Developing Design Museums Visual Communication
Services included in the project scope:
Exhibition Identity
Spatial Design
Custom Type
Naming
Marketing
Brand Identity
Company’s Johan Olin and Aamu Song photographed at the Secret Universe exhibition. Secret Universe was our first collaboration with the Design Museum.
Linda Bergroth designed the vibrant and playful exhibition architecture.
We have worked as Helsinki Design Museums’ design partner for their main exhibitions since 2019. Working closely with the Design Museum team and interior architects, we ensure that each exhibition’s essence is creatively and impactfully visually communicated on the spatial and exterior surfaces.
During the past years, we have successfully created identities for seven main exhibitions, including Secret Universe, Iittala 140, Design for Everybody, Aalto University’s fashion students Intimacy exhibition and the record-breaking Kustaa Saksi Borderlands.
The key visual for the Intimacy exhibition features a handcrafted pattern and custom type.
Work in progress image of creating the Intimacy visuals.
Exhibition architecture: Lauri Johansson
Iittala – Kaleidoscope: From Nature to Culture brought the company’s history together in one place in an unforeseen manner and intensively reflected the developments of Finnish society.
The awarded Iittala Kaleidoscope key images: Carl Bergman
Architect Florenci Colombo and industrial designer Ville Kokkonen designed the interior architecture for Iittala Kaleidoscope.
Travel as a Tool – A joint Nordic exhibition that considers the significance of travel for the work of Nordic designers from the 1940’s to the present day.
For the Travel as a Tool exhibition we collaborated with interior architect Henri Halla-aho.
The identity featured a set of illustrations that were used throughout all exhibition materials, including signage and digital platforms.
ANTTI + VUOKKO NURMESNIEMI featured works by one of Finland’s most renowned designer couples –for the first time in the same show. Interior designer Antti Nurmesniemi and textile artist Vuokko Nurmesniemi made international careers in their fields of expertise.
Exhibition architecture: Linda Bergroth
The project’s scope included a publication that focused on the Nurmesniemis’ life together and their professional careers from the 1950s to the 2000s and showcased the extensive nature of their design practice. They designed everything from coffee pots to landscape architecture, from textile prints to companies’ visual identities.
DESIGN FOR EVERY BODY highlighted the interconnection between design and equality in the past century. The present and past of design come together around the questions: Who is allowed to design and on whose terms? Who do they design for? Whose work is visible, whose voice is heard?
Images: Paavo Lehtonen
Exhibition architecture: Hanna Anonen
KUSTAA SAKSI: IN THE BORDERLANDS explored moments between reality and illusion, the starting point for many of Saksi’s works. First Symptoms is a series of works in which the artist visualises his experiences of the visual disturbances that often accompany migraines with aura. In contrast, the works in the Hypnopompic series explore the hallucinations experienced between sleep and wakefulness.
Exhibition architecture: Lauri Johansson
We have worked as Helsinki Design Museums’ design partner for their main exhibitions since 2019. Working closely with the Design Museum team and interior architects, we ensure that each exhibition’s essence is creatively and impactfully visually communicated on the spatial and exterior surfaces.
During the past years, we have successfully created identities for seven main exhibitions, including Secret Universe, Iittala Kaleidoscope, Design for Everybody, Aalto University’s fashion students Intimacy exhibition and the record-breaking Kustaa Saksi Borderlands.
Are you interested in collaborating with us on your next project?
Please contact:
Tuukka Koivisto
Head of Design, Kobra
List of people involved:
Project Lead: Tuukka Koivisto, James Zambra
Designer: Johannes Iilahti, Jaakko Suomalainen, Andreas Ebneter
Motion designer, Johannes Iilahti, Gabriel Boicel
Project Manager: Eva Persson, Sofia Stenfors
Project Coordinator: Hanna Kaltiainen, Fanny Bruun
Exhibition architects: Linda Bergroth, Lauri Johansson, Hanna Anonen, Henry Halla-aho
Exhibition images: Paavo Lehtonen
Exhibition photographers: Carl Bergman, Paavo Lehtonen
Services included in project scope: