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Week 146

Weeknote about World Design Capital, Boingboing & patents, and some #uxlx too.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

This Saturday we held a workshop as a part of the ideation for the forthcoming World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. The theme was “Touchscapes: Toward the next urban ecology” as coined by our friend Adam Greenfield. He also gave a talk about Taking Networks Seriously and Petri Kola from Aalto Medialab talked about open data in Finland, and also about “method Mastomäki” developed on using data for your own benefit.

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Week 145

Back from UX Lx, Portugal

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

50% of Nordkapp were in the UX Lx conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Bruno and his friends really outdid themselves with this very well organized, world class conference with big name speakers, room trashing workshops and lots of afterski events.

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WDC 2012 Idea forum: Touchscapes

We are proud to announce our participation in World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Ideas Forum, under the theme Touchscapes; Toward the next urban ecology.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

The theme of WDC Helsinki 2012 is Open City, and in similar vain the workshops on May 22nd are voluntary, free-for-all events. Their aim is to join the organizers to brainstorm, discuss and plan what the year 2012 as World Design Capital can mean and be for everybody.

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Week 144

A short weeknote in anticipation of UX Lx and Helsinki WDC 2012 Forum workshop.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

This week we were mostly hard at work with current projects. Several things in finishing phases. Nothing too new there.

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Week 143

A week of presentations, events and blog posts

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

This week’s weeknote will a be a bit shorter, because noteworthy things this week consisted mostly of presentations, events and blog posts. Or maybe because the weekend was dominated by Vappu, the Finnish Mayday, a country wide celebration of workers.

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