“I started this office in 2016 without a map. No niche, no method to defend, just the conviction that design could be bold and useful at the same time, at any scale. Ten years on, working with global companies, small businesses and artists across four cities, I still believe that.”
Fernanda Algazal Founder
The practice
Object
Products, lighting, wearables
Interface
Through Frame
Space
Interiors, scenography, pavilions
City
Interventions, public space
Organisation
Brands, systems, ways of working
Ten years, in four movements
The office opens in São Paulo taking on spaces, objects and the city at once: scenography, interiors, installations and interventions for brands, institutions and artists.
ALGAZAL//CO
Products, platforms and brands in motion ask for a dedicated team. From 2023, every digital project we take on is made with Frame, the digital studio.
Frame
Technology moves from the edge of the process to its centre. The studio builds its own tools for drawing, visualising and running projects, and the work changes with them.
ALGAZAL//CO
Tools, methods and training leave the studio and travel: to other offices and to companies that need them. The thinking goes out every week as a newsletter.
Orbital · Design Pills
How the practice is organised
Zürich · São Paulo · New York · London
The design practice. Objects, spaces, cities and organisations, commissioned and self-initiated. Every project starts here, at whatever scale it needs.
Portfolio ↗Tools, method, school
Our tools and methodology, packaged to travel. Orbital moves between studios — ours and others — and into companies that need them, as software, method and training.
English · Portuguese
The newsletter. Notes on design, art and culture, written from inside the practice.
The digital studio
An independent studio for products, platforms and brands in motion. Every digital project we take on is made with Frame, and Fernanda sits on its board.
frame.mov ↗Founder
Fernanda Algazal is a Brazilian designer based in Zürich. She founded ALGAZAL//CO in São Paulo in 2016 and has led it since, across every scale the practice works in.
Trained as an architect and designer, with a background in art history and visual culture, she works where systems, business and product meet. In parallel with the practice she leads Apps and Experience at IWG — work she chose, and that keeps the studio close to how large organisations actually run.
ALGAZAL//CO
Founder and Creative Director
The design practice. Founded in São Paulo, 2016.
Frame
Board member
The digital studio. São Paulo and London.
IWG
Director of Apps and Experience
The world's largest flexible workspace provider, with over 4,000 locations. Product strategy and launch across the group's brands, P&L, and post-acquisition integration.
The people
Fernanda Algazal
Founder, Creative Director · Zürich
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Role · City
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Role · City
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Role · City
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Role · City
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Collaborators across projects, Frame and Orbital.
Approach
01
We start with the question behind the brief.
02
We decide what the project actually is.
03
We design and build it, together with the client.
04
We stay until it works in the world.
Awards and mentions
Zürich
Base
São Paulo
Founded here, 2016
New York
London