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MAIJA JÄRVINIEMI

Textile pro and visual designer at your service :-)

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All
woven objects
future crafts
immaterial

Spiritual Lure

Sensible Creatures

Midsummer Oddities

Fresh Meat

Pendant Series

Soundshrooms

Green Tea Spell

Shimmer Fuel

Roadkill

Bog hole

Reposet

Short film for Aalto Fashion

KatzieWormzies

Machina Animata

Not a matter of taste

© 2025 Maija Järviniemi. All rights reserved

I am

A contemporary designer working with advanced textile design, funky visuals and creative concept development.

My expressive, yet detail and function-oriented practice is often steered by surprise, surrealism and intuition. Whether it's interior textiles, illustrations or digital design I aim to craft well-thought, sensory pleasing experiences.

Currently pursuing master studies in New Media at Aalto University, Finland. Always open for new commissions - let's work together!

Love, Maija

get in touch

maija@jarviniemi.fi

find me

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Where I learned

2024-Present Aalto University | Master's Degree (MA)

New Media, Department of Art and Media

2015-2019 Aalto University | Master's Degree (MA)

Major in Fashion, Collection and Textile Design, Department of Design

Minor in Digital Animation and Storytelling, "Pixstories", Department of Media

2014 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) | Exchange studies

Textiles, Department of Fine Art

Animation, Department of Film/Video/Animation

2011-2015 Aalto University | Bachelor's Degree (BA)

Textile Art and Design, Department of Design

Where I collaborated

2020-Present Board member & Co-Founder | Softislab ry

2018-Present Freelance Textile Designer, AD | Clients:

KONE Oyj

Lapuan Kankurit Oy

Vanelli Textile

Carpet Syvänen

Aalto University

STEAKS Contact Wear

MIUN Design Studio

VIRTA jewellery studio

2017 Product Development Intern, Weaving Department | TextielLab in Tilburg

2016 Head of Visual Identity and Moving Image | TEKSTIILI16 Exhibition, Aalto University

2015-2018 Various positions | Aalto University:

2018 Research Assistant, CHEMARTS

2017 Short Film Concept and Creation for Functional Clothing & Materials Exhibition

2017 Course Assistant, Footwear Course in Collaboration with VF Corporation

2015 Research Assistant, CHEMARTS

2015-2016 Teaching Assistant, Jacquard and Weaving

2013 Internship | Textile Artist Aino Favén

Some showing off

2021 UNSTABLE DESIGN LAB | ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado

Shortlisted Applicant for Experimental Weaving Residency 2022

2021 BLOOM! Youth Exhibition: Lokal Gallery, Helsinki

Roadkill & Bog Hole, woven textile sculptures

2019 NEW YORK TEXTILE MONTH: Talent! Exhibition

Finalist in the Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize | Master Thesis Work: Sensible Creatures

2017 CHEONGJU INTERNATIONAL CRAFT BIENNAL: Visioning Future through Craft and Design, Cheongju, South Korea

Machina Animata - Spatial animation | TEKSTIILI16-exhibition

2017 DESIGN MUSEUM: Enter and Encounter Exhibition, Helsinki

Not a Matter of Taste - a material examination of an edible cellulose composite

2016 DUBAI DESIGN WEEK: Global Grad Show

Not a Matter of Taste - a material examination of an edible cellulose composite

2015 PROTOSHOP: Habitare Design and Furniture Fair, Helsinki Design Week

REPOSET - hand-woven alpaca blanket

2013 INTERNATIONAL WEAVING ART EXHIBITION: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing

MAN-MADE textile collection

2012 KAIKU ETHICAL PRINT COMPETITION: 1st place, Käsikynkkää print