New Finnish Design CITY – Let's Talk Design!

Finnish and American creative professionals share a stage at this fun and dynamic Pecha Kucha event. Each presenter has 20 slides and 20 seconds for each slide to talk about design, or whatever they consider to be design.

Thursday, October 18, 2012 , 7 – 8.30 pm

Marimekko NYC Flagship Store
200 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

Space is limited.
RSVP to info.nyc@formin.fi by October 15th.

Participants:

Ville Kokkonen, Design Director, Artek
Kristian Lazzaro, Head of Fab’s Vintage shop, fab.com
Timo Rissanen, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability, Parsons The New School for Design
Lynn Shanahan, President, Marimekko North America
Aamu Song and Johan Olin, Co-founders, Company
Saku Tuominen, Creative Director, Idealist group
Willy Wong, Chief Creative Officer, NYC & Company

Moderated by Dan Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief, Surface Magazine

The Let’s talk Design event is organized in collaboration with Marimekko and Surface magazine, and is part of the yearlong New Finnish Design CITY project organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Consulate General of Finland in New York.

www.design-city.net
www.mfa.fi