Finland-born Kustaa Saksi is an internationally appreciated artist and textile designer currently residing in Amsterdam. His latest collection, titled Hypnopompic, presents uniquely beautiful and surreal artworks manufactured with jacquard weaving technique. Jacquard technique is named after the French inventor, Joseph Maris Jacquard, who designed the jacquard loom. With his automatic loom, it was possible to […]
Janna Syvänoja is a designer and artist born in Helsinki, Finland. She creates stunning sculptures and jewelry pieces out of recycled paper, maps, catalogues, dictionary books, and other found objects – old pieces of wood, barks of birch tree, roots, seeds and horsehair. The best pleasure, she said, is to create “something beautiful, valuable, from something […]
Mikko Lagerstedt is a self-taught landscape photographer and graphic designer born in Finland. He started taking photographs in December 2008. One day he was driving to a relative’s cabin. It had been raining for the whole day and just as the Sun was setting, the clouds started to disappear. Mikko stopped when he saw the […]
Erno-Erik Raitanen is a photographer born in Finland. He photographed self-portraits using colourful and unusual patterns. These series, called “Bacteriograms”, display Raitanen’s own body bacteria cultivated on the gelatine surface of film negatives. The artist had an original idea of gathering the bacteria samples from his own body. The bacteria consumed the film surface and […]
Ani Reimi-Orsa is a professional freelance illustrator and concept artist born in 1987 in Helsinki, Finland. She is skilled in digital art, 3D modelling, game texturing and animation. Ani’s work is spooky enough and too much striking. While finding inspiration in Studio Ghibli’s movies, nature, animals, bright colours and some video games, she tries to […]
