Our blog about design, making and handmade stories

In this article we are telling a design story, a process of research, creativity and development that involved several years and resulted in a very special object, one of which I am very proud [...]

An old-new project we are launching as a Make100 Kickstarter campaign. Our first work with plaster molds and silicone Splat! is a rubber object created to protect the delicate surfaces in your [...]

For ten days, from June 1st to 10th, it was a celebration of creativity, talent and design in the city of A Coruña. A gallery of decorated balconies in one of the most emblematic streets in the [...]

The past may 26th we organized and hosted in our studio, the second Sundays at Oitenta. If you want to know how this initiative was born and the review of our first event, read this post. During [...]

Some months ago, in november 2018 we finally settled in our new design studio & workshop, located in a very special place in A Coruña’s old town. You can know more about it in the Design [...]

Readme has a long story that began some years ago, I don’t remember exactly but probably around 2010-2011. It was born because of a design challenge proposed by an industrial company that [...]

As I say sometimes, I became a maker by necessity, and this may be the example that best reflects it. Let’s go back to 2016. I love curved wood, I think that its flexibility is one of the [...]

I told the story of my first handcrafted object, the concrete smartphone and tablet stand, and how it helped me to begin selling my objects online, you can read the full story here. This is the [...]

ISOSCELES comes from an old product design I developed a few years ago, that it’s still in my studio’s cataloge, as you can see in the following pictures. It was already a simple [...]

ISOSCELES is my newest project. My third campaign on Kickstarter and the second Make 100, which is a special program for small limited edition projects promoted by Kickstarter only on during [...]

In January 2016 I was working as a freelance graphic and web designer, after a failed first attempt to launch my own products (Oitenta 1.0). I had been working this way for two years in which I [...]

This is the second of a series of Making of posts. You can read the first part here. The molds are made, in this case I dedided to use a four part mold and I did three molds to speed up [...]

Readme is a totally handmade object, a portable hanging book rack made to help you to have your favorite readings always at your fingertips. This object design is based on functionality and [...]

 Readme is a minimalistic and functional object designed to help you creating a reading corner wherever you are. A portable book rack, inspired by cloth hangers, that you can attach anywhere [...]

Our Eira collection is a growing line of high end design furniture we have developed in collaboration with Jorge Carril, a friend and a craftsman. Jorge is an expert wood bender and we have [...]

Put your creative mind to work, together we can make that unique object that fit your own style. At Oitenta, we design and handcraft objects for the everyday life, the home and leisure time of [...]

When the occasion arises to make a gift, or to show someone how much you care, you have before you an opportunity and two options: do you want to get something that will have to do? Or take the [...]

So, you don´t know where can you find Oitenta´s products? … Let us tell you, so you don´t have any excuse to buy your original gifts these holidays ;) If you are reading this, you are [...]

Participate in our social networks photography competition #OBJECTSARENOTJUSTTHINGS and win a two concrete planters set pack. Oitenta´s  motto is “Objects are not just things” because [...]

We have to admit that when we thought about Etsy as an e-commerce solution for our products, we had the wrong idea of it being dedicated to arts and crafts, jewelry and fashion, that´s why we had [...]

We´ve just finished a new project redesigning both logotype and corporate website for the law firm from A Coruña (Spain), Pintos & Salgado. They are specialized in new technologies and [...]

Corporate website design and development project for MERA, a housing construction company from Oleiros (A Coruña, ES). This is a corporate website that has to work as project portfolio, services [...]

This project was realized for an international design competition organized by Designboom, whose theme was, precisely, design for breakfast. In this case we focus the project to breakfast cooking [...]

This is a project made a few years ago for an international design competition organized by Designboom in collaboration with an italian furniture manufacturer. As we always do in this kind of [...]

Poster design that we did a few years ago and used as a corporate gift and free download in our website. It represents a Galician traditional saying “Nunca choveu que non escampara” [...]

Branca is a word in Catalan that means branch. We gave this wall bookshelf design project that name because it was an idea from our student times in Elisava design school in Barcelona, and we [...]

This project consists on designing a salt and pepper shaker/b>, design that could be applied to a widest range of spice racks, inspired in the shape of vintage foosball players. We like the [...]

This project is an evolution of a previous design, the Corner magazine rack. Its design was conceived as a minimalistic piece of stainless steel, shaped like an “L” that, when bent, [...]

Wall alpinist hooks that climb your home´s walls carrying your belongings in their backs. This product is one of our first designs that we´ve been evolving through time until this third edition. [...]

Those who have studied product design, at some point would wanted to design a cool chair,because these are the frequently studied as examples of styles in the Design History, and are present in [...]

Poster design, digital illustration, made from “Your dreams fly high” claim. The scene represent a balloon flying through the blue sky. It´s designed to reinforce the clain in a [...]

Percherona is one of our most iconic design. It´s a wall rack designed in the shape of a cartoonish cow face originally made (in the first version of the design) in aluminum composite,. Making [...]

Taboo was one of our first product design projects (although this is a re-design of the original product) which main value is to be a useful, simple and durable product. This is a piece of [...]

Appvisor is technological startup created in A Coruña (Spain) by a multidisciplinary entrepreneur team in which we actively participate as partners, image and graphic design managers. It consists [...]

This is a project we are currently working, that consist on, among other things, the creation of a new Galician brand with international and innovative vocation. It´s, for us, a great example of [...]

For a long time we´ve had an idea lurking in our heads that we didn´t find a convincing solution for

The same way band aids protect our skin and the small wounds we make, avoiding dirt and preventing them from re-opening, we thought that furniture should have the right to have their its own protectors