At first this book looks as appealing as a brick covered with bread-bag clips, but do not let it put you down – inside it you find the most interesting world of 20 Helsinki based designers. (Plus essays by 12 people describing their ideas about Helsinki.)
You feel welcomed to their studios and homes and favorite places and dreams and hopes through the interviews and first and foremost through the amazingly beautiful photos by Katja Hagelstam. They introduce you even to the light and weather in Helsinki all around a year.
OK, design cannot of course solve all the everyday problems of Helsinki or Finland or the world, but the positive attitude and willpower are surely needed to keep our nose above the water level.
You can buy the English edition 20+12 Design Stories from Helsinki via http://recordshopx.com/book/hagelstam_tanttu_katja/20_12_design_stories_from-helsinki/
And the same book in Finnish (20+12 muotoilutarinaa Helsingistä, WSOY) you find in your nearest bookshop or internet wsoy.fi/yk/products/show/178951
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