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Weeknote 230

Vuoden Huiput 2011, Grand One 2012, Flurry & SXSW, mobile applications, future and copycats recap.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We have stuff in competitions again and we discuss some recent incidents of people copying our website.

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Weeknote 215-216

Daddy's back, things of national importance and getting shortlisted in IxD Awards.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Hoy, who’s-your-daddy is back. After having a second baby in the family, I’m back from some luxurious paternity leave time that Finland has to offer. Actually, I’ve been back for some time now, but getting back to grips with weeknotes is apparently a step harder now that one’s sleep time is drastically cut, again. Nevertheless, […]

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Weeknote 214

Another weeknote, still filling in for Teppo. This time more about reinvention, failing, student visits and public speaking.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

Categories Weeknotes

We’ve been doing quite a lot of interesting bits and pieces. First, we did a bit of a facelift to our own work. A large web service, actually one of the largest in Finland in terms of content, launches soon after being hidden in corporate pipes for a while. There were some accessibility concerns we […]

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Weeknote 207 + 208

We launched Urbanflow Helsinki website, made it to Computer Arts magazine and met some elders.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Oopsie, two weeks passed since last weeknote, but such is life. Instead in the meantime there was a blog post about the newly opened Urbanflow Helsinki website. Urbanflow, as you might know, is a joint effort of Nordkapp and Urbanscale. Together we envision an operating system for cities. If you’ve somehow managed to miss this, […]

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Building Urbanflow Helsinki

Urbanflow Helsinki is an interactive informational service for urban screens and connected devices, designed and conceived in collaboration with Urbanscale LLC and Nordkapp.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

As you may have noticed, we released the concept video of Urbanflow Helsinki in mid-July. The response has been great: over 10 000 views on Vimeo, mentions on Wired (by none the less than the legendary Bruce Sterling!), Archdaily, Digitalurban, the Architecture Report, JohnnyHolland.tv, and not to mention a plentitude of Twitter traffic and so […]

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