Fashion & concept designer. Specialized in new concepts development with an
in-depth understanding of the manufacturing processes in the textile and clothing industry.
Enjoys the challenge of merging cutting edge design, brave branding and commercial reality.
2024
Bag design as part of the Pori Art Museum's workwear concept
2024
Xamk, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Fashion and costume design. Lectures on user understanding and fashion, style, branding
2024
Cultural Centre Vuosaari House, Ragamuf course
2023
Estonian Art Academy, lecturing and tutoring on collection building
2022-
Helsinki Adult Education Centre, craft teaching, Ragamuf courses
2022
Ragamuf workshop x2 Estonian Applied and Design Museum
2021
Mom x Son collection
2020-21
Bag developement and prototyping
2019-20
Ragamuf chair cover 2nd edition, Diyarbakir, Turkey
2017
Denim workwear for Helsinki University Think Corner
2014-
Entrepreneur - designer
2016
Ragamuf chair and sofa cover innovation and branding
2016
Anno, Finnish life style brand, Head designer
2010-14
Marimekko, in-house designer, women´s wear, kid´s wear, bags and accessories,
waste concept
2009-10
ONNI home shop and collection, founder and designer
2008-09
Advertising agencies Taivas and Sek&Grey, freelancer
2001-08
MASI Company - Lee Cooper jeans, Head designer
2008
ELLE Deco Japan, photo styling
2007
Camper, Helsinki-shoe with Studio Suppanen
2005-07
Fazer Oy, workwear design for Fazer and Amica restaurants, freelancer
2001-03
Nokia Oyj and Nokia UK Ltd wearability accessories, freelancer
2002
Image Publishing Oy, design magazine MUOTO, design articles
1997-2015
Aalto University, tutor and assessor for MA students
1997-2001
Skanno Oy, Head designer and buyer for furnitures, textiles, and home clothing
1999
L-Fashion Group Ltd/ Luhta Home, home textile and clothing collection, Head designer
L-Fashion Group Ltd/ Rukka, sportswear collection, designer
1995-97
Stockmann Ltd, Head designer of jeans and youth fashion
1994
Master of Arts, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Main studies
Fashion design, secondary Textile design and Design Leadership
2024
Mörkö & Pölkky, with Saara Renvall in Hietsun Paviljonki
2024
Vuotalo <3 ryijy, Vuotalo gallery
2023
CraftHub EU, Ragamuf chair rug touring seven countries
2021
Window installation with illustrator Edith Hammar, Helsinki Design Week
2018
Raaka/RAW group exhibition in Wabi-Sabi spirit, shoe experiments
2018
Fiskars Summer Home, linen textiles for Woodio/Susan Elo - stand
2017
33 Beginnings - 100 years of Finnish Design, Multimedia Art Museum Moscov and Suomi-House St Petersburg. Ragamuf project.
2017
Our Scissors, Fiskars scissors anniversary exhibition, Ice man -experimental coat
2017
Enter and Encounter, Design Museum. Ragamuf project.
2015+2017+2019
TypoGrafHelsinki in Helsinki Design Week, “Cinema Bianchini” leather accessories (2015),
“Very Personal” Shroud (2017), Nimmari/Autograph Tyvek T-shirt (2019)
2015
Suomimuodin antologia, Designmuseum
2015
We Love Wood(s) in Fiskars, “First” cradle and “Last” urn of ash tree
2014
Kimpassa -exhibition at Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki
2012
6 Scenes of Beauty in Vantaa Art Museum, “Björkliden hus” dollhouse
2010
Hirameki Design x Helsinki, in Tokyo, presence with ONNI brand
2010
Straightforward new Finnish Design -event in New York, presence with ONNI brand
2009
Helsinki Madrid FinnDesign in Madrid Matadero, presence with ONNI brand
1998-2004
LIGHTbar (Esplanadi stage), LIGHTtherapy (Lasipalatsi showroom), LIGHThostel
(Helsinki, Reykjavik, Bergen, Tallinn), LIGHTgym (Kiasma), group of three designers
2018-2022
Finnish Government 5 year grant for designer
2016
Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, artist residency
2016
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, grant for bag collection
2015
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Edinburgh artist residency
2015
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, grant for carpet designs
2014
Ålands Kultur Delekation, Källskär artist residency
2010
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, support for ONNI at Hirameki x Finland exhibition in Tokyo
2009
Greta and Wilhelm Lehtinen Foundation, grant for ONNI at Straightforward New Finnish
design -event in New York
2009
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, support for ONNI at Helsinki Madrid FinnDesign exhibition
2007
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, support for developing baby cradle
2022-24
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Peer reviewer of visual arts grants
2021-24
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Peer reviewer of design and architecture (vice chairman)
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