Press Releases

• 18.6.2015

  Petteri Kolinen appointed Managing Director of Design Forum Finland

  Industrial designer, MA, Petteri Kolinen has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Design Forum Finland, the promotion organization of Finnish design. He will begin his new duties on August 1, 2015. In line with its revised strategy, Design Forum Finland will focus increasingly on serving businesses and promoting the competitive advantages enabled by design expertise in the future.

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• 23.2.2015

  Design Forum Finland to get a new strategy and a new managing director

  Design Forum Finland, the promotion organization of Finnish design, will renew its strategy and create a new operating model to better suit the organization’s goals of promoting the competitive advantages enabled by design expertise.

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• 28.1.2015

  Design Forum Finland at Stockholm Design Week

  Design Forum Finland will take Finnish design to Stockholm Design Week 2.–8.2.2015. The winner of the Kaj Franck Design Prize 2014, designer Harri Koskinen will show his works in the Finnish Institute in Stockholm. Just around the corner is WE LIVE HERE, an exhibition and event space presenting Finnish and Icelandic contemporary design.    

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• 21.1.2015

  Finnish top design at Stockholm Design Week

  The Kaj Franck Design Prize is one of the most eminent design prizes in Finland. In 2014 it was given to designer Harri Koskinen. The prize is awarded by Design Forum Finland, now for the 23rd time. The prize exhibition will be on show at the Finnish Institute in Stockholm, Snickarbacken 4, 3.-7.2.2015.

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• 20.1.2015

  WE LIVE HERE at Stockholm Design Week

  Icelandic and Finnish designers join forces and “move in together” in an apartment in central Stockholm for Stockholm Design Week 2015. The address is Regeringsgatan 86.

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• 13.11.2014

  Kaj Franck Design Prize 2014: designer Harri Koskinen

  The Kaj Franck Design Prize of 2014 awarded by Design Forum Finland has been given to designer Harri Koskinen. The prize is one of the most eminent design prizes in Finland and was now awarded for the 23rd time.

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• 27.10.2014

  Licht und Schatten

  Light and shadows – Licht und Schatten
  

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• 30.9.2014

  Finnish design at Frankfurt Book Fair

  Finland is the Guest of Honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair this October. Design Forum Finland will produce design-themed programming for the Finnish pavilion at the fair.

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• 28.8.2014

  Young Designer of the Year 2014: Minna Parikka

  Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year Prize of 2014 goes to footwear designer Minna Parikka (born 1980).

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• 9.6.2014

  Mikko Laakkonen 10+

  The Furniture Designer of the Year 2014
  

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• 28.2.2014

  Finnish Design Yearbook 2014–15  published

  The latest in Finnish design in one book. The collection was curated by journalist Liisa Jokinen.

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• 30.1.2014

  Design makes a difference

  30 % less need for fuel. 430,000 kg fewer CO₂ emissions in manufacturing. 90% less packaging waste. Half of the conventional need for raw materials. 34 patents or patent applications. An estimated 18 lives saved. A million lines of code.

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• 27.1.2014

  Young designers in Stockholm

  Design Forum Finland awards annually the Young Designer of the Year prize to interesting and promising young Finnish designers. The awarded designers of 2013, Mari Isopahkala (b. 1978) and Iina Vuorivirta (b. 1988) will be on show in Stockholm, in the Svarta Lådan window gallery on Götgatan 28 January – 24 February 2014.

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• 14.11.2013

  Kaj Franck Design Prize 2013: jewellery artist Björn Weckström

  The Kaj Franck Design Prize of 2013 awarded by Design Forum Finland has been given to professor, jewellery artist and sculptor Björn Weckström. The prize is one of the most eminent design prizes in Finland and was now awarded for the 22nd time.

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• 4.10.2013

  Fennia Prize 2012 to South Korea

  The best Finnish design on show at Design Korea 2013 in October

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• 24.9.2013

  Enduring Beauty

  Sustainable design from Finland
  

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• 4.9.2013

  Awarded design at Habitare

  The Young Designers of 2013 and the Kaj Franck Design Prize winner of 2012 on show at Habitare

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• 7.8.2013

  Fennia Prize 2014 has started

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• 30.5.2013

  Young Designer of the Year Prize 2013: Mari Isopahkala and Iina Vuorivirta

  Design Forum Finland's Young Designer of the Year Prize of 2013 goes to designers Mari Isopahkala (born 1978) and Iina Vuorivirta (born 1988). The Young Designer of the Year Prize was instituted in 2000 and is now being awarded for the twelfth time.

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• 11.4.2013

  Fennia Prize 2012 design prize exhibition to Paris

  The best Finnish industrial design on show at Cité des Sciences in Paris 18 April -1 September 2013

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• 27.2.2013

  Finnish fashion and design in Iceland in March

  Design Forum Finland will visit the DesignMarch event in Reykjavik 14–17 March with a design popup shop.

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