reclaimed conacaste wood lathed by hand. Mo aims to demonstrate how through materials science and the experimentation of their properties is possible to introduce atypical raw materials for design applications.
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