Born in 1987 in Tallinn, Estonia.

Helena is a 3D designer currently working and living in London, and occasionally in Tallinn.

Since early age, she has harboured a passion for making things with her hands and wondering how things are made.

Helena’s work explores industrial processes and how they can be manipulated to create unique, poetical and functional products. Besides materials and processes, she is obsessed with light and shadows and, how the concept of shadows can be translated into tangible objects. 

She has worked and continues to work on a very wide range of projects, ranging from utensils, furniture, window blinds to installations.

Education/
Royal College of Art
MA Design Products
October 2010 - July 2012
www.rca.ac.uk

Kingston University London
1st class BA(Hons) Product & Furniture Design
Commendation for dissertation
September 2006 - June 2009
www.kingston.ac.uk

Awards & Achievements/
2012 Best Young Designer's Award SÄSI
2012 Ruth Drew Prize
2012 Nominated for Helen Hamlyn Design Awards
2012 House & Garden Scholarship
2011 House Beautiful Award
2011 Installation for Fendi flagship store in London
2010 Shortlisted for Wallpaper graduate directory
2010 New Design Britain award
2009 D&AD Best New Blood award
2008 Coillte: Best use of materials