Mexican designer José Bermúdez and Juan Carlos Franco of Colombian studio Vrokka created Fauna, an artisanal collection that aims to spread awareness about the current risks to Latin America’s biodiversity. By abstracting the essential form of three endangered species from Mexico, Colombia and other parts of Latin America, Fauna acts as a tribute to the region’s extinct and at-risk animals.

Mexico City-based Studio davidpompa recently launched its new Origo collection at Euroluce during last month’s Salone del Mobile in Milan. The Austrian and Mexican designer once again selected two unlikely materials, this time pairing black volcanic stone with the lightness and semitranslucence of white glass.

Guatemala City-based Studio Agnes has created a revisionist history for Central America, developing a design collection that reflects what might have transpired without the interference of European colonization. Their latest collection, ‘Living-Stone’ offers an alternative outcome to their region’s history, envisioning design in a post-human utopia.

Mexico City-based MASA gallery walks the blurry line between art and design. Launched in February by Hector Esrawe, curator Agé Salajõe, OMR gallery co-founder Cristobal Riestra, and designer Brian Thoreen, the nomadic design, art and architecture gallery features 15 of the city’s top artists and designers, and aims to challenge convention to present Mexico’s contemporary design scene on a global platform, and in unexpected, evolving settings throughout the capital.

Eugenia Díaz, or Uxi, as she likes to be called, is proud to be Mexican. A self-taught ceramicist, her unique earthenware vessels are heavily influenced by her home base in Yucatán, Mexico, where some of the most important pre-hispanic clay investigations are known to have originated.

Colombian designer David del Valle is a visionary within the world of Latin American design. With his international and simultaneously Colombian perspective, del Valle has managed to represent the country in the most important design fairs in the world, returning to his home country with lessons he manages to inject into a variety of initiatives and projects. We sat down with the creator of Tu Taller Design studio and the Medellin Design Week fair, to talk about what 2018 taught him and what he’s looking forward to in 2019.

At kriteria we are dedicated to covering what’s happening in Latin America… but when our favorite New York-based design blog, Sight Unseen, announced their trunk show with major e-commerce platform Moda Operandi, featuring past and current winners of their American Design Hot List (Sight Unseen’s annual editorial award for the 20 names to know in American design), we knew we had to cover it.

The slick new concept behind Barcelona studio Six N. Five’s latest collection combines mid-century Scandinavian design with the futuristic feel of holographic furniture. Repurposing the clean lines, organic curves and minimalism of the celebrated Scandinavian style, the collection dubbed ‘Holo-Scandinavian’ takes this design aesthetic into a surreal universe of the far future or distant past— we can’t be quite sure.

Chloé Valette is the founder of Huskdesignblog, one of our favorite interior design, furniture and trends blogs. Maybe you’ve seen it? Her minimalist style and flawless aesthetic puts the spotlight firmly on the world’s most up-and-coming contemporary and avant-garde designers and her keen eye allows her to spot the most under the radar international trends.