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View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Pedro Miguel Salgado CondeAbout Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde : Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde, also known as Peguel, is a Mexican designer, author, creative director, and endurance athlete whose work spans product design, furniture, publishing, restoration, and cultural projects. His practice moves between the pragmatic and the poetic, exploring the relationship between objects, materials, human behavior, ritual, and everyday experience. His work ranges from everyday products to limited-edition pieces and creative direction projects, often using narrative as a way to create meaning around objects and experiences. His work has received international design recognition and has been presented through universities, cultural institutions, exhibitions, talks, and publishing projects. Alongside his design practice, he develops independent research and writing on attention, material culture, leisure, memory, and contemporary life.
When I think about design and art, I see them as two different ways of trying to understand and shape human experience.
Art has the freedom to exist primarily as a question, an emotion, a provocation, or a personal expression. Design can do many of those things too, but it usually carries an additional responsibility: it has to enter the world and negotiate with use, materials, people, context, production, and time.
That difference interests me a lot.
I do not see design as simply problem-solving, because I think that definition is too limited. Some of the most meaningful objects do much more than solve a practical need. They create attachment, ritual, identity, memory, and even a certain way of behaving. At the same time, I do not think design should pretend to be art simply by becoming less useful or more difficult to understand.
For me, the most interesting territory is somewhere between function and meaning. I am drawn to objects and spaces that work well, but also carry an emotional or cultural dimension. Things that can be used every day and still make you feel something, notice something, or think differently about an ordinary action.
I also believe both art and design are ways of participating in culture. They reveal what a society values, what it fears, what it desires, what it considers beautiful, and what it chooses to preserve. In that sense, neither is neutral.
My perspective is that art can teach us to see differently, while design can take that way of seeing and embed it into everyday life.
That is probably what fascinates me most: the possibility of turning an idea into something people can encounter not only intellectually, but physically, repeatedly, and sometimes without even realizing that it is changing the way they experience the world.
ORGANIZATION:
Monotempo
EDUCATION:
Industrial Designer at ITESM, Puebla/ Mexico
AWARDS:
2018, 1st Place, ITESM, Puebla/ Mexico.
2019, Best project contribution and development, BOSCH, Mexico City/ Mexico
2019, Graphic design concept, IDA, Budapest/Hungary
2020, Runner up, DWM MXTC, Mexico City/ Mexico
2021, Runner up, Shezen DA 深圳
2021, Silver, A design award. Como/italy
BOOKS:
2026, "Vivir el silencio", 221 Pages, Monotempo ediciónes, Puebla/Mexico, ISBN9786072999169.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Spanish (Native)
English (Advanced)
French (Intermediate)
WEB SITE:
https://www.peguel.com/
PORTFOLIO URL:
https://www.monotempo.studio
REGISTRATION DATE:
2020-05-13 21:00:13
COUNTRY/REGION:
Mexico
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
Awards received by Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde
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Maybe Multifunctional App Silver A' Design Award Winner for Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Category in 2020 Pedro Miguel Salgado Conde for Peguel |
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