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All-time top 12 Finnish design products

On our Top 12 list of Finnish design that contributes to wellbeing: sauna, Moomins, Marimekko and a few surprises.

See how Yellow City, a book project in Helsinki’s year as 2012 World Design Capital, portrays urbanity (slideshow).

We try out a fun, new smartphone app for rediscovering landmark buildings by Alvar Aalto in the Finnish capital area.

Hella Hernberg’s Urban Dream Management is into grassroots projects in underused settings. See what she’s talking about.

Minna Hepburn may be the only designer with a war studies degree. Nowadays she creates ecologically sustainable fashion.

The Helsinki-based creative duo, known as COMPANY, has been successfully designing, exhibiting and touring since 2000.

At the very centre of Helsinki, urban gardening sprouts amid disused railway tracks.

Fiskars, home village of the iconic orange-handled scissors, forms a mecca of design, art and good food.