Everyday Discoveries – International Design House Exhibition

“Everyday Discoveries” is a unique mini-world design exhibition, where more than 20 countries showcase their design, ideas and concepts as well as organise a number of different events. The free-of-charge exhibition organized in Suvilahti, Helsinki, is taking place both indoors and outdoors. The site is housing a container village, café, design shop and urban garden,…

Helsinki in September

September is always a hectic month in the design field and I have been a little slow with this but here it finally is, my calendar for September:World Design Capital Helsinki 2012’s main exhibition, Everyday Discoveries – InternationalDesign H…

HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK 2012

Starting tomorrow, Helsinki Design Week is holding a series of events across the city. Over the next ten days, visitors will be treated to exhibitions, shopping opportunities, openings and much more. The programme includes design, fashion, music, seminars and visits to spaces normally closed to the public. During the design week, Deko is participating in the Design…

Helsinki in August

It seems there are always so many exhibitions and things happening in Helsinki, that it becomes hard to remember everything. I decided to start a monthly calendar of design events for me and you to remember. Here is what’s going on in August:Tomás Sar…

Secrets of Russia

This you must see if you haven’t already! Aamu Song and Johan Olin have been travelling in Russia and  collaborated with six traditional Russian manufacturers in order to create a series of new products. The products are displayed as par…

GLOBAL NORDIC DESIGN 2012

The Global Nordic Design 2012 exhibition features the work of five Nordic designers and design groups showcasing their fashion, furniture, lighting and glass designs. The exhibition introduces works by the following designers: Steinunn Sigurdardottir (Iceland), Harri Koskinen (Finland), Henrik Vibskov (Denmark) and the designer teams Norway Says (Norway) and Front (Sweden). Over the past five years all of…

DESIGN HELPS – LIVING ROOM

Design Helps Living Room, organized by Tikau Share is a Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 event, which demonstrates and generates ideas relating to well-being that design can bring about. Living Room functions as a meeting place for everyone who is interested in design that helps. Apart from various events taking place at the venue, Living Room is enlivened…

Workroom

Workroom is an art exhibition of my talented brother. It is not the usual kind of exhibition where paintings hang on the walls but more like a visit to many houses. There are small houses on the walls and a playhouse-size house standing on the gallery …