Graduation project. Design academy Eindhoven
Discarded industrial materials — metal fragments, plastic mouldings, structural parts and packaging elements — form the basis of this collection. It reconsiders the overlooked beauty within mass production. Sourced from construction sites, warehouses and urban streets, these objects retain traces of function and aesthetic logic despite being labelled as waste. Fascinated by these fragments, Noé Garcia preserves their raw qualities with minimal intervention, using direct assemblage, subtle rearrangement and simple mechanical actions to highlight lines, textures and ornamental details shaped by systems of mass production. ‘Industrial Fragment’ positions the act of collecting as a deliberate design method, one that embraces the value of what already exists rather than contributing to material excess. In a time of ecological urgency, the project challenges conventional ideas of beauty, proposing that contemporary aesthetics can be found not in the new, but in the forgotten. It is a call to observe more closely and to design through recognition, not reinvention.
