WDC 2012: At the center of all the action

The first program frame for the World Design Capital 2012 project will be completed in April 2011, after which it will be developed further until 2012.

WDC 2012: ICSID comes to Helsinki

ICSID, the main organization behind the World Design Capital project, will hold a board meeting following the Helsinki Design Week, bringing with it an international group of esteemed design professionals to Helsinki.

Happy brainstorming

The Dutch Brainport Design display for the Happy Living exhibition brings together a cross-section of creations from Eindhoven to the Cable Factory.

Brainport Design for Happy Living at The Cable Factory, 1−4 September 2010.

Towards WDC 2012: Idea of a city

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

Towards WDC 2012: No talk, just design

Helsinki’s strategy for its year as World Design Capital could include a battle against zero-content terminology, says Helsinki-based designer-architect Bryan Boyer.

Text Simo Vassinen
Photos Kaarle Hurtig

Thanks, guys!

By Samu-Jussi Koski

The US reporter looked at me in amazement as I blurted out my reply to his jovial question. I was so exhausted that when the reporter asked me what it was like working in the fashion business in Finland, I didn’t have the energy to muster up a politically correct reply. So I just spit out “Bullshit. Utter bullshit.”

Towards WDC 2012: More than an Aalto vase

Design is everything that combines usability, form and idea.

Text Simo Vassinen