In the picture that goes with this column I am wearing a Samuji dress. Samuji is a few years old Finnish fashion brand designed by Samu-Jussi Koski who previously worked as a Creative Director at Marimekko.
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It may not appear as huge surprise that both men were continuously experimenting with form and composition.
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After our own World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 media and stakeholder event on Wednesday evening, it's time to return home via Travemunde on a freighter to Helsinki.
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Wednesday, our big day, started with rain. At 9pm, the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 media and stakeholder event dubbed “Cucina Povera” was in full swing, with all the major international media organisations as well as influential names from the design industry represented on the guest list.
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By Tuesday, downtown Milan is brimming with energy and crowds, with design shops and showrooms drawing people in from the swarming streets.
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I am not writing about the Presidential election now, or about any other elections, not even about politics.
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A well-constructed road network and well-maintained roads mean it is possible to get quite far in Europe during a weekend.
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We’ve got 27 hours to find out more about design traditions on freight ships while sailing with Finnlines.
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Developer team. Service design project. Last year, I found these words in the invitation to the Kaisa library design team exciting. The development project of the new student library is namely done together with us, students.
My task has been to report how I like to be in the library, and together with other students ideate a dream library. It has been fun to get to know other students and realise that our ideas about the new library follow the same lines.
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We did it! The World Design Capital weekend drew in over 40,000 people in the Capital Region and Lahti despite record-breaking sub-zero temperatures.
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