Eduardo Altamirano

École cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL)
IG @enlasuperficie

Born in 1992 in Guadalajara, Mexico, Eduardo Altamirano is an industrial designer working between academia and industry. He holds a BA in Industrial Design and completed studies in Furniture Design in Stockholm before earning an MA in Product Design with Excellent Mention from ECAL, Lausanne (2024). His diploma project was awarded the Pierre Keller Foundation Prix.

Now based in Mexico City, his practice for brands and institutions explores the tension between the local landscape and the possibilities of mass production. Grounded in a hands-on, rough-making approach, his work spans contract industry solutions and material experimentation, reflecting on contemporary culture and proposing alternative ways of living through objects.

Sonido Material
Sonido Material explores sound as a physical and spatial phenomenon rather than a contained technological output. By dismantling the loudspeaker into its most essential components, the project questions the conventional boundaries between object, material, and sound.

Through the act of reduction, the product is composed of a self-made audio driver made with a coil, a magnet, and a paper membrane, allowing sound to emerge almost imperceptibly from matter itself. This approach shifts the loudspeaker away from its archetypal form and reframes it as an open system - one that reveals its function through presence, vibration, and material behavior.

The project proposes speculative loudspeaker typologies that blur the line between product and installation, emphasizing sound as something that occupies space, activates material, and challenges the visual dominance of audio equipment.

Rather than pursuing optimization or performance, Sonido Material positions sound as a tangible experience, inviting a more sensitive and intuitive relationship between technology, humans and space.