Season’s Greetings!
We wish you all a peaceful Christmas and prosperous and sustainable New Year! Image: Anna Savolainen
Sustainable
competitiveness
with design
Design Forum Finland supports the growth, internationalisation and competitiveness of Finnish SMEs. We provide guidance and advice, and lower the barrier for utilising design extensively in business development.
Ongoing projects
Circular Design for Business
Do you work in product or service development and are fluent in Finnish? Our free online course will provide you with an understanding of circular economy-based design in just ten hours.
Circular Design for Business webinar
The keynote speaker of the webinar on the 5th of December was Deborah Sumter from the Netherlands. The webinar was bilingual, in Finnish and English.
DeCo – Design Collaboration for Sustainable Business
DeCo aims to improve local,regional and national development policies through exchange of experience and capacity building in circular and sustainable design, production and manufacturing.
Facts about Finnish design
Source: Ornamo 2022.
Enterprises
13940
Number of design business enterprises in Finland.
Growth
+ 61 %
The turnover of Finnish enterprises offering design services has grown 61 % since 2010.
Turnover
13.5
The turnover of design business in Finland in 2020 was 13.5 billion Euros.
Employees
68400
Persons employed in Finnish design businesses in 2020.
Towards an ecosystem
What does the design industry consist of? Design-intensive companies, design service providers, various professional or support organizations, museums, educational institutions, and media.
Membership of Design Forum Finland speaks of your company’s strong desire to develop its operations and abilities in the areas of circular and sustainable design, brand or customer experience.
