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Gustavsberg’s brand new collection Coloric is unique as it is the first aluminium mixer collection ever on the market. Elegant design, cool colours and environmental friendliness are all combined in Coloric. The Coloric mixers are made of coloured aluminium without lead and can therefore be recycled. The Coloric taps are also equipped with water saving technique. On this picture you can see Coloric red washbasin mixer.

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Marimekko fabric Bo boo
Designed by Katsuji Wakisaka (1975)

IVANAhelsinki is an exclusive art fashion brand. It brings delicately together Slavic rough melancholity and pure Scandinavian moods.

Paola Ivana Suhonen is the artist behind the fashion pieces, starting from her dark naive mind-landscapes, northern legends and western romantics, doing prints, graphics, shortmovies and well, everything that is involved with the visuals. She runs the family-owned company with her older sister Pirjo. Every single IVANAhelsinki piece is ateljee manufactured in Finland. The whole production philosophy is based on ethical and ecological choises. There are a lot of handmade details and traditional Finnish handcraft methods are featured.

“IVANAhelsinki started as my personal art-project, now it’s a way of living to us. I could easily spend my life travelling around and go to my road trips, but it is pretty much ok to do cute, straight cotton and woollen dresses for charismatic drummer girls and girl women. They are the ones who love moonlight fields, pirates, dark forests, crummy motels, champagne state of drunkness, fragile butterflies, unstable relationships, cowboys and guardian angels. After all, I’m sure they are just after a love of their lives, just waiting to see, will he be a rockstar, a motor biker, a gnome, a cosmonaut or a sailor.”

Paola Ivana Suhonen is a Helsinki born designer and artist. Her most well known for her own art fashion brand IVANAhelsinki which has in 10 years grown to an international art brand. The essential part of IVANAhelsinki is the design clothing line. Paola Ivana has been in charge for the design and art management of this line ever since 1998 when it was established. Paola Ivana has done several alternative projects where fashion, design and modern art have been combined. “I am not fixated with certain materials just the opposite; different materials are ways and means for me to express my own, inner world. The pieces I have created are souvenirs of my soul world.

In addition to her own personal design and art projects, Paola Ivana Suhonen has done product development, graphical and concept designing for example for Head Snowboards, HP Sauce, Google, Swarovski, Coca-Cola, Canon, Amnesty International and Mori Art Center in Tokyo just to mention a few. She has designed “Saimaa” dish serie for Finnish traditional porcelain company Kermansavi and “Guardian Dog” jewellery for Kaipaus. Paola Ivana Suhonen has graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki from the fashion and textile design department. Today she teaches in that very same university. In fall 2008 Paola will move to New York for a year to be more involved with her great love, the movie making.

Link: IVANAhelsinki

Gustavsberg has added a photo to the pool:

Gustavsberg’s brand new collection Coloric is unique as it is the first aluminium mixer collection ever on the market. Elegant design, cool colours and environmental friendliness are all combined in Coloric. The Coloric mixers are made of coloured aluminium without lead and can therefore be recycled. The Coloric taps are also equipped with water saving technique.

IVANAhelsinki was chosen together with six European fashion brands to create design for new Coca Cola Light packages.The campaign Flight for Fashion are Bambi by Laura from Barcelona, Spain, Baum und Pferdgarted from Copenhagen, Denmark, Normaluisa from Milan, Italy, Miriam Ocariz from Madrid, Spain and Snooz from Berlin, Germany.

The cans and the campaign launched in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg in the beginning of May. The special cans will be sold only in involved countries.

Link: IVANAhelsinki

Exlusive tablelamp in black glossy lacquer and Black/gold lampshade. Lampfot is made in baroque style, the lamp gives a very worm soft light.

Mr Di is the large table lamp, and then you can also buy Mrs Di that is the smaller version.

Designer: Markus Hällstrand & Michael Carlsson
Brand: Eli Gnosjö

Via Pid.se

HARDCORE exhibition is organized by Design Forum Finland, the Consulate General of Finland in New York and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, and presented in collaboration with the Meatpacking District Initiative and Abe NYC, Inc. HARDCORE is supported by Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Digital Society, the Greater Helsinki Promotion, Finlandia Vodka, the Finnish Tourist Board, Genelec, IcelandAir, Helsinki City Tourist and Convention Bureau, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Ministry of Education in Finland, and The National Council for Design.
New York Magazine is the official media sponsor
www.hardcoredesign.net

“Hardcore is used to refer to an extreme dedication to a specific activity or to something more intense than the regular mainstream. It can also be understood as the most authentic part or the essential core of something. As such, it can be used to characterize Finnish design.”
– Curator, Ilkka suppanen

The exhibition showcases projects by
Noa Bembibre
Fokus Fabrik
Jaana and Päivi Haaksiluoto
Kokoro & Moi
koneHelsinki
Harri Koskinen
Yrjö Kukkapuro and Henrik Enbom
Janne Kyttänen
Hannu Kähönen
Mikko Laakkonen
Kristiina Lassus
Arihiro Miyake
Mikko Paakkanen
Pentagon Design
Provoke Design
Anne Kyyrö Quinn
Anna Ruohonen
Stepan Sarpaneva
Tonfisk Design
HARDCORE lounge is hosted by major Finnish design companies Iittala, Artek and Marimekko

Hardcore new finnish design
may 17–19, 2008
413–415 West 14th Street,
New York, NY 10014
(Between 9th Ave and Washington St)
Hours Saturday, May 17 12–5 pm, Sunday, May 18 12–8 pm, Monday, May 19 12–6 pm

Birmingham 05 May 2008 Autoadapt already occupies a leading position in the rapidly growing market for adaptation of automobiles for the elderly and people with physical disabilities from their head office in West Sweden. Now, Autoadapt is reinforcing its product base, its distribution network and technical knowledge base through the acquisition of operations in Finish Turvax Oy.

”Autoadapt and Turvax will collaborate on several development projects. This is a very exciting time, and both companies are looking forward to creating new solutions that can help people with physical disabilities to drive cars,” concludes Peter Wahlsten, Managing Director of Autoadapts U.K.

During the past decade, Autoadapt has grown to be Europe’s largest supplier for “Adaptation of vehicles to the needs of the elderly and disabled”. Today, approximately 90% of production is exported to more than a hundred dealers in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and the South Pacific.

To learn more visit www.autoadapt.co.uk

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Pursuing a Degree in Fashion Designing It’s easier to get into the fashion industry if you have a fashion design degree. Fashion design is a wonderful and exciting job.

There are many famous fashion designers around the world, such as Giorgio Armani, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren. You can also be a famous fashion designer if you dedicate yourself to your craft.

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Hi all lovers of Nordic Design! Personal manager of Eero Aarnio just dropped me a short note that first Eero Aarnio web shop is open. It is a very remarkable move, I rushed to visit their store and was pleased to see Eero greeting visitors of their brand new shop.

There is a lot of stuff to observe, take your time, I was impressed by The Tree, personally.

Here the link: designeeroarnio.com