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 MovePublication 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
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:
Featured by Design Academy Eindhoven Graduashion Show:
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
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
Process video:
My Habia World avatar in the red dress with black flowers in 2010.
First sketches. My wardrobe drawn in pixels.