The third week of September is celebrated in Estonia as Disainiöö - Tallinn Design Festival. Translated as Design Night - the week-long event was happening already 14th year in the row, from 16th to 22nd of September 2019. The main venue being the grand Noblessner Shipyard, but having satellites all over the city. The Festival called "Future Materials" concentrated on the sustainable topic and aimed to introduce the material innovations used in various products to the wider p

First weekend of September Riina O was in Wales, Pembrokeshire, teaching the glove-making workshop at GDH Leather Courses. Situated in an old chapel building in the middle of Welsh green hills, the 3-day masterclass was an intense introduction to hand-making leather gloves, covering the rich history of these accessories, teaching different stitches used on thin gloving leather and following through each step of making the students´ first leather glove, which was finished just

Our curiosity for new materials is never ending. It has lead our brand´s creative director to explore the Material Futures at CSM and beyond. Since early 2019 Riina has been the material research resident at the Green Lab in London. With the great excitement it´s time to reveal what we have been working on this year! Kombucha is a fermented tea drink that grows layers of bacterial cellulose on its surface to create a barrier with oxygen. This symbiotic colony of bacteria and