For more than 20 years Daniel Bosch, the design and creative director at Helsinki agency Fjord, is focusing on brand and service design, as well as user experience and strategic design.

The upcycled garments by designer Aiva Zīle, the founder of the fashion brand «Zīle», are now available at the brand’s recently opened concept store in Riga.

In the new Spring–Summer 2019 collection the designer behind the fashion brand «Talented» Indra Komarova merges the functional and the decorative, as well as experiments with asymmetry.

From May 16 to 18 the fifth conference «UX Riga», devoted to digital product design, will take place in Riga.

This year, the mobile app «Derec» by «Cube Systems» got the second place in the annual National Design Award of Latvia (NDAL 2019).

The most successful campaign for popularizing Latvian literature has been the recently awarded «#Iamintrovert» whose creative director is Una Rozenbauma.

From April 28 to May 4, the third annual «Wood Days» will take place in Cēsis. «Wood Days» is a series of educational events covering the fields of wood architecture, craftsmanship, industry and design.

Six years ago, Anete Melece created a short animated film «The Kiosk». Now the comic yet poignant story with Anete’s illustrations and text has been published in a book by «Liels un mazs».

A new association, the Latvian Sound Designers Club, has been established on the initiative of several independent professionals in the audio industry.

Creative director Una Rozenbauma explains why honesty is better than pretence, and why humour is better than being too serious.

The children’s book publisher «Liels un mazs» has recently published a picture book titled «Here I come!» — compiled and illustrated by the young artist Līva Ozola.

The director of the publishing house Alīse Nīgale says — «Liels un mazs» works by following intuition and heart rather than calculating success in numbers.