Kanttari receives silver A’ Design Award

The Eclipse bar cabinet by the Latvian design brand Kanttari has just won a silver award in the furniture design category of the international design competition A’ Design Award 2025. The piece, created under the direction of designer and founder of Kanttari, Renāts Kotļevs, combines sculptural form and luxurious details with thoughtful functionality.

Stories - Editorial, May 15, 2025

Riga Marathon medal and shirt design by Ivars and Helēna Heinrihsons

On May 17 and 18, thousands of runners will fill the streets of Riga, as the annual Rimi Riga Marathon is about to celebrate its 35th anniversary. For several years now, the visual image of the marathon has been created in close collaboration with outstanding Latvian artists and designers, and this year is no exception. The 2025 medals and shirts have been designed by Ivars Heinrihsons and Helēna Heinrihsone, who have used horse and flower motifs that are signature to their work.

Stories - Signe Solovjeva, May 14, 2025

Nice Touch — Roberta Atraste

Roberta Atraste, the winner of the Riga Photography Biennial’s Next 2025 programme award Emerging Curator! and curator of the exhibition The Bureaucrat Who Secretly Reads Poetry shares an indispensable tool in her creative process.

Nice Touch - Editorial, May 9, 2025

Above the mundane. An interview with Dārta Apsīte

Creative director Dārta Apsīte believes that we need the poetic and the beautiful as much as the practical. Under her leadership, a new phase in Riga’s communication with its residents began but currently, Dārta is taking on a new challenge and has founded the design and communication studio Ausme.

Interviews - Paula Gāgane, April 30, 2025

Learning to draw with illustrator Viktorija Semjonova’s playful books

At the end of March, the British publishing house Hardie Grant London released the third book by Latvian illustrator Viktorija Semjonova. Her latest book, Drawing Nature: 100 Prompts, Projects and Playful Exercises, offers tasks and step-by-step guidance to make drawing accessible to everyone.

Stories - Editorial, April 28, 2025

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