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Laser Engraving Design

Innovating Design through Digital Fabrication & Open Design

The Maker Movement is not just a hobby, it is a movement with real impact on the world and increasingly targeted by small and large companies as a source of innovation.

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Our services?

Prototyping Design

Industrial Design and Service R&D

With our technical competence for product development and prototyping capacity, we are prepared to meet the needs in the development of new products, services, small-scale manufacturing, formation of Maker Mindset in companies or in the R&D of new technologies.

Innovation and Entrepeneurship

Prototyping

Giving access to digital fabrication tool's such as 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC and a wide array of techniques allowing companies and freelancers to rapidly iterate and prototype their ideas.

Precious Plastic Injection Moulding Design & Manufaturing

Small Scale Manufacturing

VIVA Lab is a space for you to think outside the box where you can design and make a product tailored to your needs and dreams. A personal production, allowing anyone that wants to launch a product to produce locally personalized small-scale products. There are a wide range of things which can be made in a Fab Lab from key chains to electric skateboards.

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Design Sprint

Design Sprint is an initiative that boosts creative tools in product or service design, strengthening skills in a creative and innovative way for non-designers, using Digital Fabrication and/or Precious Plastic. The Design Sprint can have a variable duration and integrates time for ideation, prototyping and study of implementation on the market.

Awards

Some Of Our Clients:

Projects

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living among what's left behind

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Creating the first book cover made with plastic waste bringing a light to Manila.

Developed with Degrau for the  Award Winning Photographer Mario Cruz

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Tolstoy café sculpture 

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VivaLab made a costume made sculpture for the Tolstoy restaurant in Vienna, Austria. Project in Collaboration with studio8 lab

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Coração verde award design

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Design & manufacture of the Coração Verde Award with upcycled wood and recycled plastic

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MAKERS VS COVID

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Open Design of PPE's for hospitals and local communities

PET MINI E-SKATE Waste from the Beache.j

P.E.T MINI E-SKATE

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Development of the world's first recycled electric skateboard

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MALUCOFONE

Manel Cruz

 

Prototyping & Design of a New Instrument for Manel Cruz by João Sá

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Upcycled stalls for matosinhos

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Stalls for the Matosinhos Markets from upcycled wooden walkways of the beaches made with the local community

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DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 19

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Showcasing design projects at the Dutch design week

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sustainable design sprint

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Sustainable Design Sprint with Aga Khan Foundation and SDM+Ação in Serra de Minas Market, Sintra, Portugal

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DOme cidade+

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Design & manufacturing of a Dome for the Cidade+ event

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Eco agenda

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Design & Manufacturing of a recycled agenda for the City Hall of Porto

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ecocentro prelada

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Design & Manufacturing of a 100% recycled sign for the new eco-center in Porto

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sensory table for appacdm

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Design & Manufacturing of a sensory table for the APPACDM Association

Contact for Business Opportunities

João Leão 

B2B & Industrial Design Managment

vivalabporto@gmail.com

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