Shoe designer Terhi Pölkki wanted to make things a bit differently. The emphasis of her shoe collection lies in ecological materials, practicality and fit.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Timo Anttonen
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THE STYLE ISSUE COMING OUT ON
1 FEBRUARY 2012!
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Shoe designer Terhi Pölkki wanted to make things a bit differently. The emphasis of her shoe collection lies in ecological materials, practicality and fit.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Timo Anttonen
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THE STYLE ISSUE COMING OUT ON
1 FEBRUARY 2012!
“Recently I haven’t restricted the theme, but rather done gesture paintings, intuitive gestures,” says Jukka Rusanen. “My aim has been to get rid of the original images so that the use of the color and method was enough.”
Text Heini Lehtinen
New Year’s Eve 2012 in Helsinki? Check out We Are Helsinki’s NYE picks!
Finnish contemporary circus is flourishing. The opening of the new Cirko center made Suvilahti in Helsinki the home for the industry.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Cecilia Galera
Column by Laura Köönikkä / FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
When talking about internationalization, it should be kept in mind that being local provides material for our identity, creates development and history. The local aspect is what matters.
Photo Jukka Ovaskainen
Comic book shops in Helsinki are like the items they sell – unique. The best ones have a story behind them, supported by the original setting.
Text Ville Matilainen
Photos Matti Tanskanen
The Kaurismäki brothers’ 20-year-old cultural complex Andorra has it all; pool tables and weekend brunches at Corona, movies at Kino, live music at Dubrovnik and a Soviet atmosphere at Kafe Moskova.
Text Sirje Niitepõld
Photos Hanne Granberg
Tesla coil synthesizers, stalactite caves and a psychic foretelling machine – no wonder it usually takes four years to make and release a Pepe Deluxé album.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Noora Isoeskeli
During the past year Finland has seen the emergence of several rap artists with an immigrant background. Who are they and why are they talked about right now?
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Antti Ahtiluoto
The Greatest Love Songs consists of ten dancers’ smaller performances which have been inspired by a personal love song and a related story. Under the mushy surface you can find sensitivity, passion and surprising performers.
Text Petra Vuolanen
Photos Pietari Hatanpää
Sound of Helsinki-based Black Twig is a mixture of the 1980s chiming indie bands, 1960s psychedelia, shoegazing buzz and garage esthetics.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Auteur Jazz’s style has often been described as “action jazz” – and for good reason. The band’s drive is quite breathtaking on their third album.
Text Teemu Fiilin
At its lightest the softly psychedelic and slightly cinematic 1970s progressive pop of Club Merano sounds like Air’s more rocking relative and at its vaguest like a Beatles tribute band that has swallowed Pink Floyd and Rush.
Text Teemu Fiilin
BMMB has created an amazing debut with futuristic space funk and R&B using wailing synths and unnaturally synthetic drum beats.
Text Teemu Fiilin
WDC and the City of Helsinki have promised to hold a great party when the traditional New Year’s party at Senate Square becomes the World Design Capital’s opening ceremony.
Text Petra Vuolanen
Illustration Jee Hei
The story of the urban clothing label Makia Clothing is reflected in their clothes. Success requires a lot of hard work, a healthy business philosophy and a relaxed work environment. It’s also cool to look good.
Text Ville Matilainen
Photos Niklas Sandström
Recently a group of Guggenheim Museum staff from New York visited Helsinki. They were wondering why the internationally renowned design city doesn’t have up-to-date and appropriate spaces for displaying design. Exactly. Maybe it’s a “shoemaker’s children have no shoes” phenomenon.
Text Aila Svenskberg
Photo Juuso Noronkoski
The Shanghai Cowboy brings life to Kaartinkaupunki. The food draws its inspiration from Mexico, but doesn’t even try to be traditional – or what do you think about Mexican-style reindeer meat?
Text Petra Vuolanen
Photos Alfonso Almendros
Helsinki will be the World Design Capital for 2012. In order to make Finland visible before the World Design Capital year, the city and Finnish design are already being displayed abroad.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Bernhard Ludewig, Perttu Saksa
The Helsinki-based Regina knows that time is a pop band’s worst enemy. However, it found a new sound from its own past.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Sanna Lehto
The Helsinki-based Siinai may be a newcomer to the indie scene, but its music is far from the pleasantly loud traditional indie sound. That could hardly even be expected from a band that wants to create a theme album for the Olympics.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Vesa Mäkinen
Workspaces are joining forces in Helsinki. The Mushrooming network is expected to bear all kinds fruits of cooperation – or should we say mushrooms.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Veikko Kähkönen
Patterns and prints of Project Papillon, launched in the autumn 2011, are based on art therapy creations of prisoners of Sörnäinen prison.
Text Petra Vuolanen
What is allowed and appropriate? Continuing the long-lasting debate over appropriateness and freedom of speech, this summer the focus has been on SlutWalk marches, England’s week of riots and at one point on a Finnish horse story that circulated on the Internet.
Text Eero Vassinen
Illustration Jaakko Pallasvuo
The furious live ensemble made up of nine guys combines hip hop with everything from reggae to folk and 50s Finnish schlagers to ska.
Text Teemu Fiilin
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