André Marinho is a product designer based in Porto, Portugal. His creativepath started back in high school when he attended Soares dos Reis Arts Highschool of Porto and experienced his first steps in design and traditional crafting. He then graduated in Design at FAUL (Lisbon) and did an interchange program in UTEM (Santiago, Chile).

During his bachelor degree, André created his own project named Lobo Marinho which began with pocket squares handmade out of textile factories dead-stock.
This led him into afirst limited pocket square collaboration with the worldwide acclaimed British magazine Monocle, which was sold exclusively in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and NYC. 

Followed by a second and third collaboration, he then designed from scratch and managed production of Monocle’s 10th Anniversary Magazine Rack released worldwide in 2017 and in 2019 the Monocle Porto Side Table was launched. Working on a freelance basis, André has been recently trying to mix craftsmanship processes with digital fabrication such as 3D printing. Furthermore, he has been developing his skills in generative computational design and aiming to learn novel multidisciplinary ways of building across scales with the aid of robotics and the application of newly emerging fields towards sustainable solutions in an urgent response to the most needed paradigm shift from a wasteful and environmentally harmful production and construction framework into a renewable, self-sufficient and resource-efficient one.