Year: 2010 School: TaiK

I participated on a workshop, that focused on using the generative visualisation software NodeBox 2 in typographic design. The assignment was to create an A1 typographic poster around the theme “A Social Type”. My approach on the concept, was names. The poster shows circa 7000 of the most common surnames in Finland in alphabetical order. The size and color saturation of each name varies according to their prevalence, bringing the most common names up from the pattern of rarer names. A task that would have been insanely tedious to do by hand. Take a closer look.

Year: 2009 Employer: Kairo Graphics Oy Client: City of Helsinki

The City of Helsinki commissioned a web page from Kairo to celebrate and review the 20 years of urban developement of The Vuosaari district, in eastern Helsinki. My part of the work was to illustrate the map used as the interface for navigating through the history of the developement, and the icons for each introduced project.

Year: 2009 School: TaiK

76×42cm “Damn Right!” and 30×38cm “Sailors On Shoreleave” posters done during a silkscreen printing course in TaiK.

Year: 2009 Client: TaiK School: TaiK

MoA09, the annual Masters of Arts graduation exhibtion of University of Art and Design Helsinki, TaiK featured over 80 new masters with their degree works and two weeks full of happenings, seminars and a petcha kucha.

As usual, the festival identity was commisioned from the students in the School of Graphic Design. So together with Tuija Tarkiainen we designed the identity “polyphonic harmony” and all the printed matter including e.g. the catalogue of all masters, MoA branded Arttu! magazine, exhibition map/programme leaflet, invitations, adverticements, posters, wayfinding signs and other graphics in the space. The excellent exhibtion architecture was designed by Viivi Laine and Kaisa Takala from the School of Spatial and Furniture Design.

For The Arttu! magazine I also drew a one page “making of” cartoon of the circa 6 months process, that made the whole exhibition possible.

Year: 2009 Employer: Kairo Graphics Oy Client: Palma

The brilliant poprock band Palma released their debut album Be Bold And Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid in March 2009. When I was asked to do the cover design I was so inspired by their music, that the covers grew from originally planned simple leaflet with band info and greetings to an 28-page booklet with an illustrated spread for each song. The band logo is made by Viljo Malmberg.

Year: 2009 Employer: Kairo Graphics Oy Client: Oy Forcit Ab

Forcit Explosives is the leading producer of industrial explosives in Finland and it’s catalogue serves for more than only selling their products. It’s used in the construction yards for reference, as teaching material in education of chargers as well as by the police for identifying found explosives. While updating the outdated catalogue, we also focused on making it more usable, clearly illustrated and durable in the harsh working conditions it is used.

Year: 2008 School: TaiK

A book design course assignment was to create a outlook of book series for a definite target group about a subject close to you. I designed a series of covers for Finnish translations of classic Sci-fi novels targeted to teenagers.

Year: 2008 School: TaiK

Posters done during information design workshop in TaiK

A Battle In The Margins: The assignment was to study the 2008 U.S. presidental elections, and my approach was to find out what happened to the 1% of all popular votes that were casted to other than the two main candidates. Resulting an map of the division of the non-major party popular votes per state, and a presentation of the speculative electoral college of the non-major party candidates. But how did it go?. Well if both Obama and McCain would have been disqualified, Ralph Nader would be the presidet of the United States!

The Most Fantabulous Magic Tricks: Another assignment was to design a 50×70 poster illustrating some action that is familiar to you, so I choose a topic near to my heart: cheap tricks.

Year: 2007

As a result of an unsuccessful attempt to find a calendar that would fit my needs, I started to reflect the way I personally use a calendar and conceive the course of time. I searched for new ways to make best use of the calendar as well as different ways to illustrate the flow of the day, week, month and the whole year. As a result of these reflections I designed a personal, hand bound calendar which shows for example the circulation of the year, sunrises and sunsets. In addition for every week there is space for notes and a dot grid for sketching fonts and such.

Year: 2007 Employer: Kairo Graphics Oy Client: Golfpiste.com, Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet

The design and layout of the first issue for The Finnish edition of the world’s largest golf magazine Golf Didest. The brief was to get rid of the mother publications – in European eyes lightly awkward looking – american styled layout and update it to more modern, spacious and european style magazine better suitable for Finnish audience. The content consists of partly Finnish, partly international and American stories.

Year: 2006 Client: Lauri Louekari

Long and numerous side notes and 1/4 colour printing made the layout Architect Lauri Louekari’s doctoral thesis “Architecture Of The Forrest” a tricky but interesting task. As a solution I based the layout on an flexible 4 column grid, that enabled the side notes to to run along with the text they referred to by invading the space of the text block.

Year: 2005 Client: Artists’ Association of Finland

The visual identity for Nuoret 2006 collective exhibition for young artists done in collaboration with Sanna Kaitakari. The identity included a poster, invitation and exhibition catalogue, with a sprout for every artist.

Year: 2005

I have always loved the old fruit wages you seldom see anymore, the ones with a small painted picture for each product. This is a hand sewn, hand painted tribute to the days before hypermarket efficiency.