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Inside the studio of the Moomins creator
This article was published 10 years Born to artistic parents, Tove’s first illustrations were published when she was just 14 years old. “I’m working” was a phrase that cropped up frequently in her diaries, even at this young age – and referred to anything from drawing to actively seeking ideas….
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12th annual Helsinki Design Week takes over the Finnish capital
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Aalto University wins award for new cotton recycling technique
This article was published 10 years Researchers from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the School of Chemical Technology at Helsinki’s Aalto University have won the top H&M Global Change Award for a recycling technique that converts waste-cotton into new textiles. The conversion of the existing ‘Ioncell-F process’…
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Students at Aalto University create 14 different chairs from blackened ash
This article was published 10 years 14 Product and Spatial Design Masters students at Finland’s Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture each responded to the brief for a café chair to be made from the same material – blackened ash – resulting in 14 different prototypes. Kuu by…
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creative spaces :: studio aalto
This article was published 12 years My last creative spaces post was about Aalto House, where Finnish architect Alvar Aalto lived from 1935 until 1976 and worked from 1935 until 1956. As promised, this is the follow up post on the space he moved to in 1956, which I was…
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creative spaces :: aalto house
This article was published 13 years Way back when I started writing my blog in April 2010, I worked on an old school desk in a corner of my bedroom. I had space for two or three inspirations pictures stuck on the wall above it. One of those pictures was…
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interview :: aino-maija metsola
This article was published 13 years One of the highlights of my trip to Helsinki earlier this year was a visit to Marimekko House where all things Marimekko are designed and made. I was lucky enough to interview in-house designer Aino-Maija Metsola. We talked inspirations, ways of working, and finding just the right…
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out and about :: helsinki design district
This article was published 13 years I’ve only been in Helsinki for 24 hours at the time of writing and I already love it. This collection of photos is from my first two hours alone! Lots more detailed posts to follow – I promise! From top to bottom and left…
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out and about :: helsinki
This article was published 13 years confessions of a design geek is off to Helsinki! I saw this film, applied and was selected as one of ten bloggers from over 350 applications to spend a week in Finland, courtesy of Visit Finland. I’ve been chosen for the “Architecture and Design in…