PROGRAMME

Exhibition open October 29–November 7, 2010

every day 10:30–19:00

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

14:00–14:30
Meet the Curators (Ozone Plaza, 3F)
Designers Harri Koskinen and Ilkka Suppanen tell about the process of creating Hirameki Design × Finland exhibition.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

14:00–14:20
Meet the Designers: Jani Martikainen, Majamoo
(Ozone Plaza, 3F).
Majamoo, producing tableware and accessories for everyday use, has developed unique technology that enables the manufacture of compressed cylindrical goods in plywood. This technology has resulted in completely seamless, durable products.

17:00–17:30
Meet the Curators (Ozone Plaza, 3F)

18:00–20:30
Aalto University Fashion Show (Atrium 1F, by invitation only)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31

14:00–14:30
Meet the Curators (Ozone Plaza, 3F)

17:00–17:20
Meet the Designers: Tuula Pöyhönen, Onni (Ozone Plaza, 3F) Fashion designer Tuula Pöyhönen is the founder of the ONNI brand and home decoration shop. The Onni Homeshop Concept enables its creator to work multidisciplinary - as a designer, producer, shopkeeper, as well as a mother.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

17:00–19:00
PechaKucha Night (Atrium 1F)
Ten presentations about sustainability by designers.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

14:00–14:20
Meet the Designers: Kristiina Lassus (Ozone Plaza, 3F)
Kristiina Lassus is an internationally acclaimed designer and design manager. Her clientele includes Alessi, Zanotta and Poltronova.

16:00–16:20

Meet the Designers: Samuli Naamanka (Ozone Plaza, 3F)

Samuli Naamanka is known for product design, environmental design and interior design. He also specializes in material innovations like Graphic Concrete. His latest work is a tableware set made of wood composite, a Finnish innovation, which will be launched with Plastex Design in Hirameki Design x Finland exhibition.

17:00–17:20
Meet the Designers: Hannu Kähönen & Annele Valkama, Credesign (Ozone Plaza, 3F)
Creadesign is a Helsinki-based design agency. Its key members are the founder and CEO, industrial designer and artist professor Hannu Kähönen, and clothing designer Annele Valkama.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6

14:00–14:20
Meet the Designers: Eero Hintsanen & Chao-Hsien Kuo, Chao & Eero Jewel (Ozone Plaza, 3F) Chao & Eero Jewel is an independent Finnish jewellery design brand created in 2005 by a husband and wife team, Eero Hintsanen and Chao-Hsien Kuo. Through the jewellery they tell stories which reflect the beautiful Finnish nature, and also the fast paced urban culture.

17:00–17:20
Meet the Designers: Aika Urata, Aika Felt Works (Ozone Plaza, 3F)
Born in Osaka, designer Aika Urata now lives and works in Rovaniemi, Lapland. In 2005 she set up Aika Felt Works, and uses the traditional Finnish material, wool felt.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7

14:00–14:20
Meet the Designers: Ritva-Liisa Pohjalainen, RLP Design (Ozone Plaza, 3F)
RLP Design is a Finnish design company whose main products are collections of glass, ceramics and Corian objects as well as jewellery and clothing designed by Ritva-Liisa Pohjalainen.

17:00–17:20
Meet the Designers: Nathalie Lahdenmäki and Naoto Niidome (Ozone Plaza, 3F) Finnish-French ceramist and designer Nathalie Lahdenmäki and Finnish- Japanese designer Naoto Niidome were awarded the Young Designer of the Year 2008 by Design Forum Finland.

19:00
Exhibition closes

Meet the Curators, Meet the Designers:
Sign in 15 minutes before the event at the Hirameki Design × Finland info desk (Atrium 1F).
Maximum 40 persons/group

PechaKucha night:
Sign in 15 minutes before the event at the Hirameki Design × Finland info desk (Atrium 1F). Maximum 100 persons.

Design Forum Showroom at HIRAMEKI Design x Finland: Design Forum Shop in the heart of Design District in Helsinki, Finland, offers a wide and continuously updated selection of Finnish design, from new releases to classics and from industrial design to small editions and unique pieces. At HIRAMEKI Design x Finland a selected collection is presented in the Design Forum Showroom at Atrium (1F). The Design Forum Showroom is produced in co-operation with Nord Mainos Corporation. Opening hours: 10:30-19.00, during HIRAMEKI Design x Finland exhibition For more information : www.designforumshop.fi