The second year PACKLAB. students Nikolo Kerimov and Ilari Laitinen were invited to Sundsvall, Sweden in the beginning of October 2009, to pick up the first prize in the Packaging Mid Sweden Award-competition for their easy-to-open concept "IISI". The prizes were awarded ...Read More
First year students Ilari Laitinen, Marianne Puisto and Suvi Suominen supplied and built an exhibition stand for Lahti printing house Aldus for Lahti Book Exhibition, a special fair for books and literature held at Lahden Messukeskus on 21.-22.3.2009. Wall construction ...Read More
Thomas Åkerfelt is currently working with Pearlfisher one of the world's leading brand design consultancies in London for one month to gain valuable work experience. We wish him all the best. http://www.pearlfisher.com/ Read More
Ville Kolppo worked as a packaging/product designer at Stora Enso over the summer. Ville is returning to cooperate with Stora Enso for his final thesis work. We wish him all the best. Read More
PACKLAB. works with the biggest companies and wins the biggest competitions. PACKLAB. students are currently working with some of the biggest companies in Europe. Students are working in close cooperation with Nokia, Nestle, Fiskars, Finnish Water Company and Carlsberg Breweries (Sinebrychoff). Also PACKLAB. students ...Read More
A week after an egg workshop where the students had a blast engaging in teamwork and creating weird and whacky egg-landing contraptions, first year students Nikolo Kerimov and Ilari Laitinen participated in The Red Bull Gravity Challenge held at Arcada ...Read More
Katri Ollila worked in partnership with Masia during June and July designing packaging for wine company Viinitalo Oy, the project will continue later this year. Congratulations to Katri who was also been successful in finding a new job as a ...Read More
Anni Nykänen and Ville Kolppo both worked as packaging/product designers at Stora Enso over the summer. Their main role was drawing and designing solutions for corrugated packaging. They both worked on the Paulig account designing and presenting concepts for the ...Read More
Vilma Wallinmaa worked for a ecological product fashion brand Globe Hope that sells all their products around the world. Designing prints, promotional material and gift concepts for other brand owners such Nokia and PAM. Vilma hopes to work there after ...Read More
Markus Toivanen has been working for DMP (Digital Media Partners) during August with some success. Markus designed structural retail point of sale and other visual merchandising marketing material for retailers in Helsinki (notable was the Nike store). Markus said he ...Read More
Jetsetting Monika Osinska left Finland early this summer and has been working for TANGO/ TWBA design consultancy (Brussels office) and is now studying in Japan for the next six months on exchange. Read More
Juho Viironen & Thomas Åkerfelt do it again! The same concept but different materials and graphics. The talented duo have entered one concept into three different competitions and have already won two major packaging design awards. They came first in ...Read More
Packlab has a new arrival a beautiful bouncing baby boy. On the date Boris Becker, Charles de Gaulle and Ville Valo were born Väinö Valtteri Tenhunen aka Don Emil saw the light of the day. The proud parents Nina Wikberg ...Read More
Congrats to Ingrida Liepyte for getting recent employment with Salovaara & Salonen Design Studio based in Turku. We wish her all the best. Read More
Maritta Toivala is working at Skandaali Leo Burnett (Pakkaamo Department) in Helsinki as a Junior Designer, working on some of the leading Finnish consumer brands. She is currently finishing her final work which involves working for a leading Finnish dairy ...Read More
Monika Osinska gained valuable experience in London's(UK) office and Warsaw's (Poland) office working for SiebertHead Brand Design Consultancy. Monika worked as part of a team on some of the largest consumer packaging brands in Europe and Russia. She decribes the ...Read More
Packlab student Per-Oskar Grönroos gets married on the 1st September 07 to the love of his life Sofia Joenpelto. The Packlab department would like to wishes all the best of luck for the future to the happy couple.... and of ...Read More
Ingrida Liepyte comes back from her work experience at Coors Brewers Graphic Studio in the UK. Ingrida said she had a great time and learnt a lot form more experienced designers in the in-house design team based in Burton-on-trent. She was ...Read More
