New people: Please welcome Kate, Jukka and Akseli!

It must be the spring— Nordkapp is growing quite steadily these days. Here's a brief introduction to some of our newest designers;

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

First, from behalf of everyone at Nordkapp I’d like to welcome our newest addition Jukka Koops. As it seems to happen quite often nowadays, he’s switching industries back to design after a stint in marketing communications at Finnish advertising agency Kirnauskis 2.0. But there’s more than that— he’s a recording artist, has a history in [...]

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Weeknote 187

Structural problems, maps and price wars.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We design maps and fight for projects to succeed.

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10 things for 2011

As we're only a few hours away from leaving the first decade of 00's behind, the predictions for the following year are all over the internet already. Following last year's predictions, here's some things to expect in the year 2011.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

UPDATE: now including also the missing fifth piece. Thanks for our reader @sebastianwaters for pointing this out. 1. Connected, wearable electronics hit mainstream On wearable electronics Nike+ was just the beginning. For example, see Mutewatch, Analarm or MMNML‘s incredibly successful Kickstarter project turning iPod Nanos into multitouch wristwatches. The next step is someone making these [...]

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