Yesterday, on January 5, the Golden Globes were presented in Los Angeles, where director Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow won a historic victory, taking home the award for Best Animated Motion Picture. This is the first time a film from Latvia has won or been nominated for the prestigious award. 

The emerging architect and artist Pauls Rietums’ professional interests include the strategies of public space and the role of culture in them, as well as graphic and object design. In the Nice Touch sections, Pauls talks about a public space that is accessible to everyone and opens up new perspectives. 

Roberts Rūrāns’ illustrations combine religious motifs with much-loved holiday traditions to present a single story about Christmas celebrations among the family in three festive postage stamp designs.

ISSP invites Baltic artists working in photography to apply for the prestigious European photography platform Futures, which supports young talents in the field. The deadline for applications is January 5, 2025.

The photobook of the legendary Latvian photographer Gunārs Binde brings together a wealth of material covering sixteen of Binde’s most important themes and series of works, featuring 366 photographs.

At the end of the year, the Latvian Art Directors Club (LADC) announced a number of changes, with Kaspars Eglītis, partner and executive creative director of TBWA\Latvia, as the new LADC president. In the Nice Touch section, Kaspars talks about a certain phenomenon that helps him restart.

Fashion designer Agnese Narņicka, founder of the brand One Wolf and head of the Fashion Design Department at the Art Academy of Latvia, talks about a place that will allow design professionals and students to materialise innovative ideas. 

Andrejs and Ernests Kļaviņš are the authors of the internationally acclaimed game The Case of the Golden Idol. A sequel, The Rise of the Golden Idol, has just been released. In this conversation with Andrejs and Ernests, we discussed their path to game development and the works of Color Gray Games, as well as the challenges of game design in Latvia.

As part of his master’s thesis in architecture at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, architect and artist Pauls Rietums explores Riga’s empty houses and vacant lots, searching for an answer to the question of how we can revitalise the neglected places of a shrinking city.

Anna Andersone is one of the leaders of the startup ecosystem in Latvia and the head of the Riga TechGirls movement. In the Nice Touch section, Anna talks about her daily companion that helps her move both her body and her mind.

This month, the game studio Color Gray Games released the new detective game The Rise of the Golden Idol by brothers Andrejs and Ernests Kļaviņš. It is a sequel to their 2022 game The Case of the Golden Idol, which received wide international acclaim and the National Design Award of Latvia 2023 in the digital solutions category.