With the project Rockets I explored the overlooked potential of cork: a humble, ubiquitous material too often reduced to packaging waste. I started with its most common form, the wine stopper, and reimagined it as the building block of a modular children’s game.

The project began with a question: What if cork could shape imagination as much as it seals a bottle? Rather than focusing on its traditional uses, I sought to give cork new life, emphasizing its tactile, resilient, and environmentally sensitive properties.

The work takes the form of a construction kit made of recycled cork stoppers, magnetized to connect in endlessly reconfigurable ways. Designed for children, it invites open-ended play while embedding ecological awareness through touch and interaction. Sustainability here is not preached—it is experienced through form, texture, and subtle constraint.

I also considered the visual identity, painting, and packaging with clarity and care, so that every detail reinforces the playful and thoughtful approach. Rockets is a small act of design that invites big gestures of imagination: a proposition to revalue what is near, what is natural, and what, like cork, deserves more time in our hands.