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, and the entries had to reflect the changing lifestyle of the future information society. Korhonen and Puintila’s competition entry was a grow box system where people can grow their own food even in small apartments. Korhonen and Puintila won the competition because the jury though that the grow box was able to address the theme of the competition in a creative way.

The archive of Touko Korhonen and Simo Puintila consists of two different sized grow box systems and background material related to their design. The background material includes sketches, photographs, press articles and a project portfolio, which is a comprehensive description of the design process from the first ideas to the winning design competition. Here you can see Korhonen and Puintila’s archive catalogue and digitised materials.

Read more about the design of the grow box system in Design stories.