The World Design Weeks project which will be launched at Helsinki Design Week aims to create and strengthen the cooperation and synergies between different countries’ design weeks. Helsinki Design Week will be the engine of the project together with the London Design Festival, Dutch Design Week and a couple other design weeks.
Text Heini Lehtinen
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
Design agency COMPANY is known for playful and humoristic products and projects such as their toadstool stool and apparel-come-furniture.
Text Heini Lehtinen
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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