'As a designer, I think life can not be too comfortable, a little hunger will make you more sober, better feel the pulse of life.
Spanish men are famous for their rough and thick lines, and are different from the designer Alvaro who was born and set up in the studio.
Alvaro dressed in a fit cotton shirt, even if the two buttons on the unlock, rolled up sleeves, rigorous black-rimmed glasses and always shallow expression, and full of philosophical design concept, so that he looks more like a restrained indifferent Of the Germans.
After studying at the University of Madrid (1996-2002), he continued to study in Milan and graduated with honors from the UK's largest art college Central St. Martin (2001-2004).
In 2011, Alvaro traveled to South America, where he participated in a project of psychologists and activists, focusing on the Colombian Amazon plastic Garbage pollution problem.
Today, a large number of plastic PET bottles into the earth's tropical waters, waste materials floating to the Pacific, with the passage of time accumulated into a huge island, has a larger area than Spain, this place today known as 'Seventh continent'.
Alvaro learned about the first-hand information and found a solution to the problem.Personal life of PET bottles was the key to the problem, so they decided to re-product the waste to solve the problem of garbage piles.
With the help of asociacion artisanias de (an organization dedicated to protecting the traditional craft of Colombia), alvaro made the first attempt with two craftsmen with different backgrounds to give PET bottles a new form and a second life, Which led to PETlamp.org.
Alvaro's solution is to use the PET bottle surface as a warp, please local craftsmen with different weaving methods, and the use of local traditional materials for weaving, to show a different visual effects.
This not only solves the economic problems for the locals, but also allows their traditions and culture to develop and share their craft with the knowledge world.
Alvaro is the case, the plastic waste made of crafts at the same time, but also allow people to pay more attention to environmental pollution problems.