About

about

Helsinki Design Week is an annual city festival which purpose is to attune and introduce people to new design. Operating through various media, collaborations and events, we invite design devotees to new experiences, encounters and idea exchange. The program includes an array of events including workshops, exhibitions, fashion shows, festivities, seminars, visits to studios and closed-for-public spaces as well as shopping opportunities.

Founded in 2005, Helsinki Design Week's focus lies on multi-disciplinary take on design and bringing it closer to people. We believe that design should be open for interaction, opinions and touch.Currently in the process of expanding both in terms of geography and time, we work closely with City of Helsinki, Nordic Fashion Association and other European cities and design organisations.

Contacts:

Kari Korkman / director

+358 40 548 3767

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Anni Puolakka / producer

+358 50 527 3123

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Karoliina Korhonen / producer (events at the Cable Factory)

+358 40 771 0193

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Art Director of HDW website Johannes Ekholm. Web design by Grok IT.

Contact

HELSINKI DESIGN WEEK OFFICE

Sepänkatu 19
FI-00150 Helsinki FINLAND
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+358 9 628 082
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News

SAARA LEPOKORPI WINNER IN A FASHION CONTEST IN COPENHAGEN 9.12.09

The winner of Nordic Fashion Association's (NFA) sustainable fashion competition is designer Saara Lepokorpi from Finland. The competition was organised under NFA's project Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) and Copenhagen Fashion Summit promoting responsible fashion. Helsinki Design Week is one of the five founding members of Nordic Fashion Association. The success of the Finnish team was completed by Anu Salonen, who was given an honorable mention.

HELSINKI MADRID FINDESIGN ONLINE

Helsinki Madrid FINDESIGN, the main exhibition for Finnish Design Month in Madrid, took place 4 November 2009 – 10 January 2010 at the Contemporary Art Center in Matadero. The exhibition was produced by Helsinki Design Week together with Huippu Design Management.

More information about the event can be found here:

www.myhelsinki.fi – Helsinki experiences of four Madrileños who have been working on the exhibition.

www.diseno.fi – information about the Finnish Design Month in Madrid.

Cultivate of Basso TV visited Helsinki Design Week

Basso TV's show about fashion, music arts, the night and Helsinki, Cultivate, visited Helsinki Design Week's opening of the Cable Nights 2009. See the show here.