Filter Factory Bird House from Cigarette Filters by Isaac Monté

About This Piece

Contemporary Design

Filter Factory is a statement against the littering behavior of smokers. An average smoker throws 2.5 kilos of cigarette ends on the street every year. Birds eat these cigarette ends because they consider them to be food. As a result, they die. On the other hand, birds are smart and use the filters in their nests. Because the filters are made out of synthetic fiber, they keep the eggs warm. Besides, the nicotine keeps leeches out of the nest, so the little chicks don’t die. It is the designer's aim to make smokers aware of their littering behavior and reward them for their good behavior instead of punishing them for bad behavior. When throwing your cigarette end in the machine, it is being shredded and the counter runs. With every 300th cigarette, a door pops open and the lucky smoker can take a birdhouse home with him. The birdhouses are being made in a sort of big waffle iron. The shredded cigarette filters are being melted in the waffle iron and thus being shaped into a birdhouse. The birdhouses are an art object, intended for the interior.

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Creator	Isaac Monté
Design Period	From 2000
Production Period	2010 to Present
Country of Manufacture	Netherlands
Style	Contemporary
Detailed Condition	New — This is a new (unused) item of contemporary design.
Product Code	FSA-316555
Additional Information	Made by Hand Open Edition
Materials	Composite Material, Mixed Media
Color	Beige, brown
Width	20 cm 20 cm
Depth	20 cm 20 cm
Height	35 cm 35 cm

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About the Creator

Isaac Monté

Designer Isaac Monté was born November 14, 1988 in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated Cum Laude in 2009 with a Bachelor’s in interior architecture from the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway, and subsequently obtained a Master’s in interior architecture from LUCA, School of Arts in Gent in 2009 as well as a Master’s degree in product design from Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 2013. From 2012 until 2013, Monté held a product design internship at Studio Mischer’Traxler in Vienna, Austria.

Monté’s fascination for unusual materials—combined with an urge to master and manipulate these materials—led to the establishment his own multidisciplinary design studio in Rotterdam in August 2010. Notable designs include the Crystal Series (2016), which features a collection of vases, lights, and accessories manufactured in collaboration with Galerie PUUR, Form&Seek, and BioArt Laboratories. Using the metaphor of time as inspiration, Monté replicates stalagmites by organically growing the crystals for his series, allowing each object to be completely unique in shape, color, and texture.

In 2012, Monté founded Sweatshop Deluxe, a social design label and production company based in Rotterdam. He also lectures and leads workshops at various institutions, including the program Unexpect, which teaches children to use design as a solution for social issues. Since 2014, he has taught Sustainability, Product Design, and Lifestyle Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Monté’s work has been shown in galleries and exhibitions in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany. He is also the recipient of multiple awards including The Threshold Prize for his project Filter Factory (2013), the Henri Winkelman Award for young creative entrepreneurs (2014), and was a recipient of the Bio Art and Design Awards (2015), which afforded him the opportunity to design The Art of Deception (2015) in collaboration with Toby Kiers, a professor in evolutionary biology at the Free University of Amsterdam.