santa(at)santakupca(dot)com


3d & spatial designer

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Education





Design Academy Eindhoven
BA, Identity department
Eindhoven, Netherlands
09/2016 - 09/2020
            Riga School of Design and Art
Interior Design Specialist
Riga, Latvia
09/2012 - 07/2016







Publications


Assouline Metaverse Dream 2022



NXS World  #6: Phygital Fashioning  2022


Dezeen 2021





Salone del Mobile 'Missed Your Call' 2021

DAE exhibition 'Missed Your Call' 5-10 September 2021, Milan Dezeen



The Art Newspaper 2021
 


The Art Newspaper LTD. Est. 1983, Vol. XXX,
Number 331, February 2021


Fast Company
 

ICON


Plain Magazine

Label Magazine


Featured by PAGE magazine
Print publication December 2021


VPRO


Dutch Design Week
https://ddw.nl/en/programme/4756/decrypted-garments



Design Academy Eindhoven

 Project Catalogue Graduation Show 2020 Design Academy Eindhoven 
Publisher Design Academy Eindhoven 331, February 2021

Project ‘Decrypted Garments’
https://designacademy.nl/p/study-at-dae/graduation-show/graduation-projects/santa-kupca


Design in Quarantine


Arts Thread



Woth

Trend Agency Move

Publication Trend Movement AW 22/23
Project ‘Decrypted Garments’



©Santa Kupča 2020 

DECRYPTED GARMENTS



Since I got my first computer at the age of eleven, I quickly found myself immersed in virtual chat rooms such as Habia World or Habbo. I loved to dress my virtual avatar in the pixelated dresses and I'd dream to own them in reality. 
Decrypted Garments is a collection of 8 looks that are created by 3d scanning and digitally manipulating my own wardrobe during the time of pandemic in the beginning of 2020. I explored my own digital identity and speculated how could we communicate digital garments in the future. 
In the digital space there's no need for the wearer of the clothes, they can 'wear' themselves. 



Featured by Dezeen


Featured on print Assouline Metaverse Dream 2022
https://www.assouline.com/products/metaverse-dream


Featured by NXS World  #6: Phygital Fashioning  2022


Featured by PAGE magazine
Print publication December 2021

Salone del Mobile 'Missed Your Call' DAE exhibition 'Missed Your Call' 5-10 September 2021, Milan

Featured by VPRO:
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/mondo/artikelen/specials/tien-graduates-ddw-2020.html


Featured by Design Academy Eindhoven Graduashion Show:
https://designacademy.nl/p/study-at-dae/graduation-show/graduation-projects/santa-kupca


Featured by Design Academy Eindhoven Graduashion Show:
Project Catalogue Graduation Show 2020 Design Academy Eindhoven
Publisher Design Academy Eindhoven


Graduation project Design Academy Eindhoven
Identity department

2020 

Sound: Misha Douglas MacLaren & Yasha Mostert








                                      

         



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                                                                                                            My Habia World avatar in the red dress with black flowers in 2010.

                                                                                                                                                     First sketches. My wardrobe drawn in pixels.