In 1875, when Finland was still under Russian rule. A group of influential people in the field of culture and industry founded The Finnish Society of Crafts and Design. At the beginning, the society worked together with the Finnish Fine Arts Association to manage a museum and an industrial art school.

In 1965, the school was nationalized by the Finnish government and later became the present University of Art and Design Helsinki. After the separation of the school and the museum, the association began to change its direction. At the end of the 1980s, a new organization with an international name, Design Forum Finland, was founded, whose core business is the promotion of Finnish design among small and medium-sized enterprises. Its activities mainly include exhibitions, competitions and publications in Finland and abroad.

The Finnish Design Forum strives to To establish a relationship between designers and industries and enterprises that need design services, and also to provide enterprises with some specific solutions to enhance the innovation capacity of enterprises and thus gain more profit margin. In order to promote the export of design products, the Finnish Design Forum organizes international projects that bring together people from companies and individual designers to launch new products.

DesignForum: Finnish Design Exchange Forum CEO of Miguel The CEO of the Forum is Mikko Mikko Kalhama, CEO of the Finnish Design Forum, said: "The Finnish Design Forum works on many levels.

One, committed to Finland, mainly with Finnish domestic enterprises, but also with various government agencies in Finland, like the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Trade and We also cooperate with various government agencies in Finland, such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Trade and Industry and other national ministries, to influence or participate in the formulation of national strategies and policies related to design; we also work closely with many design schools in Finland to establish a close design alliance.

Secondly, on an international scale, we organize various design events, design forums, and publish a lot of information about Finnish design, and we also cooperate with various design organizations and We also cooperate with various design organizations and institutions in the world, including various design organizations in Scandinavia, often together to share some information, but also together to organize some activities."

The Finnish Design Forum regularly It publishes an annual Finnish Design Book, featuring the year's top designers and design work. The most influential award is the Young Designer of the Year award. This award will launch one or two very good young designers every year, generally in a few years into these young designers are able to become the leading figures in the Finnish design industry.

About the Finnish Design Forum The main funding we get is from the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry, and we also charge our corporate members a membership fee.

We do receive some corporate sponsorships, but these probably only account for about 20% of our funding. Our organization has been around for more than 100 years, and over those years we've invested in projects that have accumulated some funds, and we've received some financial support from some foundations."
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