GUSTAVO MAGGIO
Gustavo Maggio is a senior Industrial Designer with more than 15 years of experience working across different design fields, including industrial products, residential and commercial interiors, museum exhibitions, curation, and service design strategies.
His current practice, Forest&Whale, envisions design as an agent of change to create an impact in social and environmental care. His approach to projects relies on a thorough understanding of user needs, which results from a refined ethnographic research process and a deep understanding of various cultures and behavioral patterns.
Passionate about exploring cutting-edge technology tools and their diverse applications across various industries and developmental phases.
gustavo@forestandwhale.com
WENDY CHUA
A seasonal nomad between Singapore and Buenos Aires, Wendy Chua is an industrial designer and educator. Her work delves into the discoveries that nature affords. A naive reinterpretation of wood-joinery or the harvest of hues from tropical flora in tufted wool. This curiosity for sensorial material exploration is rooted in the childhood memory of observing her mother, a seamstress, at work. Drawn to the workshop, she works with woodworkers and glassblowers, penning their stories in the design process. In 2017, she co-edited the book The Machinist after a two-year research, bringing a focus to the relevance and wisdom of the industrial artisan in the demise of craft.
wendy@forestandwhale.com