All Things Finnish

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“I look back through books and photos for old prints, there was one that we had where no original pieces were left, so we had to sketch again from the very beginning, it was ’Helsinki-Helsingfors Print’ designed in 1952 by Per-Olof Nyström. Nystrom’s daughters held the copyright and we only had a photo of a swatch but we couldn’t see the repeat – it was like a puzzle. We had to restart the hand-drawing process”.                                               -------Mika Piirainen/Marimekko photo credit: indesignlive.com

photo by Hanna Virtanen

photo by Lauri Lohi lyrics by Lennon-McCartney

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photo by Markku Pirttimaa

photo by Veli Pohjonen

photo of the week for Landscape Photography Magazine

Winter Lights by Michael Liu Via Flickr: This photo was taken at Kilpisjarvi - Lapland, Finland. My countless sleepless nights has been answered with this trip. Months before this trip, I've been having the same reoccurring (and disturbing) dream of myself alone wondering into the deep mountains at the edge of the world in search of the Northern Lights. With strange luck and sequence of events, we found ourselves directly under the Aurora Borealis. The lights got so close and so bright the surrounding mountains lit up. Words just cannot describe the beauty of this phenomenon...

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photo credit: Erkki Tuomala/Itä-Savo

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photo by Ritva Astikainen

photo by Risto