Filipe Alarcão is one of today's most recognizable names in Portuguese product design. His designs range from the renowned china, porcelain and casual dishes manufactured by Vista Alegre

Vista Alegre

Vista Alegre may refer to:*Vista Alegre , a ceramics company in Portugal*Vista Alegre crater, a crater in Brazil*Vista Alegre City, a city in Brazil*Vista Alegre , a neighbourhood of the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte...

 to the contemporary furniture design of Temahome

Temahome

TemaHome is Portugal's largest furniture exporter based inLisbon.The company's main markets are Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Denmark and the USA, however as of January 2008, the company exports to 40 countries with over 1200 points of sale in 4 continents.- Company history :Founded as...

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He obtained a degree in equipment design from the Lisbon school of fine arts http://www.fba.ul.pt and a master's degree in industrial design from the Domus Academy, Postgraduate School of Design

Domus Academy, Postgraduate School of Design

Domus Academy is an international postgraduate school of design based in Milan, Italy. Domus Academy offers master courses and advanced short courses in the field of design, fashion, architecture, interior design and management. It was founded in 1982 as the first institutionalized school in Milan...

 in Milan, Italy.
From 1995 to 1997, Filipe worked with Michele de Lucchihttp://www.produzioneprivata.it, in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, as a consultant for Olivetti

Olivetti

Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...

http://www.olivetti.it 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, Temahome

Temahome

TemaHome is Portugal's largest furniture exporter based inLisbon.The company's main markets are Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Denmark and the USA, however as of January 2008, the company exports to 40 countries with over 1200 points of sale in 4 continents.- Company history :Founded as...

http://www.temahome.com, Schréderhttp://www.schreder.com, Sendahttp://www.senda.pt, Cerâmicas São Bernardohttp://www.s-bernardo.pt, Larus http://www.larus.pt 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