Selection of designs works that include graphic and industrial products, web designs and objects.
DEAD ARCHITECTS CALENDAR D A C
Type: Concept & Graphic Design
Client: pro bono
Size: DIN A3 vertical (420 x 297 mm), 15 pages
Location: Printed in Germany
Status: Designed in 2021, published in 2024
Team: Juhani Karanka & Dave Garbot
Publisher: FINGERPRINT c/o Studio Karanka
Website: www.deadarchitectscalendar.com
Little Research and Design project in remembering interesting architects who have challenged the paradigm of their time and circumstances, and created something unique for us to admire and wonder. The architects' dates of deaths are in focus and give rhythm throughout the 12-months of the year. You can celebrate your favourite architect by raising a glass in memory of his or hers achievements, or see who passed away on your birthday. The research is published as an A3-sized, verticall wall calendar with text and colour images. Note: This is a charity calendar for the benefit of little heart patients at the local hospital. The collected sums will be used to purchase toys for the kids recovering from heart surgery at the hospital ward, and to boost up their mood for a healthy future.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FIN-GER FINNISH-GERMAN CONCEPT
STORE
Type: Webdesign
Client: FIN-GER GbR
Size: 800 px wide, html-coded
Location: Internet
Status: Designed in 2014, online 2014-2023, closed in
2023
Design: Juhani Karanka
Website: www.fin-ger.com & www.fin-ger.de
Webdesign, content production, photography and administration of the official FIN-GER Finnish-German Concept Store website in Würzburg, Germany. The website, and all the images and texts published, were made in-house in three languages; Finnish, German and English.
TRUE STORIES
Type: Design
Client: Jäcklein Architekten / EGM
Size: Four various sized installations
Location: EGM - Egbert
Gymnasium Münsterschwarzach
Status: Designed in 2021, completed 2023
Design: Co-operation between architect Matthias Braun &
Studio Karanka
Places for seating at a school.
STEELE
Type: Design
Client: Jewish Community
Size: 200 x 80 x 20 cm
Location: Kaiserstraße, Würzburg
Status: Designed in 2017, completed 2018
Design: Co-operation between architect Matthias Braun &
Studio Karanka
Infosteele for the memory of the former Jewish shopkeepers on the Kaiserstraße and Kaisergärtchen with its fabulous Magnolia trees.
MONOLITH - AMURINLINNA TOWER ENTRANCE AREA &
STAIRWAY
Type: Renovation of the entrance, foyer and stairway of
1950s residential building by architect Erik
Bryggman
Client: VVO Amurinlinna Housing Estate
Site: Existing 14-storey residential building with 144
apartments
Size: Entrance 15 m2 + Foyer 60 m2 + Stairway 560
m2
Location: Hämeenpuisto 12, Tampere, Finland
Status: Comissioned, designed and completed 2000
Team: Atelier Karanka & Tamminen, A-Insinöörit Oy
(structural design)
This demanding renovation of the existing 1950s residential building by architect Erik Bryggman was done through research into the original ideas and drawings of the famous architect, and of the circumstances and requirements of the contemporary construction site. The chosen materials, colours and detailing followed the 1950s atmosphere as much as possible, ranging from copper, Palisander wood to glass blocks. The new electronic addressing system, for 144 apartments, was intergrated inside a single, massive Kuru-granite which was placed on its own foundation. The residents gave it a nickname Monoliitti - like the black Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 A Space Odyssey.
IFLA
Type: Travelling exhibition
Client: IFLA - International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions
Site: Multiple locations in Finland and Sweden
Size: Exhibition area 12 m2
Location: Main Library METSO, Tampere, Finland (featured in
the photograph above)
Status: Comissioned, designed and completed 1990
Team: Juhani Karanka / Studio Karanka & Juha Malm
IFLA travelling exhibition presenting Finnish library architecture. All made out of recycled, corrugated cardboard.