March 9, 2010
Finnish handicraft celebrates a long heritage with ten unique new designs
 
The Friends of Finnish Handicraft association was founded 130 years ago in response to a manifesto urging Finnish artists and crafts enthusiasts to cherish Finland’s national heritage of crafts and to develop the tradition. Textiles have played a central role in Finnish handicraft throughout these years.
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March 8, 2010
Helsinki School: Photography and Video NOW exhibition

Helsinki City Art Museum in Meilahti hosts an exhibition titled Photography and Video NOW consisting of the latest work by the young generation of the Helsinki School. On display are photographs, videos and installations.
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March 2, 2010
Student work from Lahti: Dreams that answer today’s challenges

The Institute of Design and Fine Art in Lahti has collected 13 student furniture designs from the design studio, in the exhibit UNI ON 2010 (“dreams of 2010”).

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February 26, 2010
Snowball promotes Finnish architectural export to China

The potential offered by the Chinese architectural market for international firms and the opportunities of Finnish firms to tap into that market are the themes of Snowball Helsinki Shanghai 2010, an architectural export promotion project carried out in the two cities in February-March.

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February 19, 2010
Light is the focus of ecological and award-winning Finnish design

Habitare, Finland’s largest furniture, interior decoration and design fair, continues its programme of special exhibitions focusing on ecological design. The 2009 fair featured an EcoDesign chair exhibition, and the theme of the second EcoDesign exhibition in 2010 will be light.
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Open Helsinki - Embedding Design in Life
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Video by: Dir. Juho Konstig - Pablo Films, prod. MJÖLK.
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February, 19 2010
Building blocks put together during the spring

It will soon be 12 weeks since the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) announced that Helsinki had been designated World Design Capital 2012. This was a grand and important moment for our design community, the five participating cities (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen and Lahti) and all of Finland. We found ourselves in a new and unique situation.

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