Japanese Design Workshop

Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulun muotoilun tutkinto-ohjelmaan saapui maaliskuun alussa 2016 vieraileva professori Kiotosta pitämään opiskelijoille suunnittelu-workshopin. Takaaki Oe on tuotemuotoilija, joka opettaa Kioton taiteen ja suunnittelun yliopistossa. Workshop oli jaettu kolmeen eri tehtävään. Osa opiskelijoista osallistui vain ensimmäisen suunnittelutehtävän tekemiseen. Osa opiskelijoista puolestaan suoritti koko workshopin tehden kolme suunnittelutehtävää. Suunnittelutehtävät kestivät kukin kaksi tai kolme päivää. Japanilaisessa … Read more

Towards Stockholm

Design students are participating first time to the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair at 9. – 13.2.2016. The video presents the process of designing and building up the fair stand and furniture.   Students Venla Anttila, Sini Mäkinen and Laura Lerkkanen. Alumni Olli Mustikainen and Mikko Siponen. Video: Sini Mäkinen

Towards Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

Mikko Siposen ottama kuva

Design students are participating first time to the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair at 9. – 13.2.2016. The fair is the world´s largest meeting place for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design. At the Metropolias fair stand there will be presented furniture and products by design students. Students visited at Nuutajärvi Glass Village on January to … Read more

Textile design students on view in Heimtextil fair 2016

We are two textile design students at Metropolia University of applied Sciences. We are doing an “international project”-course independently, which entails us designing and manufacturing a piece of furniture for the Heimtextil -fair in Frankfurt, Germany (12.-15.01.2016). Heimtextil is the biggest international textile fair. People have been gathering there for more than 40 years. The … Read more

Students are suggesting bicycle center to a storehouse in Helsinki

Design students of Metropolia are suggesting that old storehouse ruins in Töölönlahti, Helsinki center  would be altered to a bicycle center.  Students´ idea was born in co-operation with Helsinki city in a project where student get to know urban planning. The old sturehouse that was build in 1889 and used to belong to Finnish State Railways was destroyed mostly by fire … Read more

Textile design students are attending Budapest Design Week with “Dialogue” exhibition

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences have arranged a joint exhibition called Dialogue in Budapest. The exhibition is held from 26 September to 4 October 2015 in MONO art & design- gallery. The exhibition presents knitwear designs of textile design students from the two universities as … Read more