RAPOLAS GRAŽYS

Rapolas Gražys (born 1991) is a product designer, founder and developer of the international brand LAVA DROPS.

Graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Industrial Design. She has held a fellowship at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts. Specialising in industrial and one-off, innovative and conceptual product development, high-end audio musical instruments and high-end technology.

Rapolas Gražys founded LAVA DROPS in 2014, a brand that combines sound with technology and design. Under this label, he creates exclusive functional artworks – stringed musical instruments played by famous musicians such as: Jack White (White Stripes), Andrius Mamontovas, Lora Kmieliauskaitė, Robertas Semeniukas, In Two We Break, Paul Davids, Kfir Ochaion and others. Other Lava Drops players include Tommy Emmanuel, Dominic Miller (Sting), Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Robin Finck (Guns’n’Roses) and Bill Frisell.

Rapolas Gražis’s work is part of the history of Lithuanian design, and his work is regularly featured in global exhibitions and museums of contemporary art, music and innovation. Among other awards, Gražys has won 2 global Red Dot Design Awards for his work.

She has been with the school since 2016. From 2021, he will be the school’s director.

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