Search results for street food

How did HDL choose projects?

This might be the most common question we've received lately, so as we prepare to close out HDL and this blog we want to share some thoughts on the subject. Below I dip into the weeds a bit with some...
Read more

The Pivot

Last week we finally went live with Open Kitchen. I'll let Antto explain it briefly and if you want more detail you should check the site; this post will focus more on how we ended up with Open...
Read more

Week 179

In all honesty, writing this weeknote is taking some effort on my behalf. My brain feels sintered to the details of our various projects and stepping back to take stock—let alone reflect...
Read more

Weeks 174-177

This took longer than it should have. We've been back from the summer holidays for a solid week now, but as you can see there is some lag getting back into the habit of writing. Last time I was just...
Read more

Sitra Coffee Lab

What follows next is a pro barista tip courtesy of Strategic Design Unit. If you want to gather people somewhere, make them stay there longer and boost their creativity - serve them really good, well...
Read more

Week 165

Hello, it's me again, and so predictably this is a few days late.  Before I run through last week's events, I thought I'd share this. Bryan tweeted a Dezeen article about the new Shard tower in...
Read more

Moikka from Kalle

As Dan already mentioned in his previous post, I just recently started here at the Strategic Design Unit as an intern. Currently I'm studying marketing at the University of Helsinki's Viikki campus....
Read more

Week 160

Always with the latenote. OK, last week was busy. Bryan and I met with the City of Helsinki's Chief Information Officer Markku Raito RE Brickstarter. It was a good, engaged conversation; I'd met...
Read more

Week 158

Flying over Lake Eyre, northerly out of Adelaide. This week, the weeknote is really brought to you by Adelaide and Melbourne Design Lab, rather than Helsinki Design Lab. I've been in...
Read more

Week 157

Week 157, and a touch of 158 if we're being honest, was mostly about getting things out the door. Almost by coincidence, we finally launched new websites for the Design Exchange Programme and...
Read more

Helsinki Street Eats (and hacking Lulu)

This post is part Low2No project update and part design how-to delving into simple customization of the Print On Demand books as a format. First, the update. Low2No is about creating pathways...
Read more

   

Week 154

Aalto University School of Art & Design, Arabianranta campus. A very busy but productive week, which started in a snowstorm at Aalto University, where I was running a 2-day workshop on...
Read more

Week 151

Tilting at windmills. If you look very very closely at the photo above, you'll see a string of windmills on the horizon, set against the perfect blue sky. This is Högsåra, an...
Read more

Week 150

The week we're about to write into the archives here was the bridge between January and February. So it was a while ago, but since it's Week 150 (!) and technically still about the first month of the...
Read more

Weeks 142-147

And... decloak! Hi, we're back. Closing out all of the work and accounts before the end of the year became more hectic than any of us expected and that means we ended up with nothing more than...
Read more

Week 141

As I write this post there's a bubbling hive of activity behind me inside the Flanders District of Creativity in Leuven, Belgium. I've come to sit in the back of the room while the government of...
Read more

Week 138: Mostly about food

Roll call! Johanna is mostly pitching in on Synergize Finland projects, Justin is holding down the fort in Boston, Marco is in Moscow giving a talk at Skolkovo, and Dan is somewhere in Australia...
Read more

 

Week 134

A mixed bag of links, reports and observations this week. Although it's just been found to be in fine fettle in terms of its core missions (link; Finnish) Sitra is looking at its new strategy for...
Read more

Week 132

The air is increasingly crisp as autumn falls upon Helsinki. And yet summer is not giving up without a fight. This week we enjoyed one of the warmest September days on record. It does feel warmer...
Read more

 

Week 117

With Juhannus now days away, we're transitioning from a spring of spiky activity that came in high and rapid peaks to a mid-year that is more even-keeled. As Dan mentioned last time, this...
Read more