Bravo!, the International Theatre Festival for Children and Youth, introduces James Blond as well as performances by four other international theater groups.
Text Heini Lehtinen, Petra Vuolanen
Photos Bravo! / Theater groups
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
“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
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
The international advisory board has been put together in the background of Helsinki Design Week and its purpose is to develop HDW and its events for 2012.
Text Heini Lehtinen
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
gTIE, a collection with a rock ‘n’ roll attitude, includes ties and other neckwear made of leather, feathers, fur, lace, chains and even fish skin.
Text Heini Lehtinen
…Or a caffè latte with raw milk? Both options will be available at the Eat&Joy marketplace in Kluuvi, offering food products from small Finnish farms as of October.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Sanna Lehto
Artist Noora Isoeskeli’s photographs, illustrations and paintings discuss small insights with the visitor.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Clothing designer Marjut Uotila’s mens’ collection Dusty is an insightful and experimentational avantgarde-esque collection that has gathered a lot of attention at fashion fairs from Paris to Florence.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Juha Arvid Helminen
Consisting of designers and fine carpenters, the Woodism group produces wooden products made from trees felled in parks and private yards that would’ve otherwise ended up chopped or dumped.
Text Heini Lehtinen
A yellow building at the corner of Senate Square is uncovering after a renovation. In a year, it will be the epicenter of Helsinki’s World Design Capital year.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Juuso Noronkoski
More and more 20-to-30-year-olds spend Christmas Eve at a bar. Inviting friends over to spend the holidays is a new phenomenon in Finland. In spite of all this, traditions seem to be far more important now than for previous generations.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Miika Saksi
Musuta Ltd. burst into design-oriented minds in June 2010, when they won the coveted Gold Lion award at Cannes International Advertising Festival.
Text Heini Lehtinen
For a long time, Finns have been said to share with the Japanese an affection with simple shapes and basic colors. Scandinavian design has been popular in Japan for over a decade, and its popularity doesn’t seem to be fading. The Hirameki project, set for launch in Tokyo in October, aims to keep it that way.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Anders Westerholm
Skanno kicked off the new decade by launching a concept store, designed by Anna Katriina Tilli, in downtown Helsinki. At the same time, the company is heading into the international furniture market with their own collection.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Juuso Noronkoski
Hub Helsinki organized a World Design Capital 2012 brainstorming day in Helsinki at the end of May. During Helsinki Design Week, it is exploring urban gardens and communal construction. What Hub Helsinki?
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Tanja Korvenmaa
Lavatanssit, organized by the designer group Kaamos, is a combination of design exhibition mixed with a summery open-air dance.
Lavatanssit i.e. exhibition opening on Espa stage (Esplanadi park) 31 August 2010 at 6 pm.
Lavatanssit exhibition on Espa Stage, 31 August–3 September 2010.
20 images and 20 seconds to talk about each image, that’s a total of six minutes and forty seconds to talk about a topic. What would you talk about?
PechaKuchaNight (theater) 28 August 2010, The Korjaamo Culture Factory.
PechaKuchaNight (design) 2 September 2010, The Cable Factory.
Chinese architect Zhang Ke represents a new and emerging generation of Chinese architects. He will also give a lecture at the Cable Factory at Helsinki Design Week.
Zhang Ke at the Cable Factory, 1 September 2010.
Creative professionals from both Finland and the Netherlands will share their views on future trends in Trend Book which has been created by Helsinki Design Week in cooperation with Dutch Design Week.
“Choosing typography and illustrations for a poster is kind of similar to piecing together drum sounds and beats and throwing in some samples.”
Text Heini Lehtinen
What do Helsinkians want for their city? “A trash bag vending machine for dog poo. ” “Free soda, and more soda machines.” “Designer bird houses in parks, so you could hear birds singing in the winter.”
Text Heini Lehtinen
”Finns are under the impression that wine should be sipped in a wine cellar wearing silk gloves, when actually the producers walk around their vineyards in tattered denim shorts smoking a joint.”
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Matti Tanskanen
“The color of music is now quite white, and new artists and albums are flowing out of the indie rock-folk-electro field, maybe even too much”, says Tuomas Kallio, musician and artistic director of Flow Festival and Pori Jazz.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Verna Kovanen
Clear 
20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Seven Connections – Finnish Architecture Abroad
11. January 2012
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
DesignWorld – Designing the New World
27. January 2012
Design Museum
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