Best Design Events: What to Expect From Helsinki Design Week 2018

Best Design Events: What to Expect From Helsinki Design Week 2018 ⇒ Founded in 2005, the Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in Scandinavia (Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark). Held annually in September, this multidisciplinary festival presents design from a number of fields as well as fashion, architecture and urban culture. The next Helsinki Design Week will be held between the 6th and the 16th of September in several locations around the city and CovetED Magazine invites you to know all you can expect from it.

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Helsinki Design Week presents the new faces and phenomena of design, promotes design internationally in collaboration with various partners and offers city citizens through design a forum to participate in developing and discussing the city and its culture. The festival programme contains around 250 events every year and includes both events targeted for professionals and the general public.

In 2017, this Design Week boasted about 161,000 visitors. It’s expected that the 2018 Edition will reach the 200,000 visitors mark! The Helsinki Design Week is produced by the design service agency Luovi Productions Oy that was founded in 1995 by Kari Korkman, and it began with producing products such as bags and laptop cases. Helsinki Design Week has its origins in 2001 when Luovi was launching a new collection of bags in an exhibition called DesignPartners01.

From the 1st Edition in 2001 till now many things have changed and this festival is bigger than ever. A great party filled with design and elegance is in the making that will include events like The Children’s Weekend or the incredible PechaKucha Nights! So don’t miss this event!

The HDW Children’s Design Week takes over the Helsinki City Museum where is plenty to do for the family’s little ones for a whole week. Children can experience design and architecture in different workshops. At the City Hall, children reflect on how urban people promote different lifestyles in urban communities. Through phenomenal learning, they also get into the history of school meals and especially the future.

The high point of HDW Children’s Design Week is the Children’s Weekend family event organized at Kattilahalli in Suvilahti on 15 and 16 September.

During the weekend, Kattilahalli turns into a Magic Forest created by illustrator Leena Kisonen, which allows adventures in various workshops with different animals.

In addition to workshops, Finnish and international kids’ clothing brands have their collections on sale at the Little Market.

The Little Market sales event is organized for the fifth time as part of the Children’s Weekend. In this event, Finnish and international kids’ clothing brands sell their new autumn collections. VIMMA’s new #bebrave prints will be available to see and buy for the first time at the Little Market.

The new Helsinki Design Awards brings together the most skilled designers in Finland and the companies that honour their design to recognize them. The most important design event of the year will take place on 12 September at Clarion Hotel Helsinki, and the awards will be given in five different categories: Product of the Year, Internationalization, Promise, Jury’s Pick and Lifework.

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The HDW HOP series will introduce the installations that will make the center of Helsinki even more lively during Helsinki Design Week, 6‒16 September 2018.

YRJÖ KUKKAPURO EXPERIMENT, SHOWING DURING HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK, IS A COLLECTION OF RARE PROTOTYPES

Professor Yrjö Kukkapuro is one of the most distinguished furniture designers of our time. The 84-year-old’s work is akin to graphic art being turned into ergonomic and functional furniture. His career spans 60 years and he is still a creative force within design.

Gallery Lemmetti is proud to present Yrjö Kukkapuro Experiment, a collection of rare prototypes made by the designer himself, dating as far back as the 1960s and including his latest work. Kukkapuro will give a lecture during the exhibition, and also be present in the gallery most of the days.

The distinguished Finnish designer was born in Wyborg, Finland in 1933. Initially, he dreamt of becoming a painter. In 1956 however, he began studying furniture design at the Institute of Applied Arts in Helsinki. In 1959 he started his own workshop, where he mainly designed functional furniture. His famous chair “Karuselli” from 1964 is based on an impression of the designer in the snow. The arm chair is equipped with a rocking and turning mechanism. The seating shell is made of fibreglass-reinforced plastic and is covered with leather.

The HDW HOP series will introduce the installations that will make the center of Helsinki even more lively during Helsinki Design Week, 6‒16 September 2018.

ART OF CARVING IS ALL ABOUT SHAPING A REALM OF DIVERSE POSSIBILITIES