Helsinki and Eindhoven competing for becoming Design Capital 2012
UPDATE 25.11.2009> Helsinki will be the Design Capital 2012!
Two cities, Helsinki inFinland and Eindhoven in The Netherlands are competing about the prestigeous title of Design Capital 2012. The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design will choose the winner in November. The judges will visit the two cities in August.
If Helsinki is chosen there will be big opening and closing events and several festivals and happenings organised around Design and Architecture in the city during the two-year capitalship.
Will the establishment of Iittala, Marimekko, Fiskars, Aalto, Artek, Helsinki art nouveau- and modern architecture, and designers like Ilka Suppanen, Harri Koskinen, Valvomo bring the price home, or do the judges look for new design ideas of non-commercialism, ecology, ethics and mysticism like Hel Looks, Globe Hope, Hollmen-Reuter-Sandman Architects, Marcus Copper, or -since the almost total death of free graffiti culture in the city-, the risign culture of guerilla gardening in Helsinki?
Marimekko
Alvar Aalto
art nouveau architecture
Snowcrash Globlow lamp
Hel Looks: Colin (33)
Hollmen Reuter Sandman
Archangel of the seven seas - Marcus Copper
Guerilla Gardening
aitoa arkkitehtuuria 
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