June 7th, 2012 / Fennia Prize Grand Prix 2012 Fingrid & Muotohiomo
Less visible, stronger and long lasting design in large scale: Fingrid field tower 2012.
Fingrid Plc maintains Finland’s national electricity transmission grid with its large power lines extending throughout the country. The new field tower is an important investment for Fingrid. Its design had to consider appearance, security, strict technical requirements, manufacturing and maintenance costs, and environmental factors. The design of the tower sought to minimize negative impact on cultivation – the idea for a tower type that would save arable land originally came from farmers. A difference in comparison with the conventional tower type is the lack of guylines, permitting easier use of agricultural machinery near the tower.
The innovative foundation of the tower is of heavy prefabricated concrete elements that are brought to the site. The protective structures around the base of the tower prevent collisions, and the soil can be tilled right next to the tower. The traditional lattice structure has been replaced with a more open one, making the tower merge better into the surrounding landscape. The erection and maintenance of the field tower can now be carried out more efficiently. Muotohiomo was fully responsible to innovate and create design consepts to engineer new type of field towers. Work continues with new smaller pylons fof 110 kv.
Links:
Kauppalehti 7.6.2012
Design Forum Finland 7.6.2012
Helsingin Sanomat Hs.fi 7.6.2012
March 7th, 2012 / Design Exchange
Sitra has started a new facinating programme bringing government and design together. Design Exchange is a globally unique initiative with a number of placements opening up during 2012.
Each placement lasts one year and the ongoing results will be shared on the design exchange blog. Muotohiomo was happy to help with the visual design.
Feb 23rd, 2012 / Thank You!
Valentine´s Day brought Helsinki a snow storm and Muotohiomo heated up the House Warming Party with extra logs.
Thanks for many of our friends, collaborators and clients how made it trough the wind and snow, and stayed with us
- some until for o’clock in the morning:)
Feb 23rd, 2012 / Go Sailing!
Muotohiomo designed a new exhibition for Marinetek at the Helsinki Boat Fare, held in the Helsinki fair center last week.
Marinetek is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of marinas and floating solutions.
Check out the making-of timelapse on our front page by Mr. Mait Jüriado
Feb 14th, 2012 / Happy Valentine´s Day!
I´s always better when we´re together.
Today we are celebrating team spirit, friends, and being creative together.
We would like to invite you all to share this day with us in our new office, the Tölli, in the Marian Sairaala district.
Welcome!
Jan 23rd, 2012 / Ciao!
Say hello & goodbye. Jani Koivula has left the building and architect Alessandro Vanzino joined Muotohiomo team in the beginning of January. Alessandro is taking over Janis legacy, and just started working on an exciting new project with Logomo, the new creative center in Turku. Benvenuto!
P.S We love the way he talks with his hands!
Jan 5th, 2012 / Nordic Graphic Designers
Northern light? A new visual bibel presenting the best of best in nordic graphic designers is published, by Arvinius Förlag. 383 pages really shows, that here in north we can.
Muotohiomo is in good company and our modest graphic contributions to the world are presented in pages 272 to 279.
Nordic Graphic Designers can be found and ordered from www.arnivus.se
Happy New Year!
Finally 2012 is here! 
Dec 8th, 2011 / Have a very Merry!
Just to let you know, Muotohiomo is having pikkujoulu today. We are moving but not far Muotohiomo is on the move and out of reach on Monday 31st of October. Our new studio is located in the historical milieu of the Maria Hospital. The official opening party will be held a bit later but starting from November 1st, this is where You find us: Lapinlahdenkatu 16, House 14, 00180 Helsinki. Oct 28th, 2011 / “50 years of Finnish Industrial Design” seminar at Ateneum. Pekka will take part in the panel discussions. Oct 1st, 2011 / Congratulations. Sep 29th, 2011 www.low2no.org The new website for Sitra, related to the Low2No-project, is launched. More about our projects for Sitra in works. Aalto Restaurant opening on the 15th of October! Hungry? We are (always). Take a sneak peak at the new restaurant. 23.9 Greetings from Brussels Mari travelled to Brussels to present the new interior work for Finland´s Foreign Ministery. We are working on the office design for Finland´s Permanent Presentation in EU. This project is the biggest interior design for both us and our client currently on the working table. Merci – had a great time. 22.9 End of summer? 14.9 Pekka as a guest speaker in Kuntamarkkinat 10.9 Keittiönet ready (pictures later at works) More power! 26-27.8 Do You Speak Design? 1.8 New Art Director joins the team 3o.6 Power transmission towers Summer is here!
Out of office 18th of May Thinking of buying a new bike? Kalenteri 2011 Looking for a job? Low2No in Monocle
This year we again decided to try something totally different and started our merry day with reindeer shooting.
Here´s a sneek peek. We´ll be back in business later tomorrow.
Sami´s son is now called Leo. Onnea!
The summer terrace we designed for Stockmann is taken away for winter storage. To recap the last rays of summer, check the design from works. 
Our new client Mikeva, a company specializing in health care, was also present at this event promoting their services. Muotohiomo helped with the Mikeva booth design.
In case You are needing a new kitchen – this is Your address. The new store in Espoo opened for public on the 10t of September. www.keittio.net
The project with Fingrid continues with a new brief. This time we will be looking in the design of a smaller version of the power line transmission towers. These towers are specifically designed to be used in farmlands.
IIkka and Mari will participate in the lectures related to environmental design and supply chain management at Aalto Design Factory. These lectures are part of the Idbm Pro program at Aalto University.
Piritta Hannonen joins Muotohiomo. With a long experience working as a graphic designer and an art director in Design Forum Finland, we are very happy to have Piritta join our team. She will be responsible for leading our graphic designers.
Fingrid Oyj, the electricity transmission system operator in Finland, launched 30th June new power towers especially designed for argicultural environments. Muotohiomo is the R&D partner and in charge of developing new construction idea and design for towers. Project included research, consept planning and ingeneerign design. The first lines with new towers will be erected 2012.
Muotohiomo is more or less on summer holiday during July. We have had a great spring and we are looking
forward to return back to work on the first day of August! We wish you and your friends a nice, long summertime!
Muotohiomo team heads of to Hviträsk to develop company values and enjoy the countryside.
Go and test drive one in Ilmastoinfo´s brand new service space in Sanoma House. Ilmastoinfo is offering a range of different bicycles to test for free in May. Pelago, Pyörähuolto.com and Tunturi bikes are available for the riding. P.S Muotohiomo has designed the Sanoma House service space, as well as multiple other tasks for ilmastoinfo. Check the pics from the Work section.
Together with her friend, graphic designer Maritta Toivola, Inka Kosonen designed a calendar for the year 2011. Over a period of a year and a half, Kosonen and Toivola photographed tags and illustrations that appear on restroom walls throughout Helsinki. In these rough, beautiful images, one can find philosophy, humor, debates, conversations, statements and stickers. More information can be found here.
We are constantly looking for fresh talent within all fields of design. If you are supertalented, motivated, eager and a good person in general, don´t hesitate to send an application here.
The Low2No -project powered by Sitra got some nice visibility in the latest issue of Monocle! Muotohiomo has been working on the project identity which can be found here.
