The winners of the Latvian Design of the Year Award competition in five categories have been awarded / Article

The winners of the “Latvian Design of the Year Award” (LDGB) competition in five categories have been awarded and the Grand Prize has also been presented, the representatives of the award informed.

There are three 2nd places in the product design category. The second place went to work for “Elpo” – an air biofilter with remote control and control “Elpo plantbots”. At the same time, the 2nd place went to SIA “Velo Machine” and Alekseja Golovņova transformable stairs for children “HappyMoon”. The second place was also won by Kintija Anna Bērzkalne and Līga Rīga menstrual underwear “Thatday”.

However, in the digital design category, the first place was awarded to the author Olaf Osh for the game “Grunnd [Prologs]”, but in the service, policy and strategy design category, the 1st place was for the experiment” Metropole 3.0 “-” Tet “transition to a hybrid work model, the authors of which are Ingrīda Rone, Madara Zelčāne, Jelena Solovjova, Edmunds Medvedevs, Anda Mūrniece and Agnese Lazareva.

In the category of environmental and interior design, the 1st place is awarded for the work – wooden sculptural object “Ghost Train”, the authors of which are Reinis Liepiņš, Ilze Liepiņa, Ainārs Plankājs, Ieva Landmane, Mārtiņš Ostaņēvičs and Jurģis Prikulis.

1st place in the graphic design category – a book with elements of augmented reality, the author of which is Maija Rozenfelde, but the team has worked in Anda Beitāne, Annija Bičule, Gunda Miķelsone, Maija Rozenfelde, Arturs Kondrats and Amanda Zaeska.

Stories in Sounds has also won the Ministry of Culture’s grand prize.

The special juries of the international jury were presented at the event. They were received by SIA “Longenesis” and the author Linda Šeibe’s digital platform for personalized breast cancer risk research “Skrinings.lv”. The award was also received by the campaign “Everything is norm.a” of the Ministry of Health, SIA “Rozenbauma un māsas”. The authors of the concept and content of the campaign are Marta Krivade and Una Rozenbaum, and the artist is Sven Neiland. The special prize of the jury was also received by SIA “DJA” Pinumu pavilion, the author of which is Didzis Jaunzems and Ksenia Sapega.

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The Latvian Design of the Year Award takes place as a national design competition in cooperation with the Latvian Designers’ Union team in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture. The aim of the award is to identify, evaluate and popularize the best performances of Latvian designers, to promote the application of design created in Latvia, as well as the long-term development and growth of the industry.

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