Marco Sousa Santos, a Lisbon based designer, has been working across several fields of design since 1995. As the founder and director of Proto Design and Experimenta Design, he has promoted several projects and design collections with national and foreign authors, contributing to the new “Vision” on Design culture in Portugal.

He is professor of Industrial Design at the faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He also works with many Portuguese producers to established dynamic partnerships for his new-born BRANCA label.