Hello

Hello! We are Elina, Krista and Saara and in 2002 we came up with the idea of Imu design, a platform for young finnish designers to showcase their work. Over the past years Imu has grown from a hobby to part of our work. We now produce an annual exhibition of new designs called Protoshop for the Habitare design fair together with the Finnish Fair Corporation. The photos below were taken around Helsinki in 2002 for the first Imu exhibition.

When Helsinki was chosen to be World Design Capital in 2012 we knew we had to contribute with something special but we didn’t want to fill in any grant applications or do anything complicated. We wanted something that we could easily do ourselves but that could efficiently spread the word about design, Helsinki and the year 2012. So we decided to start this blog. The idea is to write about current phenomena in the design field, about designers and their ideas, about places travellers should visit when coming to Helsinki and maybe a bit of design gossip.We are three different people with three different outlooks on life so we will probably end up writing about different topics. There also might be an occasional post in finnish if we feel linguistically challenged.

PS. We just realised that Imu will be 10 years old in 2012 so that’s one more reason to do something new with ourselves!