7 Sep – 29 Oct 2017
Designer Olof Bäckström’s orange-handled Fiskars scissors will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2017. Developed in 1967, they became the world’s first scissors with plastic handles, with over a billion pairs sold world-wide over the decades that followed. In honour of the event, Fiskars has invited artists and creative individuals from around the world to participate in the Our Scissors exhibition with their inspired birthday greetings. Some of the works are inspired by the scissors as an object, some by their orange colour, and others by their function of cutting. The works will be displayed at Design Museum as part of Helsinki Design Week in September 2017.
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Heikki Salonen (FIN/UK)
JUDiTH + ROLFE (US)
Karen Bit Vejle (DEN)
Riikka Fransila (FIN)
Sarah Illenberger (GER)
Tape That Collective (GER)
Tuula Pöyhönen (FIN)
Eloise Corr Danch (US)
Minä Perhonen / Akira Minagawa (JP)
Klaus Haapaniemi (FIN/UK)
Design*Sponge / Grace Bonney (US)
Anu Halmesmaa (FIN)
Cecilie Rudolph (DEN)
Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen (DEN)
Musuta / Jopsu Ramu (FIN)
Pertti Mäkinen (FIN)
Elna Laukkanen (FIN)
Mari Savio (FIN)
Martin Bergström (SWE)
Linda Lomelino (SWE)
Katie Ermilio (US)
Laura Ljungkvist (US)
Tracy Reese (US)
Ruffled (US)
Mika Nenonen (FIN)
Mikko Vainio (FIN)
Nikari & Saas (FIN)
DJ Fiskars / Leo Karhunen (FIN)
