Regional Designers 2023

Born in Gaza, she has lived in Prague since she was two months old, where she studied architecture at the Academy of Arts Design and Architecture. There she also tried her hand at other disciplines such as bookbinding, typography, screen printing, lithography and offset. Thus, she approaches her work in a complex and multidisciplinary way.… Keep reading

Jakub Knápek’s work, which balances on the edge between design and fine art, is intertwined with his fascination with materials, colour and methods of production. Most often he works with glass, but his experience from his internship at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn has directed him to a broader range of materials, where… Keep reading

Sara Drobikova is a Prague-based designer who works with space and physical materials. She experiments with the methods of traditional craftsmanship and challenges existing machinery and tech possibilities by always seeking environmental and human imprints in her work. Sara balances on the line between experimental and research design and uses unconventional materials like glass, metal… Keep reading

Regular Company is a multidisciplinary design studio working within the fields of products, interiors, branding and digital design.It was founded in 2015, building upon the award winning work of its co-founders Ruder Novak-Mikulic, Marinko Murgic, Tihomir Filipec and their former partners and collaborators, who have been working together on various projects in the creative industries… Keep reading

Clayp is not another regular lightning object standing still on the table. It’s a lamp, manufactured by Ukrainian women, who use a unique mix based on clay. Made of natural herbs, plants, marble dust, recycled fiber, and clay, gathered in 7 various regions of Ukraine, Clayp appears to be a recyclable piece of art. Humanism,… Keep reading

The Artisan factory emerged from the traditional woodwork shop Ćostović, based in Tešanj, which conveyed all its love towards wood and 50-year experience of wood processing into it. Artisan specializes in the manual production of high quality furniture made from solid wood, and this insistence on manual, artisan work is what sets us apart. We… Keep reading

The OKO Brand / Malwina Konopacka was established in 2014, debuting with the OKO vase design, which was first presented during Designers Week in Tokyo. Over the past nine years, the collection of objects designed by Malwina Konopacka has grown with new forms and several color variants. All these objects exist on the boundary between… Keep reading

Anna Zimmermann Anna Zimmermann is a Swiss designer based in Vienna. Straddling between art and object design, her practice explores the relationship between material culture, mass production and craftsmanship. She draws inspiration from everyday observations and translates them into socially relevant discourses. Her work crosses multiple media and often incorporates elements of disruption, absurdity and… Keep reading

The Rap family business has been operating for 33 years and is managed by 2 generations of furniture and interior makers. Rap specializes in the realization of creative projects. It also offers products of its own design and production. All elements manufactured exclusively by RAP. The originality, and authenticity of the Rap series of elements… Keep reading

Anton Defant is a interdisciplinary creator and designer based in Berlin, Germany. He works at the intersection between product and sculpture, whose projects range from scenography to object ba- sed sculpture and the design of consumer goods. Some of his clients include „Wiener Staatsballet“, „Brandelhuber+“ and copenhagen fashionbrand „Mfpen“. Ballast Running shoes with a suit,… Keep reading