After more than a decade of dedicated and tireless work, I have made the difficult decision to close www.inukdesign.one.

Over the years, Inuk Design has received several international awards and recognitions. Together with my husband, I also had the great honour of receiving the Self-Government Cultural Award — one of the highest cultural recognitions in Greenland. We remain deeply grateful for this acknowledgement of our work.

For more than ten years we have worked persistently to bring Greenlandic design to an international audience and to explore the possibility of exporting design from Greenland. Our work has always been driven by a strong belief that Greenlandic design has a unique voice and perspective to offer the world.

We are sincerely grateful to the institutions and funding bodies that have supported our work financially, believing in the vision that Inuk Design could contribute to the international presence of Greenlandic design.

Throughout the years many people in Greenland have praised and appreciated my work, and that recognition has meant a great deal to me. However, appreciation alone is unfortunately not enough to sustain a design business economically.

I have made countless attempts to introduce my products to Danish design stores and international markets, but without success. At the same time, we have come to understand that exporting design from Greenland is far more complex and challenging than one might initially expect.

Another difficult reality has been that I have, on several occasions, been passed over for interviews and opportunities to present my work because I am a Danish-speaking Greenlander. It is a painful experience to acknowledge, but it has also been part of the reality I have encountered along the way.

After more than ten years of continuous effort, I must therefore conclude that there is not a sufficient economic foundation for Inuk Design to continue.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my husband, who has worked just as tirelessly and supported me throughout this entire journey. Without his dedication and belief in the project, Inuk Design would not have existed for so many years.

It has been a great honour to work with the ambition of bringing Greenlandic design into the world. I sincerely hope that future designers from Greenland will find stronger structures and better opportunities to succeed internationally.

Thank you to everyone who has followed, supported and shown interest in Inuk Design over the years.

The page will close May 2026 - 18 years after I went online with inuk Design.

P.S. Selected products will still be available in museum shops in Nuuk, Paamiut and Sisimiut, as well as in the Netherlands.

However, I will no longer continue designing new products.