Happy 2012 everyone! As some of you might know, my dear hometown Helsinki is the world design capital this year. In relation to the design year, a very nice book, 20+12 Design Stories from Helsinki has been published. It’s a book about Helsinki through the eyes of designers, architects and other creatives and to my surprise a picture I have taken has indirectly made it to the book!
The set designer Markku Pätilä is interviewed in the book and there’s pictures of his home in it. While flicking through the book I was very happy to notice that a portrait of my sister that I took a couple of years ago (to this date one of the best pictures I’ve ever taken) and gave to Mr Pätilä for his birthday has made it to the book. This is the same portrait that Pätilä used in one of the sets for the movie Paha Perhe and now it has a prime spot on his wall – and that wall has made it into the book 20+12! Next time I’ll try to get my pictures directly to a hip design publication, but for now I’m happy to indirectly be part of this cool publication about my hometown.
I probably shouldn’t talk about Stockholm when I’m trying to promote the coolness of my hometown, but if anyone has their way through the city berfore the 15th of January, there’s a very beautiful exhibition with Turner, Monet and Twombly at Moderna Museet. Highly recommended! The photography collection that’s currently on display is also very impressive, but unfortunatley the exhibition was so big that I didn’t have time to see it all…
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