Featured independant projects
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Trazo - promoting local manufacturing
Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño 2020 elected piece
Trazo pen is the tangible representation of how the collaboration between design and local industrial 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
Awardee Ein und Zwanzig 2021, World´s Finest Design Talents,German Design Council.
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.
Project in collaboration with Icoffee Solutions Guatemala
Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
Human reference Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
Design by Movalle
MOGO & CRETA
Elected pieces for Inédito exhibition from Design Week Mexico, CDMX 2022-2023
MOGO
Is a coffee thermos manufactures 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 desig incorporates an ergonomic finger grip, creating a more user friendly expirience.
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 throught alternaive and sustainable materials.
These projects exemplify the capacity 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.
Design by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
by Manuel Ovalle
Design by Manuel Ovalle
VÜ Lamp & MO Lamp
Elected pieces for Inédito exhibition from Design Week Mexico, CDMX 2020-2021
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.
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.
Projects developed at Cementos Pogreso (GT)
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Concrete 3D printing Research project (2022)
Cementos Progreso Guatemala, as a region innovation pioneer purchased and installed the first COBOD concrete 3D printer in Latam in early 2022. As industrial designer, Movalle has worked as designer at the Research & Development Center of CEMPRO since 2019 In this flagship project.
Movalle is responsible for designing, 3D modeling, and G-coding each element to print. Also, he is in charge of the operation of the Bod-2 printer.
Four modules installed with night light
Printing process
Four modules installed with Movalle as human reference
Four modules installed with night light
MOD - Modular 3D printed station (2022)
The spaces we design build behaviors in people.
MOD is a modular proposal for urban furniture manufactured through concrete 3D printing. These modules create alternatives to build public spaces in urban and peri-urban areas of Latin America. Providing communities with the ability to modulate their urban environment based on their needs with high-strength prefabricated designs. This design can generate a wide variety of spaces, building cities friendlier cities and more receptive to people.
MOD is the tangible result of one of the first concrete 3D printing research projects in the region.
Designed by Movalle
Design & render by Movalle.
Movalle as human reference.
Designed by Movalle
Influunt Chair (2022)
Influunt chair is a piece of outdors long-lasting furniture manufactured by a single perimeter of 3D-printed high-strength concrete. The morphology of this design allows the concrete to receive high loads without steel or fiber reinforcement.
Also, its low volume allows two people to transport it by hand without heavy machinery.
Design consultancy for Cinderfit (U.S)
Image extracted from CinderFit`s official website.
Image extracted from CinderFit`s official website.
Image extracted from CinderFit`s official website.
Image extracted from CinderFit`s official website.
CinderFit Workout
In 2021 Movalle was involved as a design consultant in the design process of CinderFit`s workout block, redesigning an existing concept and developing the manufacturing blueprints, also determining pantones and positions of the text in the five blocks.
CinderFit was launched to the market in the U.S in April 2022.
"Inspired by the classic cinder block - the basic building block that has been utilized globally since the late 1800s for the construction of houses, walls, and buildings - CinderFit's patent-pending design allows fitness enthusiasts to do 10x more exercises than a dumbbell or kettlebell, providing unrivaled total body strength and cardio training." - Extracted from CinderFit`s official website.
All rights of this project are property of Cinderfit.
This is an authorized publication.