Rikke Hagen graduated from The Danish Design School (now the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design), the line of glass and ceramics , in 1998, and since then she has received several awards for her design, including Ole Haslund’s Honorary Grant in 2007, the iF product design award in 2008 and the Award Nordic Relations in 2010. In her design work, Rikke Hagen strives to maintain a curious, exploratory and innovative approach, but she also adheres to a set of ground rules, for example the inherent limitations in a given task. To Rikke Hagen, working with limitations is also very much about seeking new boundaries and inventing new methods and solutions. In her working process, along with pursuing idea generation she also turns to the library of traditional knowledge about techniques, craftsmanship and idiom, among other things. Rikke Hagen is motivated by the balance between the unique and mass production along with the endeavour of gathering and rephrasing new knowledge and rethinking it in new contexts.