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  • Aalto students project for Prague Quadrennial

    Aalto students project for Prague Quadrennial

    Students from Aalto University will again be attending the 14th edition of the largest international festival of theater and stage design take place from June 6 to 16, 2019 in Prague. Over the course of eleven days, representatives of 79 countries will present at Prague Quadrennial, with over 800 artists from around the world, and…

  • Surface Elaboration Techniques Exhibition

    Surface Elaboration Techniques Exhibition

    During the last weeks Aalto Studios Dyeing Studio and Atelier Classroom, have been full of costume design students following the course Surface Elaboration Techniques. The students have been exploring different dyeing and patinating techniques; everything from creating fake blood and lookalike moss till making textiles look like worn leather. The course ended up with an…

  • Aalto Studios makes collaboration possible

    Aalto Studios makes collaboration possible

    At Aalto studios at Otakaari 7 students from four different backgrounds are working together to make technology, the body, and cloth work together in harmony. The course is called “Wearable Electronics” and is based on collaboration between costume design, sound design, lighting design, and choreography and is bringing Aalto ARTS and University of the Arts…

  • Game Engines for Artists at Aalto Studios

    Game Engines for Artists at Aalto Studios

    On March 14th from 17:00 – 20:00 the Virtual Cinema Lab invites all interested to a kick-off event at Studio Kipsari at Otakaari 7. Kick-off with peer-to-peer learning The purpose of the event is to enable knowledge exchange & exploration while connecting students, educators, XR enthusiasts, and industry professionals. Game engines are tools available for…

  • Digital Fabrication Studio

    Digital Fabrication Studio

    Digital Fabrication Studio is a course with a focus on rapid prototyping tools such as laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNC routers. Through the course, students are able to learn the fundamentals of digital fabrication. During this one-month intensive course, the attendees will learn what the FabLab is, what tools are available and how to…

  • Aalto Fablab is open!

    Aalto Fablab is open!

    We are excited to announce that Aalto Fablab has reopened its doors. The lab packed up its machinery at Harald Herlin Learning Center, and created a new lab at Otakaari 7C. The lab entrance is on the bottom floor on the south side of the building. At Fablab, anyone can prototype and experiment by using…

  • Playful prototyping at “Design with Movements” -workshop

    Playful prototyping at “Design with Movements” -workshop

    Aalto Studios hosted a 3-day workshop in the Studio Kipsari’s event room on 10.-12.9. as a part of Helsinki Design Week program. The theme of the workshop was “Design with Movements”, instructed by Eun Young Park. Park is a designer who finished her Master’s degree in New Media in Aalto University two years ago. A series…

  • Exhibition: Opiskelijanumero 11658 by Tiina Paju

    Exhibition: Opiskelijanumero 11658 by Tiina Paju

    We welcome all students, staff and friends to Aalto Studios Gallery, as we are hosting an exhibition of Tiina Paju, a graphic artist, illustrator and cartoonist. The exhibition “Opiskelijanumero 11658” displays graphic artist Tiina Paju’s works from four decades. The artist herself was accepted into University of Art and Design Helsinki (Taideteollinen korkeakoulu) as the student…

  • Come and see Lightboard in action

    Come and see Lightboard in action

    On 9.4, from 13–14.30, Join us to see new visualisation tool Lightboard in action. Lightboard is a transparent drawing board for recording chalk or whiteboard type presentations easily by drawing — and it looks great on video. Welcome, and come see how easy and enjoyable it is to use Lightboard! Lightboard is a project by Arttu…

  • Production design students feature in National Museum exhibit

    Production design students feature in National Museum exhibit

    Last week, Faces 1918 opened at the National Museum in Helsinki, featuring portraits from 100 years ago, reflecting everyday life through portraiture during the ongoing tension the Finnish Civil War. To complement and provide context for this era, production design students from Aalto University designed and produced a handful of exhibits showing the strife of living…

  • Student Lamp Design Exhibition now open in Studio Kipsari

    Student Lamp Design Exhibition now open in Studio Kipsari

    This week and next, Studio Kipsari and Aalto Studios are playing host to Valoa!, an exhibition of artfully-crafted student-designed lamps from the Design Tools course, led by Enni Äijälä. These designers are first year BA Design students, and haven’t yet decided what discipline of design they’ll focus on in their studies, so the lamps serve as a grounds of…

  • Aalto students bring life to a Wonderland for annual winter musical by Uniarts Helsinki

    Aalto students bring life to a Wonderland for annual winter musical by Uniarts Helsinki

    In Aalto Studios’ costume studio and set construction workshop Tjaša Frumen and Elina Ström, both MA students in Costume Design, and Oscar Dempsey, MA student in Design for Performing Arts, are hard at work on imaginative costumes and set designs for “Ihmemaa,” a musical production led by students at University of the Arts Helsinki. “Ihmemaa” translates to “wonderland,” as this year’s…

  • Studio Kipsari is moving in!

    Studio Kipsari is moving in!

    Aalto Studios is delighted to announce the opening of a new cafe, a spin-off of beloved vegetarian/vegan student restaurant, Kipsari, here in Otaniemi at Otakaari 7! Studio Kipsari, as it is called, will open next Monday, 22.1, inhabiting the cafeteria space on our first floor. Marjo Katainen, who manages the day-to-day operations at Kipsari’s main location, is eagerly…

  • Otakaari 7 main entrance closes for renovations

    Otakaari 7 main entrance closes for renovations

    The first round of modernizing our entry floor restaurant and event area at Otakaari 7 is nearing completion. Starting Monday June 12th, we’ll start work at the gallery and open workspace lobby area. By end of August, we should be all done. Our main entrance and lobby at Otakaari 7B will be closed from Jun…

  • Summer Renovation 2017

    Summer Renovation 2017

    Starting Monday April 3rd, our 2017 summer renovation round at Otakaari 7 begins in the ground floor. In the first round, we’ll remove the ceiling paneling from the cafeteria side and start work on a row of offices, converting them to the Web Studio, Virtual Reality Lab and a Meeting Room. By the end of…