BAIBA LINGA PORTFOLIO PRODUCT DESIGN

PORTFOLIO BAIBA LINGA-BERZINA 2009

PORTFOLIO of designer BAIBA LINGA-BERZINA www.baibalinga.lv linga777@gmail.com

ABOUT me

Allways on the way to find different points of view in a concept.

I agree to Paul Arden’s idea - “ Whatever you think - think the opposite!”

I like to play with people habits, their ever y day rutine and casuality - nice subjec t to play with, change or even break it.

Interested in produc t design as a communicator between concept idea and produc t user. I t is interesting, how people take things differently. I t inspires me to communicate with them in specific way - one of the reasons to make a produc t for some special audience.

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This object will give you support, when you need it the most. It will help you to come up with new ideas which usually happens in the toilet, if you are sitting there for a long time.

There are three kinds of support posittions: 1. thinking, 2. writting, 3. relaxing.

Material - plastic.

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FURNITURE design

Isn’t it strange to read in the toilet?

Do it just like people do!

THINKING BOARD

WORKING process

SALONE SATELLITE / MOSCOW

SALONE SATELLITE / MOSCOW

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The Sitting ring is ment to help you in a short time of sitting period, when you are tired from a long walk or standing, or it is a solution in places where you don’t have a furniture at all.

Materials - rope, stainless steel, cotton.

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FURNITURE design

A wild return into nature!

WORKING process

FURNITURE FAIR / GREENHOUSE STOCKHOLM

SALONE SATELLITE MOSCOW

ME & MARVA GRIFFIN

FURNITURE FAIR / GREENHOUSE STOCKHOLM

SALONE SATELLITE MOSCOW

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PRODUCT design

2007

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PRODUCT design

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FURNITURE design

2007

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PRODUCT design

2007

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PRODUCT design

2008

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WORKING process

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EXHIBIOTIONS

FURNITURE FAIR / GREENHOUSE STOCKHOLM

ART DAYS IN BERGA BAZARS RIGA

MARKET ON KALNCIEMA STREET RIGA

CREATIVE SPACE TASTY RIGA

MARKET AT SPICE RIGA

MARKET ON KALNCIEMA STREET RIGA

DMY BERLIN

DMY BERLIN

MEESTERLIJK EINDHOVEN

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PRODUCT design

2008

KALNCIEMA STREET MARKET RIGA PORTFOLIO PORTFOLIO of of designer designer BAIBA BAIBA LINGA-BERZINA LINGA-BERZINA www.baibalinga.lv www.baibalinga.lv linga777@gmail.com linga777@gmail.com

PRODUCT design

WORKING PROCESS

2009

MORE COMFORT SLEEPING ON A FACE

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PRODUCT design

WORKING PROCESS

2009

MOSSED THINGS

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PRODUCT design

2009

IF YOU LOVE THE TREE LOVE THE BUSH TOO

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PRODUCT AND GRAPHIC design

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MILK PACK

2006

UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN HELSINKI

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CRAFTSMENSHIP

2004

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2004

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CRAFTSMENSHIP

SILVER TABLE TOOLS

INTERIOR projects

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INTERIOR projects

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INTERIOR projects

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INTERIOR projects

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PUBLICATIONS IN catalogues

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PUBLICATIONS IN magasines

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PUBLICATIONS IN magasines

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INTERVIEW IN magasine

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What is, in your opinion, design and a designer?

What are the career passibilities for a designer in Latvia?

What is the highest goal of your career and your professional ideal?

Baiba Linga Bērziņa, born 1982, product and graphic designer There has been a lot of talking about the search of the roots and the future of the Latvian design in the past and the ethnography. Baiba Linga-Bērziņa right now is the one, who has realized this well thought ideas most successfully. Her most noticable achievement is a series of candles, in which latvian ethnographic signs are integrated with elegance and they are up-to-date. In the creative CV of Baiba there are also other clever solutions of everyday situations with the help of design: an unusual pillow with a face on it, a sitting ring as an alternative to a chair in the open air and others.

More information: http://www.baibalingaberzina.lv/ 1.

Design is the altruistic observation of the human everyday-life. The meaning of the word design is extending with every day, it becomes more harder to define and harness it. For me design as such and creating it is a intelectual and emotional game of wit. During the game a subject is created, that can change a humans life by improving or destroying it. A designer is a participant of the game and the results as well as the consequences lay on his conscience.

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A career in context with Latvia is said too loud. I would not like to sound pesimistic, but right now a career in Latvia is impossible. Often the work with a producer or a client brings one to selfviolation. Most pleasant and productive is it to create design prototypes in my own space and with my own money and to hope that one day they will find their place in the production and afterwards in the everyday life. The designer has to be not only the creator of a design product, but he has to become a business person, who can sell his ideas on the market.

Right now is the time to create optimistic, utopian ideas, so that they can be fulfilled when the good times come. I hope that the complaints about the crisis will not be reflected in the latvian design and that they will not lumber with us for centuries to come.

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By using the overall confusion, it is necessary to do everything in ones power to get new knowledge. If necessary, you should even work without being paid, because I believe, that sooner or later it will pay off. It is important to go abroad to hunt new impressions. Right now I’m collecting and reflecting on my experience as a graphic designer in advertisment as well as cognitions of the teachers position at the Riga Design and Art School.

My professional ideal would be to work in a designer union creating new products and fulfill projects here, in Latvia. I would like to solve designer problems, not the financial ones.

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INTERVIEW IN magasine

For all the new designers, that are for them worth marking out, had the magazine „Pastaiga” three questions:

Question: Have you bought and used products created and produced by design companies in Latvia in 2009? Please, name some latvian design examples, that you consider have a good quality and a reasonable price, and that you would buy yourself and recommend to others.

Candles.

Designed by Baiba Linga-Bērziņa.

Comment: Close and pleasant because of the use of ethnical symbols, the price is not very low, but reasonable.

(Raita Grīnberga, public sector employee) A LOOK OVER THE SHOULDER: LV DESIGN 2009 Question: Is there a creation of a latvian designer, that should be marked out with its conceptual solution in 2009?

Textil design: (...) Pillow Pillowface, designed by Baiba Linga-Bērziņa (...)

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PUBLICATIONS IN magasines

A LOOK OVER THE SHOULDER: LV DESIGN 2009

Project was based on latvian language characteristics, on the way people usually say when they measuse.

People often use sayings like edge of the knife, half of the spoon or “on eye ”.

Project materialise those sayings and “grave them in stone”.

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MANAGED projects

I managed a diploma project of Riga Design and Art School 2009 The name of project MEASURE TOOLS Author student IEVA SKUJA

The name of project AMBUSCADE Author student KATRINA ÄŒEMME Multiple birdhouse in the city, where small birds can rise their children and people can watch their times.

The name of project GUTS Author student AGNESE ÄŒEMME Water tap in the Riga city.

It is a hudge problem in Riga city to get water in hot summer day, so Agnese made a design for watere tap with hand sensor and lightning.

As an inspiration she chosed nature a grass scape and water.

The name of project STREAMBOTTLE Author student KARLIS BOGUSTOVS Water bottle design line. Water is alive, whatever you say to water he keeps inside. So you have to give a lot of good words to water in these botles, the spirituality simbolizes mandala on it. For water tidiness there is silver string inside.

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MANAGED projects

I managed a diploma projects of Riga Design and Art School 2010

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