ŽŪRIJA 2023
Final jury
Audronė Drungilaitė
Ingūnas' professional focus is on the interaction of environment and graphics, creating experiences that unite places and people. Projects by H2E, for example, the permanent exhibitions of the Riga Motor Museum and the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, as well as the visual identities of Liepāja and Alūksne, manifest the use of design as a tool of communication. The work of H2E has earned the SEGD Award, Red Dot Design Award, German Design Award, IF Design Award, TEA Thea Award, and the Excellence Award of the Ministry of Culture of Latvia.
Liene
Drāzniece
Co-founder and head of design of the organic skin care company Mádara Cosmetics. Her work focuses on brand communication, design management and marketing. Liene has created the visual identity of several popular Latvian brands — Valmiermuižas alus, Ērenpreiss, and Mádara Cosmetics. She has taught packaging design and the basics of creating brand identity at Riga Design and Art School.
Ingūna
Elere
Co-founder and head of design at design studio H2E, professor at the Art Academy of Latvia, co-founder of SEGD Riga Chapter.
Ingūnas' professional focus is on the interaction of environment and graphics, creating experiences that unite places and people. Projects by H2E, for example, the permanent exhibitions of the Riga Motor Museum and the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, as well as the visual identities of Liepāja and Alūksne, manifest the use of design as a tool of communication. The work of H2E has earned the SEGD Award, Red Dot Design Award, German Design Award, IF Design Award, TEA Thea Award, and the Excellence Award of the Ministry of Culture of Latvia.
Emil Roman Frøge
Arhitect and designer and creative director and partner at the Archival Studies office. Emil's company Archival Studies practices architecture and prototyping, carrying out research, developing products, spatial solutions, and interiors of high artistic quality. The practice delves into the context and essence of each project and aims to uplift the most significant qualities of places to make them feel truly alive. Believing that liveliness is rooted in patterns of history and culture, the studio created open-ended design solutions that encourage intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic growth.
Brigita
Bula
Founder of Brigita Bula Architects and advisory board member of the Latvian Association of Architects. Brigita's architects' office creates sustainable architecture for green and forward-thinking clients: private residences, office interiors, public buildings, cafés and exhibitions. The Salt House designed by her in Pāvilosta received the Grand Prix of the Latvian Architecture Award in 2019 and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2022.
Mike James Bond
Arhitect and designer and creative director and partner at the Archival Studies office. Emil's company Archival Studies practices architecture and prototyping, carrying out research, developing products, spatial solutions, and interiors of high artistic quality. The practice delves into the context and essence of each project and aims to uplift the most significant qualities of places to make them feel truly alive. Believing that liveliness is rooted in patterns of history and culture, the studio created open-ended design solutions that encourage intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic growth.
Kristaps Šteimanis
UX designer,art director and digital design lead with a broad understanding of the design discipline beyond the boundaries of the digital realm. Kristaps has 15 years of experience in both creative and marketing projects and corporate UX and UI design. The clients of Cube include such Baltic brands as Rimi, SEB, Elektrum, Virši, LMT, Ergo and CircleK.
Selection jury
Ieva
Kalēja
A product designer who aspires to create iconic design items - lamps, vases and home décor. The brands "mammalampa" and "Detales" created by Ieva have gained wide international recognition. She has taught product design at the Latvian Academy of Arts, developed educational material on product design for secondary vocational education students, and is one of the founders of the Design Export Alliance.
Liene
Drāzniece
Co-founder and head of design of the organic skin care company Mádara Cosmetics. Her work focuses on brand communication, design management and marketing. Liene has created the visual identity of several popular Latvian brands — Valmiermuižas alus, Ērenpreiss, and Mádara Cosmetics. She has taught packaging design and the basics of creating brand identity at Riga Design and Art School.
Evelīna
Ozola
Architect, urbanist and publicist, founder of the creative industries platform FOLD. She has worked in architectural offices in Riga and Rotterdam, created the Latvian pavilion "Together and Apart" at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, and was a lecturer in architectural schools in Latvia and Sweden. Currently, Evelina is the chief designer of the city of Riga and also performs the duties of the chief architect of the city.
Līga
Lētiņa
One of the initiators of UX and service design industry in Latvia, mentor, lecturer and facilitator of creative workshops, design sprints. She heads the Design and Research Department at Printify and has more than a dozen years of experience in solving complex challenges in finance, telecommunications, healthcare and insurance companies, as well as in public administration. Co-founder of the conference "UX Riga", the movements "UX/UI Riga Meetup" and "Riga Tech Girls".
Mārcis
Miķelsons-Germs
Head of UX design department and partner in digital design, consulting and development company "Cube". Mārcis plans and manages the development of digital products and experiences for large and small companies on a daily basis. Among Cube's customers Baltic brands such as Rimi, SEB, Elektrum, Virši, LMT, Ergo and CircleK.
Una
Rozenbauma
Creative director, director and publicist. Founder and CEO of the communication design agency "Rosenbaum and the Sisters". In 2020, #iamintrovert Una won the National Design Award of Latvia. Unai has more than ten years of experience working in latvia's leading advertising and communication agencies.
Brigita
Bula
Founder of Brigita Bula Architects and advisory board member of the Latvian Association of Architects. Brigita's architects' office creates sustainable architecture for green and forward-thinking clients: private residences, office interiors, public buildings, cafés and exhibitions. The Salt House designed by her in Pāvilosta received the Grand Prix of the Latvian Architecture Award in 2019 and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2022.
Mareks
Birznieks
Product designer and interior architect. He describes himself as a set of knowledge and experience, failures and successes that live with design and, at times, with the wind. Mareks activly works in the field of interior design and has been a laureate of the Latvian Architecture Award. Mareks heads the design department of the Riga Art and Media Technical School.
Sandijs
Ruļuks
Sandy combines graphic design with photography and digital solutions. Created website development tools "Berta" and "Froont". Sandijs is a lecturer at the Arts Academy of Latvia and the photography education platform ISSP and works in the artists' collective "Weekly Impossible". Sandy's first photography solo exhibition, “light,” took place in 2018.Berta” un “Froont”. Sandijs ir pasniedzējs Latvijas Mākslas akadēmijā un fotogrāfijas izglītības platformā ISSP un darbojas mākslinieku kolektīvā “Weekly Impossible”. Sandija pirmā fotogrāfiju personālizstāde “Gaiss” notika 2018. gadā.
Toms
Mūrnieks
ndustrial designer in the company "Bubblebee Industries", previously coordinated the development of innovative products at the Science and Innovation Center of Riga Technical University. He holds prototyping masterclasses for companies and academia internationally. Toms has started his PhD studies at RTU with the aim of improving the equipment of the Latvian Olympic luge team.
Agnese
Narņicka
Head of the Department of Fashion Design and Associate Professor at the Academy of Arts of Latvia. Since 2012, Agnese has been the fashion designer and creative director of the "One Wolf" brand, regularly participating in international and local fashion shows and exhibitions. Agnese is looking for sources of inspiration for the collections in science, history, now and in the future on important social and cultural issues.