francisco martinho

DESIGNER

Francisco Martinho

SANGUE NOVO

Francisco Martinho, originally from Fátima, began his artistic journey with a vocational course in Design, Ceramics and Sculpture at Colégio de São Miguel. He later enrolled in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, which he interrupted to study Fashion Design at Modatex, in Porto. Currently an intern at Marques’Almeida, his work explores the balance between function and narrative through construction, attention to detail, and experimentation with materials and forms, seeking to create proposals that are simultaneously challenging and familiar.

TIME: ORGANIC | MECHANIC explores the paradox of contemporary life.

Questioning: the mechanical, rigid, accelerated, and exploitative rhythm that capitalism makes us believe is the true form of evolution.

Suggesting: the need for a more organic, fluid, and measured rhythm that comes from within and represents what is essentially human, disrupting this mechanised logic.

Fluid corrupts rigid
Properties corrupt structure