A photo speaks more than a thousand words. Here’s a peek to today’s Rhythm planting sessions.

Please join us tomorrow!

We had the honour of judging the Environmentally friendly design exhibition of NowHereFinland today. Other jurors were designer Harri Koskinen, professor Pirjo Kääriäinen from Aalto University and regional design artist Paula Susitaival.

I think we were quite happy with the best pieces, but man some of those greenwasher-projects made us uncomfortable. And it certainly seems to be hard to really manufacture something ecologically viable instead of doing small-scale handicraft stuff from recycled material. Not that there is anything wrong that. But, somehow, we missed the out-of-the-box-thing. A bit.

Please join us in  our newest claim-your-streets-kinda-happening Rytmi, this time in the World Design Capital of Kauniainen,whose Design capital year we’ll be honoured to launch.

The planting sessions of 20 000 tulips will be on Sept 30 and Oct 1 st, rain or shine. A bit like our You’re beautiful! and You’re important -projects, but grander.

Featuring a choir and a group of sax players! Hot drinks! Balloons!

Dont’t miss it.

More info at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272152706136891.

(Oops, only in Finnish for the time being).

Today was the first day of our latest stamp, a miniature sheet of two stamps to celebrate one of our national authors, Juhani Aho.

One of the perks of this job is to learn a thing or two about, say, literature.

We’re expecting a new addition to our pretty row of BOTH babies (real ones, not the ones done for customers).

Since early parenthood and full-time-employment are a hard match, we’re looking for a temporary (or permanent, if all goes well) addition to our design team.

We like to think about ourselves as a quality design company. We like to keep it that way, so we like to see quality type, branding and possibly magazine design in portfolios we receive. Most likely we like to see quite a few years of professional practice as well. And, since one of our first internal codes of conduct is a capability and willingness to team-work, we tolerate very little ego-centred design-princessisms.

And desipite the language of this blog entry, our new designer must have a decent command of Finnish.
Please approach us with your most beautiful and exiting portfolios or any questions at rekry(thethingie)both.fi.