Sivistyksen syke - bicentennial anniversary site for Cygnaeus and Schildt

First pages of an information site for bicentennial celebration of two notable Finnish men, Uno Cygnaeus and Wolmar Schildt were published today. The bicentennial celebration will take place next year, in 2010. This is a very small information site which will contain - besides short introductions to both men - mainly the information calendar to the anniversary events. The event calendar and exhibition calendar will be opened during the beginning of 2010. I designed the overall visual look of the site commissioned by the City of Jyväskylä and the Museum of Jyväskylä University.

The anniversary will hold also an net exhibition which will open in March 2009. I'm commissioned to make graphics and execution of the site, but my work will be based on the script and vision by Anne Kalliomäki who has also written the texts to the info site.

unojawolmar200.jyvaskyla.fi

Christmas rush

The year has been busy. I've been planning to update my web site (and Timppa's - which I had promised already before summer) and also start a new portfolio site but somehow time manages to pass us by flying. There have been some action on art front so I won't complain. I didn't sell any works from the Poriginal Gallery exhibition but while the exhibition I got a commission of 85 prints from Central Finland
Health Care District - which was good enough reason to start to plan another trip to Tuscany, Italy. Also, I have some of my prints on "Jouluksi kotiin" (To Home for Christmas) exhibition in Rööperin taidesalonki in Helsinki until January 6, 2010.

I also made some small sites. Jussi Jäppinen ky - graafinen suunnittelu was totally a collect-the-pieces-and-put-them-together gig: the site graphics and user interface as well as the whole content was provided for me by Jussi Jäppinen and his son (working in the same graphic design agency) Juho Jäppinen, so I won't take any credit for web design there. But it was a work project allright.

I still have to finish a layout for an anniversary site for Cygnaeus and Schildt - which is laid out in the cms of the City of Jyväskylä which cuts off a lot of creativity...

So, this is christmas: snow snow snow and it's freezing cold. But candles burning and hot cocoa. And chatting with Ulla who's still couple of days in the residence in Oaxaca, Mexico. It could be worse...

Badges...

I designed my first snap-on badges to sell in some christmas events, f.ex. Art Museum Christmas Bazaar in the beginning of December. They sold quite well... The rest of my first badge set will be sold at the Jyväskylä Art Museum, museum shop and they will cost about 3 euros each.

I ordered another load of badge pin-back sets and hopefully I find some time to make more of these badges...