Feliksas Daukantas

Because of the artist changed attitudes towards amber jewelry design and the conception of substance.

Daukantas made original amber jewellery, worked in the fields of industrial graphics, visual communication, created sculptures, wood and metal ware, leather samplers (standards) for mass production, toys.

While being engaged in the practical artistic work he started incubating an idea about training of professional developers of material environment, specialists of industrial design, with which in 1961 he came to Vilnius Art Institute (from 1990 Vilnius Academy of Arts), where in the same year he founded Industry Products Artistic Design Department, became its lecturer and supervisor (until 1985); since 1979 he worked as a professor.

For Vilnius Central Post Office he designed the system for operational visual symbols (in 1969).

He was the creator of covers for periodicals Žemės ūkis (Agriculture), Statyba ir architektūra (Construction and Architecture); he published articles about industrial art, home environment aesthetics.

Professor Feliksas Daukantas