Venla Elonsalo

Venla Elonsalo was one of the twenty-four finalists in the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize. The competition received more than 330 entries of textile design-related BA and MA graduate work from eduational design institutes around the world.

The Metex Prize is awarded for excellence in master’s thesis work done in collaboration with a technology company or to promote the significance and use of design and art in Finnish industry. Each year, the fund awards a prize of 5,000 euros for an outstanding master's thesis by a student graduating from Aalto University. This year, the Metex Prize will exceptionally be awarded to two master's theses. The Metex Fund, which promotes Finnish industries, operates as part of the Technology Industry 100th Anniversary Foundation.<br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b>Dario Aguet</b>’s master’s thesis, <i>Rethinking Portable Bluetooth Speakers: Disassemblability and Reparability in Product Design</i>, Contemporary Design MA Major, Supervisor:<b> Simo Puintila</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b>Venla Elonsalo’</b>s master’s thesis <i>I weave dogs and clothes</i>:<i> Digital technologies for woven textile-form design , </i>Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design MA Major. Supervisor <b>Maarit Salolainen </b>advisors:<b> </b>Holly McQuillan (Delft University),<b> Maija Fagerlund.</b></p>