Ahlström Krister
Krister Ahlström, vuorineuvos (honorary title), industrialist and design activist, is a prominent figure in Finnish business. He worked for Wärtsilä for 15 years before joining the family-owned company A.
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Antikainen Tuomas
Tuomas Antikainen graduated as an industrial designer from the University of Art and Design in 1992. Before that, he had studied scenography. Antikainen spent the years after graduation working as a freelance designer until the mid-1990s,
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Asikainen Kari
Kari Asikainen graduated as an interior architect from the School of Art and Design in 1966. After graduation, Asikainen worked in various architecture agencies and has had his own office,
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Bestform
Bestform was a design agency operating in Jyväskylä in 1986 – 2015. Their branch of business included industrial design, product development, product graphics design and modelling.
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Blomstedt Kaisa
Kaisa Blomstedt, Interior Architect SIO (1947-2017) was a well-known, long-standing interior design professional. She established her first interior design agency in 1970. Blomstedt’s handprint can be seen in numerous hotels and restaurants,
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ED-Design
ED-Design, a design agency based in Turku was founded in 1990. The company, initially known as Design Studio E&D, was born when two design studios,
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Ergoplan
Ergoplan was a design agency operating in Jyväskylä in 1981 – 1993. The founding member and CEO of the company was Raimo Nikkanen, a distinguished industrial designer.
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Forma Finlandia
The plastic design competition Forma Finlandia concept was created in the mid-1980s to support the corporate image objectives of the internationalising Neste company and to increase the acceptability of plastics and environmental awareness of plastics.
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Heimala Heikki
Heikki Heimala graduated with a degree in interior architecture from the School of Art and Design in 1966. Even before graduating, Heimala worked as an interior designer at Rauma-Repola’s and Wärtsilä Group’s shipyards.
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Junttila Ulla-Kirsti
Ulla-Kirsti Junttila graduated as an industrial designer from the University of Art and Design in 1978. During her studies she specialised in urban environment design and continued in the same field when she graduated as a Licentiate of Arts in 1994.
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Kangas Erkki
Graphic designer Erkki Kangas graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the School of Art and Design in 1972. In the years after graduation, Kangas worked as an AD in various advertising agencies until 1999,
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Korhonen Touko & Puintila Simo
Industrial design students Touko Korhonen and Simo Puintila participated in the Habitare ´99 competition for young designers in 1999. The theme of the competition was the furniture environment in the home,
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Linja Design
Linja Design was founded in Helsinki in 1986 as a subsidiary of Ergonomiadesign, a design studio in Turku. One of Linja’s first projects was to design a diving computer for Suunto.
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Loiri Pekka
Pekka Loiri is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poster art, and his work is known for its clear lines and strong colours. In addition to poster design,
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Maunula Kirsti
Kirsti Maunula (1935-2015), a fashion artist, MTO and costume designer, graduated from the Fashion Art Department of the School of Art and Design in 1959.
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Miettinen Eero
Eero Miettinen graduated as an industrial designer from the University of Art and Design in 1980. He then worked as a designer in the Finnish truck and car industry and in high-tech companies.
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Muurame
Muurame is a Finnish furniture factory founded in Lahti in 1925 by Martti Vaara and his brothers. The original name of the company was Veljekset Vaara.
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Ojala Esa
Esa Ojala is a versatile designer, especially known as a corporate graphic designer and poster designer. During his career, he has also worked in product,
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Piippo Kari
Kari Piippo, one of Finland’s most internationally renowned graphic designers, graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the School of Art and Design in 1967.
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Pilve Pentti
Pentti Pilve started his career in 1962 as an advertising journalist in Tampere. He studied at the Helsinki School of Economics and the Helsinki Institute of Marketing.
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Product design Pentti Leskinen
Pentti Leskinen (1929-2005) worked as a silversmith and visual artist before becoming an industrial designer. When he started studying industrial design, Leskinen was quite an accomplished artist,
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Ruuhinen Erkki
Professor Emeritus Erkki Ruuhinen is one of the most internationally renowned graphic designers in Finland. He has played a key role in raising the profile of Finnish graphic design.
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Saarnio Timo
Timo Saarnio graduated with a degree of interior architect in 1971 from the Helsinki School of Art and Design. For the first ten years after graduation,
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Salo Kai
Before his design studies, Kai Salo (1938-2017) studied precision mechanics at Turku Vocational School and worked as a drafter in an architectural office in Turku.
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Salora, electronics collection
The Salora electronics collection contains eleven televisions manufactured by Salora in the 1970s and 1980s. The televisions were designed by industrial designers Jorma Pitkonen, Heikki Kiiski and Ilja Sunell.
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Salovaara Juhani
Juhani Salovaara strives to find sustainable product solutions, and he is inspired by designing products where the designer has to think beyond the content. A burning interest in design has guided Salovaara throughout his career,
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Sanna Simola’s collection
The archive contains interviews of the industrial designers for the TunneTKO Industrial Designers book. The Festschrift is edited by Sanna Simola and Marjukka Mäkelä. The interviewed designers are Eero Rislakki,
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Studio Knorring
Interior Architect Peter von Knorring (1932-2020) graduated from the Department of Interior Design at the School of Art and Design in 1957. After graduation, he worked as a freelance interior designer for an architecture company until 1966,
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Taivalvuo Auvo
In the early 1950s, illustrator and visual artist Auvo Taivalvuo worked for the Fauni company in Järvenpää. Taivalvuo drew popular troll characters that appeared in comics,
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Taskinen Ahti
Ahti Taskinen graduated as an interior architect from the Interior Design Department of the School of Art and Design in 1963. Taskinen was interested in furniture design already during his studies.
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Tuntu
Tuntuu designed and manufactured hammock benches for saunas and operated in 2009 – 2022. The idea for the new benches started when the father of the idea,
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Vaajakallio Jukka
Jukka Vaajakallio’s design philosophy can be summed in the following way: “Good design does not mean a better-looking product, it means a better product”. Vaajakallio has always emphasised the functionality of a product at the expense of its design flow and aesthetic qualities,
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Vuoden Huiput / Grafia
Vuoden Huiput is Finland’s most important creative design competition, founded by designers in 1980. The annual event aims to raise the level of design, foster creativity and originality,
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Väätänen Risto
Risto Väätänen considers industrial design to be a strong competitive advantage and the three basic principles of his design work are cost-effectiveness of products, usability of machinery and suitable appearance.
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Wegelius Yrjö
Yrjö Wegelius graduated as an interior architect from the School of Art and Design in 1967. During his career, he has worked in many different architectural agencies and led his own design agency.
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Wikström Pekka
Pekka Wikström (1938-2011) was a pioneer of industrial design. Wikström graduated from the School of Art and Design as a metal artist in 1964. Wikström started his designer career when he was still a student.
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