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Design Finland: Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize to Julia Lundsten and Janne Kyttänen
Our friendly Finnish blog Design Finland posted recently an article about winners of Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize. They are Shoe designer Julia Lundsten and designer Janne Kyttänen.
Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 is very influenting and remarkable in Finland, and we congratulate the winners!
From Design Finland:
The awarded designers have both received their design training abroad – Julia Lundsten in London and Janne Kyttänen in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Lundsten established her shoe-design company FINSK in London, and Kyttänen the Freedom of Creation company in Amsterdam. Based on the designers’ strong personal conception of design and intelligent insight into design and methods of manufacturing, these companies display international promise in both content and business skills.
Read the rest of article on Design Finland
Designboost is a novel concept at the Swedish design arena with its combination of workshops, lectures and exhibitions. The theme for 2007 is sustainable design and it will be discussed and questioned by the 25 speakers at the lecture date Thursday October 18. Today we release the names of the last 10 speakers.
Quite often only the environmental issues are brought forward in the discussion about sustainable design. At this years Designboost event we would like to broaden the view. We think it is important to turn things upside down. Sometimes left is actually right, says David Carlson, one of the founders behind Designboost.
We believe in knowledge exchange. The more you give, the more you get. Our goal is that Designboost will be characterised by new insight, new thoughts and preferably laughter, or as we put it; right, aha, haha, says Peer Eriksson, one of the Designboost founders.
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Megapolis2022 festival is going to be opened in Vanha ylioppilastalo in the heart of Helsinki, Saturday 13.10. This time the main subject of this event particularly about consumption. People guing to discuss global environmental
issues, about the role of consumer and urban development. For a day Vanha ylioppilastalo will be filled with
seminars, urban art installations and documentaries.
“Whatever the choices we make on a daily basis have a big cumulative effect,
either negative or positive. While mass consumerism still dominates, new
trends with quality products and experiences and different values are
developing and growing. How will the new urban consumerism change the world?”
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Talent on www.talicious.com
Originally uploaded by talicious dot com.
TALICIOUS is a talent community website that allows talented people to share their talents, communicate with other interesting people and be discovered by scouts or agencies who can easily search the site.
TALICIOUS was born out of the idea to give talented people the chance to show the world their talents and if they want to, be discovered. We have tried to make this as easy as possible; both for the talents to upload their profile and for their friends, family and people with the same interest as well as scouts to find them.
Basically, TALICIOUS is a community for talented people and those that work with them.
Link: TALICIOUS
Home Rejuvenation
Stan from Home Rejuvenation Blog informed me today that they are conducting a survey to find out who the 10 influential bloggers (blogs) in our design community are. The purpose is to find out the best in design blogging.
They wrote:
Let’s face it - there are too many design bloggers out there, each with their own distinctive style and voice. But we never know who, in most bloggers’ and readers’ hearts, the movers and shakers of the design blogging world are. Simply because nobody has ever bothered about finding out?
You can read more about this initiative on their blog: Home Rejuvenation
Or you can vote directly by this email.
Electrolux Design Lab is one of well known and most influential competitions in design society. The annual competition is held already fifth time and now they annonces the 8 finalists for Design Lab 2007.
Hundreds of design students from around the world entered this year’s competition and were present their ideas for eco-friendly and sustainable household appliances and solutions for 2020. The final eight contestants have been invited to attend the final judging event and award ceremony, which will take place on November 28, 2007 in Paris. The winner of Electrolux Design Lab 2007 recieves a First Prize of 5,000 Euro and a six-month internship at one of global design centers of Electrolux.
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Design Market is a design flea market organised by Mirikaapelihalli, one of divisions of Kaapelitehdas (Cable Factory Centre) in Helsinki, where you can find valuable design items. Various old and new brands are present there: Aarikka, Forme, Iittala, Lumi Accessories, Secto, Verso, TUNTO.
Hurry up, this event is going today till 17:00.
Kaapelitehdas - Uutiset
HEL LOOKS | St. Petersburg Exhibition
We wrote already about Hel Looks, and now good news to my hometown’s lovers of street fashion- they showing their images on exhibition in St. Petersburg during September and October 10!
St. Petersburg exhibition
The Atrium Hall of the Peter and Paul Fortress
from September 12 to October 10, 2007
Open daily, closed on Wednesdays
Free entry
More information: Liisa / HEL LOOKS
twentytwentyone
twentytwentyone are honoured to
launch Bags of Goodwill, an exhibition
and auction to raise awareness and
funds for the Fairtrade Foundation.
Bags of Goodwill will show one-off
creations by 40 world-renowned
designers during the London Design
Festival 19-25 September 2007.
To be held at our River Street, EC1
showroom and published online.
You will have the chance to bid for
these highly collectible one-off bags
in person at the exhibition or by email
via the twentytwentyone website
before midnight on 25 September 2007.
The highest bidder for each unique
Bag of Goodwill will be contacted
at the close of the exhibition, with
all monies pledged going to the
Fairtrade Foundation.
Exhibition preview at
www.twentytwentyone.com
