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MAIJA JÄRVINIEMI

Textile pro and visual designer at your service :-)

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woven objects
future crafts
immaterial

Pendant Series

Soundshrooms

Short film for Aalto Fashion

Machina Animata

© 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