Demoday 2023 is an event for the Design, Conservation, Film and Television, Live Performance Engineering and Clothing degree programs of the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, which will be held at the Arabia Campus on Thursday, May 11, 2023. At the event, students present their projects, such as animations, games and short films, graphic and… Continue reading Welcome to the Demoday event 11.5.2023 – the 2023 program is published!
Category: Industrial design
Ready21 Thesis Exhibition
Welcome to the virtual Ready21 thesis exhibition @metropolia_muotoilu on your Instagram account. We present students ’theses twice a week: on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The first thesis will be published on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The first part of the exhibition presents the work of students who graduated in May. The exhibition will continue during Helsinki… Continue reading Ready21 Thesis Exhibition
Utilizing VR tools in design process
Industrial design student Joonas Sillanpää made his thesis work about utilizing VR tools in design process. In thesis he investigate the use of VR tools in the design process. The work was commissioned by Metropolia UAS under a Finnish Design Academy project. He implemented three different product concepts using VR tools as part of the concept design work. Also… Continue reading Utilizing VR tools in design process
Students’ lights at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2020
Lights of students of industrial design and textile design from Metropolias degree programme in design were exhibited in the international Furniture fair in Stockholm. The stand of our design students’ products was located in the Greenhouse area, which is a specific, juried area in the annual Furniture & Light Fair for young designers and the schools… Continue reading Students’ lights at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2020
Varjo and Tynnyri at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2020
Industrial design student Onni-Vilhelm Ojanen presents his designs Varjo and Tynnyri at Greenhouse in Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2020. Greenhouse is popular section at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair where up-and-coming designers and design schools show their prototypes to future partners, producers and customers. VARJO (shade) is pendant light where plant acts as the lamp… Continue reading Varjo and Tynnyri at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2020
Metropolia at Habitare 2019
Metropolia’s design students’ works are visible at Habitare Design Fair 2019. Metropolia has an own stand at the Block area, where you can explore furniture designed by our students, and a VR model with different interior decorations of the new education spaces for XR Design students. At Protoshop exhibition you can see two lighting products made… Continue reading Metropolia at Habitare 2019
Designing in extended reality
Virtual reality, extended reality, VR, AR, XR. The beloved child has many names. Virtual reality is a way to visualize pieces as they were real, right in front of viewers eyes. Currently there are plenty of different tools to present virtual reality on the market. These gadgets can be divided on four main… Continue reading Designing in extended reality
DIMENSIO – New dimensions of ceramics / Helsinki Design Week 2019
During Helsinki Design Week 2019 at Erottaja2 there is an exhibition presenting the collaboration project of Metropolia’s design students and ABL tiles. Dimensio exhibition is part of a big exhibition entirety that covers up the whole building, so we recommend to be prepared with a couple of hours, comfortable shoes and an open mind!… Continue reading DIMENSIO – New dimensions of ceramics / Helsinki Design Week 2019
Japanese Workshop
In the end of August, 22.-24.8.2019, a group of students and professors from Musashino Art University visited Metropolia UAS. The visitors held a three-day Japanese Workshop, where Japanese and Finnish students designed and made dessert plates out of very thin wood. Besides the workshop, the group went for a long walk to explore the surroundings of the… Continue reading Japanese Workshop
Extra summer tip: ORNO – Light and shape exhibition
ORNO – Light and shape -lighting exhibition at Art and Museum Centre Sinkka in Kerava presents Orno’s famous design lighting as well as lighting prototypes by young designers from Aalto University. Two alumnis of Metropolia, Saara Ollila and Simo Lahtinen, have their lighting prototypes at the exhibition. The balance between classic, well-known lamps and new, more… Continue reading Extra summer tip: ORNO – Light and shape exhibition