New Party in Stockholm, February 9-13th

Design students of Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences were asked to think of surprising and fresh ideas with the theme ‘New Party’. The fruits of the brainstorm will be gathered into a laid back compilation at Greenhouse Stand VH01:22 on 9-13 February 2016. Come and meet us to enjoy the party together! The works … 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

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

Ready15 – Designing a Narrative Textile Design Collection for Vanja Sea

Textile Design thesiswork, Tiina Taivainen Narrative Pattern – Designing a Narrative Textile Design Collection for Vanja Sea In my thesis I researched the role of the meanings and stories that children give to print design. As an output I designed for Vanja Sea brand a collection of three prints for kids that can be digitally … Read more

Ready15 Exhibition on Helsinki Design Week

The Ready15 exhibition consists of Metropolia design theses from spring 2015. The exhibition is part of the L3 Design Dock event that is held 9.-13.9. The event is open to design professionals on Wednesday and Thursday and to the general public from Friday to Sunday. Free admission for professionals (registration required), other €15/5 (three-day-pass) and €10/5 … Read more

International Design field

CEO of the Helsinki Design Week, Kari Korkman, had a lecture to design students at 12.3.2015 about interactive internationalization. Lectures about the International Design field was: 5.2. 2015 Sauli Laitinen – International UX-design 12.2.2015 Esa Vesmanen – How to separate oneself at the international operational environment 26.2.2015 Rosa Piironen – Small business export and operations … Read more