ABOUT
Tactile Baltics is a collaboration project started in 2020 between three design organisations in Baltic countries - NID, Latvian Design Centre and Lithuanian Design Forum. We aim to promote Baltic design abroad through international design events, exhibitions, talks and workshops.
NID
NID promotes a sustainable lifestyle inspired by Nordic living and aesthetics - a love for pure, natural materials and timeless design. Started by Kätlin Lõbu, Maris Kase and Triin Loks in 2015 as a non-profit organisation for promoting Estonian designers abroad. Based equally in Paris and London and keeping a strong connection with Estonia, the concept has expanded to an overall focus on sustainability and collaboration with designers and organisations across Europe and the UK.
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Latvian Design Centre
The Latvian Design Centre (LDC) is dedicated to raising the use of design in business and the public sector in Latvia, connecting and engaging maximum ecosystem members (designers, businesses, policymakers, users etc.) and documenting, promoting and branding Latvian design in Latvia and abroad. It has been established in 2018 under the delegation agreement between the Ministry of Culture of Latvia “On the execution of certain public administration tasks in the field of design”. Ministry of Culture has granted 3 years of continuing financial support for the centre's public administration tasks execution. LDC has already been involved in fields of policymaking, research and training, organised various events of Latvian design representation in the design weeks and fairs, and participated in the European project “Design4Europe”. To strengthen international cooperation and internationalise Latvian design, the centre became a member of the European Design Association (BEDA) in May 2019.
Lithuanian Design Forum
LDF is one of the largest design representation units in the Baltic states and one of the most active design associations in Lithuania. LDF seeks the acknowledgement of design as a catalyst for the development of modern society and the base for sustainable economical growth, it promotes extensive use of design in production and public life. LDF is a sound member of the Lithuanian design ecosystem, it represents the interests of its members and the creative potential of Lithuanian designers in Lithuania and abroad. LDF organizes exhibitions of design works and introduces and promotes good design examples to the public. For more than 15 years it organises Design Week Lithuania and a National design awards competition. It also runs the DESIGN LITHUANIA initiative, a series of Lithuanian design expositions, that have already been showcased in Paris, London, Stockholm, Brussels, Riga, Helsinki and other European capitals. LDF is a proud member of BEDA – Bureau of European Design Associations. LDF currently has over 40 members from the main design industries, ie: furniture design and manufacturing, interior elements and accessories, product industrial design, fashion accessories, textiles.