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
Swan has made the album entirely on her own, interpreting Pavement’s boyish, guitar-dominated college rock through a female voice which is accompanied by a piano, keyboards and drum machine.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Hertta Lussu Ässä’s album gets its influences from ominous ambience, bright minimalism, sleepy folk and repetitive krautrock.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Kerkko Koskinen’s fourth album approaches the 60s big band jazz through eleven original compositions.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Mostly Cloudy 
20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
Outi Heiskanen – Primordial Sea
11. February 2012
Didrichsen Museum
15. February 2012
City Museum Helsinki
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