Filipe Alarcão (born 1963 in

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) is a Portuguese product designer. His designs range from the renowned china, porcelain and casual dishes manufactured by

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to the contemporary furniture design of

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. He obtained a degree in equipment design from the Lisbon school of fine arts and a master's degree in industrial design from the

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in Milan, Italy. From 1995 to 1997, Filipe worked with

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, in

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, as a consultant for

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Personal Computers, developing projects for personal computers. Currently he lives and works in Lisbon, with his own atelier where he develops industrial design projects in furniture, urban equipment and products, lighting, ceramics and glass in collaboration with several Portuguese and foreign companies among them Vista Alegre Atlantis, Asplund,

, Schréder, Senda, Cerâmicas São Bernardo, Larus and Moda Lisboa.http://www.modalisboa.pt In interior design, he has created spaces such as the Moda Lisboa design shop, Galeria Atlantis, Design aus Portugal exhibit in Frankfurt and the Delidelux shop. His works are shown at the Design museum at the Belem cultural center in Lisbon.

Awards

*1994 National Design Award of the Portuguese Center for Design *2002 Polis competition for global signage systems for urban places in Portugal *2002 First place - Architecture competition Museum of Contemporary Art of Elvas

References

Product designers 1963 births Living people Portuguese industrial designers 20th-century Portuguese male artists 21st-century Portuguese male artists {{Portugal-artist-stub