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Weeknote 342

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

Categories Weeknotes

Right now I’m sitting in the couch of a temp Barcelona office slash Airbnb crib while trying to group a few thoughts together about what’s been going on for the past few weeks. For one, it’s been quite hectic and at the same time feels we’ve found a completely new gear in our to run […]

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Weeknote 328: Winning, etc

In this week note: two victories for our startup clients, one shortlisting. And then some.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

In this week note: two victories for our startup clients, one shortlisting. And then some.

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Weeknote 324

In this weeknote: moving & filling boxes, temporarily setting in a startup mode while anxiously waiting for the D-day. Project update, and setting up an outpost in Tokyo.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

It is the moving week this week. Everyone’s been busy packing and checking the new office and getting quite excited. Jukka & myself ran the first workshop and a floor renovation above our old office drove most of the office folk to the new space. Luckily only few of us had large scale design work […]

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Nordkapp Weeknote 322

Nordkapp Weeknotes returning into form with the first note this autumn, including a long due update about our people and a massive project drop.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

Categories Nordkapp, Projects, Weeknotes

Whew. It’s been a while since the last weeknote. Summer flew by, and everyone at the office got some well earned rest. Since the early August we’ve been busy bees working on exciting old & new things. Changes in the line-up First, since we last spoke there has been some changes in the personnel at […]

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Weeknote 263

Windows 8, Finnair, Zombies at Wowzapp Hackathon, launch of Finlex.fi and multitude of projects.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

There’s too many things and projects that have been done, that I can’t tell in detail about all of them or this post will never end.

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Weeknote 256

What happens in Redmond doesn’t stay in Redmond — or in other words — how we became the go-to Windows 8 designers in Finland.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

In addition to cranking out Windows 8 applications all the time here at home, we had the luxury to attend an official Windows 8 Train The Trainer event at Microsoft’s premises in Redmond, USA. We are the first and only ones from Finland who’ve had this privilege.

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Weeknote 254

Design for startups, launching Ruutu.fi, iPad first vs. Windows 8 first

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Dang, August was busy! We were hammering projects left and right in August. That’s why some weeknotes were missed again. Nevermind, let’s see what we’ve done recently.

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Weeknote 251

Why design for Windows 8 Modern UI, and how Netflix & HBO just disrupted the Finnish TV industry.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We’ve been into Windows 8. Just recently we’ve done two application concepts and one actual application for Windows 8. The application was called “the best one we’ve seen” in Microsoft design review. That’s nice. Who did the other apps?

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Weeknote 250

Core77 2012 Design Awards, babies, cities, copycats and whatnot.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Long summer hiatus is over and we are back at work and rocking and rolling again. Let’s recap some things through May, June & July.

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Weeknote 236

Boom! We make future happen. This week’s weeknote is self-congratulatory.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We were awakened to a realisation of our current line-up of projects which are simply awesome.

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