Rihards is an industrial designer and has been running his design studio since 2007. The specific character of the studio is formed by combining design, craft, art, science and social responsibility, simultaneously ensuring a high quality of the product. Besides his work in the studio Rihards is a tutor and mentor at various international design, art and entrepreneurship workshops. Design Studio Rihards Funts has been awarded in several local as well as international product and graphic design competitions. His work has been published by Gestalten, Laurence King Publishing, Rockport Publishing.
Rihards is an industrial designer and has been running his design studio since 2007. The specific character of the studio was formed by combining design, craft, art, science and social responsibility, simultaneously ensuring a high quality of the product. Besides his work in the studio Rihards is a tutor and mentor at international design, art and entrepreneurship workshops. Design Studio Rihards Funts has been awarded in several local and international product and graphic design competitions, his work has been published by Gestalten, Laurence King Publishing, Rockport Publishing.
After studying journalism and public relations at university, she worked for a public TV channel, as well as an international advertising agency. Klinta has experience working in a wide range of businesses as a project manager, as well as involving social influence, managing projects for the biggest non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian organisation in Latvia - Latvian Red Cross and SOS Children's Villages Latvia. Producing the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 and Latvian exhibitions at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019, are just two of Klinta’s projects in the fields of cultural management and creative industries.
Andris is an art critic and curator, born in Riga and based in Milan. He is a Senior lecturer and the Course Leader of BA in Painting and Visual Arts at NABA in Milan. His most recent curatorial projects are “Infancy and History” (OCAT, Beijing 2019); “Signals from Another World. Asja Lācis and Children’s Theatre” (AVTO, Istanbul 2019), “Asja Lācis. Engineer of the Avant-Garde” (Latvian National Library, 2019), “2nd Yinchuan Biennale. Starting from the desert Ecologies on the Edge” with Marco Scotini (Yinchuan, China, 2018); “Mei Lan Fang and The Soviet Theatre” (Research project for “The Szechwan Tale. Theatre and History” at the First Anren Biennale in Anren, China and Milan in 2018); “Signals from another world. Asja Lācis Archives” (Documenta 14, Kassel 2017); and “Disobedience Archive (The Park)” with Marco Scotini (SALT, Istanbul, 2014). Brinkmanis has collaborated with magazines and publications such as Corriere della Sera, Alfabeta 2, Flash Art International, Monument to Transformation, SOUTH as a State of Mind and Studija. His research is centred on alternative education and the relationship between education and visual culture.
Toms is an industrial designer. After studying at Design Academy Eindhoven he continued to work with Rihards Funts at studio RIJADA on projects of various scale, ranging from furniture and electronic devices to exhibition design and environmental objects. Toms currently works for Amsterdam-based eyewear company Ace & Tate as Chief Technical Designer, where he is responsible for developing new eyewear collections and accessories.
After graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2016, and having interned with craftsmen in both Kyoto and New York, Julia established herself as a freelance jewelry designer and goldsmith in her hometown of Amsterdam. Led by her passion for handmade craft and sustainable design solutions she always looks for a narrative in her creations - making simple yet surprising designs that tell a story.
Ģirts has studied geology at the University of Latvia and visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. Has been working on various projects in the field of arts and culture and has been responsible for the visual communication of Mad Design Summer School.