Zuiver Scholarship winner 2023

Pepe Valenti (2000), born and raised in Barcelona, graduated in 2022 from the Design Academy Eindhoven, with a Bachelor in Design. He is active in the fields of product and installation design with a strong focus on materiality. Pepe has an intuitive and hands-on approach, whilst exploring his fascination for materials. The designs result from a search to understand materials and production processes, by physically experimenting with them: thinking through making. His inspiration comes from raw and untouched matters surrounding us, while his work remains very polished and refined, creating an interesting contrast between the source and the outcome.