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Cocktail Hour Infographic
Data visualisation
2023
Data visualisation
2023
Tuli & Savu: Arkisto
layout design
Samu Pitkänen, Siiri Rajalin
2024
The layout design won gold in the publishing category and silver in the youth category at the 2024 Vuoden Huiput competition , together with Tuli & Savu issues Puhuja and Pyhä. All three winning issues were designed by members of Noin Seitsemän creative collective. The issues have also been shortlisted at the ADCE Awards 2024, Editorial Design category and Student category.
layout design
Samu Pitkänen, Siiri Rajalin
2024
The layout design won gold in the publishing category and silver in the youth category at the 2024 Vuoden Huiput competition , together with Tuli & Savu issues Puhuja and Pyhä. All three winning issues were designed by members of Noin Seitsemän creative collective. The issues have also been shortlisted at the ADCE Awards 2024, Editorial Design category and Student category.
Matalapaine (The Lightning
Rod)
poster and movie graphics.
2025
Matalapaine is a short film by director and writer Helmi Donner. It premiered at Festival de Cannes as a part of the La Cinef competition.
The film is set at the protagonist grandmothers house, so the central inspiration for the graphics were the finnish public radio televition channeles YLE1 and YLE2, and their retro programming, a typical background noise to any finnish mummola.
poster and movie graphics.
2025
Matalapaine is a short film by director and writer Helmi Donner. It premiered at Festival de Cannes as a part of the La Cinef competition.
The film is set at the protagonist grandmothers house, so the central inspiration for the graphics were the finnish public radio televition channeles YLE1 and YLE2, and their retro programming, a typical background noise to any finnish mummola.
The Girls and PikkuBambi
storybook T-shirt
Samu Pitkänen, Siiri Rajalin
2026
In the party T-shirt story The Girls and PikkuBambi, graphic design is combined with traditional storytelling as well as the creators’ shared passion for Helsinki’s dance culture and club scene. The story on the T-shirt is a remix-style combination—borrowed from record playing and mixing—of the old folktale Ivan and the Gray Wolf, the designers’ own experiences, and the experiences of a fictional party girl duo in the northern night. The work examines how the introverted and grey Helsinki secretly transforms at night into a wild city full of life. It celebrates the contrast of this underbelly and also functions as a tribute to friendship, partying, and throwing oneself into the moment, at a time when many do not seem to dare to “dance like nobody’s watching.”
storybook T-shirt
Samu Pitkänen, Siiri Rajalin
2026
In the party T-shirt story The Girls and PikkuBambi, graphic design is combined with traditional storytelling as well as the creators’ shared passion for Helsinki’s dance culture and club scene. The story on the T-shirt is a remix-style combination—borrowed from record playing and mixing—of the old folktale Ivan and the Gray Wolf, the designers’ own experiences, and the experiences of a fictional party girl duo in the northern night. The work examines how the introverted and grey Helsinki secretly transforms at night into a wild city full of life. It celebrates the contrast of this underbelly and also functions as a tribute to friendship, partying, and throwing oneself into the moment, at a time when many do not seem to dare to “dance like nobody’s watching.”
Graphic Monkeyishness
experimental typography zine
2025
Graphic Monkeyishness was the result of a creative writing/experimental typography course Design as Writing at Aalto University by Arja Karhumaa. The zine is titled after a jibe by Beatrice Warde in her book of esseys The Crystal Goblet. In this humorous pairing of words, used as a warning against the dangers of wild and experimental typography, I finally found the language to describe my own practice.
experimental typography zine
2025
Graphic Monkeyishness was the result of a creative writing/experimental typography course Design as Writing at Aalto University by Arja Karhumaa. The zine is titled after a jibe by Beatrice Warde in her book of esseys The Crystal Goblet. In this humorous pairing of words, used as a warning against the dangers of wild and experimental typography, I finally found the language to describe my own practice.
Serious Fun at the Club
social media posters
Samu Pitkänen, Justus Arvelin, Emma Tahvanainen
2025-
A club night by No Commercial Potential, where fun is taken extremely seriously. The series of social media invitations are a group effort: type by Justus Arvelin, fabulous frames by Emma Tahvanainen and animation by me.
social media posters
Samu Pitkänen, Justus Arvelin, Emma Tahvanainen
2025-
A club night by No Commercial Potential, where fun is taken extremely seriously. The series of social media invitations are a group effort: type by Justus Arvelin, fabulous frames by Emma Tahvanainen and animation by me.
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NOT-SO-LITTLE WEDNESDAY
visual identity
2025
A vibrant visual identity for those hot (n’ cold) summer Wednesdays on the Siltanen dancefloor. The clips in the videos are from public domain PSA films from the 60’s, warning against the dangers of partying. While I 100% agree with the message of the films, when you just clip the moments right before everything goes wrong, the people seem to be having a whole lot of fun. It all felt way too perfect to illustrate those summer weeknights, where you are looking to have a good time, with just a touch of danger.
visual identity
2025
A vibrant visual identity for those hot (n’ cold) summer Wednesdays on the Siltanen dancefloor. The clips in the videos are from public domain PSA films from the 60’s, warning against the dangers of partying. While I 100% agree with the message of the films, when you just clip the moments right before everything goes wrong, the people seem to be having a whole lot of fun. It all felt way too perfect to illustrate those summer weeknights, where you are looking to have a good time, with just a touch of danger.
Sextales & Cocktails
motion design
Samu Pitkänen, Emma Tahvanainen, Justus Arvelin
2024
A visual narrative of what very well could happen at Ravintola Tanner during the hot and steamy disco night Sextales & Cocktails, by the DJ duo Justus Arvelin and Hitoshi.
motion design
Samu Pitkänen, Emma Tahvanainen, Justus Arvelin
2024
A visual narrative of what very well could happen at Ravintola Tanner during the hot and steamy disco night Sextales & Cocktails, by the DJ duo Justus Arvelin and Hitoshi.
CLICK to play