HANNU KUUKKANEN
Some of Hannu Kuukkanen's award winning designs Web-site "Photonet"; the photo archieve of the
photographer Matti A. Pitkänen, won the "Best of Europe" award of
the European On Line (EOL) in 14.2.1997.
Digital Background
Kuukkanen began the digital design in1982, with PCs, before the MACs
arrived as graphic work stations in Finland. Kuukkanen started in InvisorSystems
as a designer of computer generated products: slides, overhead material
and computer generated animation. In 1984 Kuukkanen visited in the MG-school
as a lecturer. When he told, that the time is near for them to work by
computers, they didn't like this prophesy at all. Something similar had
happened before when the repro cameras came into advertising agencies
and was to happen also some years later. In 1993 came the Mosaic browser
and opened the possibilities of Internet graphics. Kuukkanen assisted
the first Web Publisher Mofile Place in Finland and started professional
web page designing. The first customers were Paulig with its popular Coffee
Recipes and Arctia Partners hotels with their room booking Web pages.
Also the world famous finish Rock'n Roll band, Leningrad Cowboys, started
Web pages with the assistance of Kuukkanen in Mofile. Customers: Fazer
Bakeries, Isku Oy furniture, Hoas, Photonet (European On line's the Best
of Europe 97), Promicro Oy, Victor Ek Oy, Leipätiedotus Ry, Eke Electronics
and several others.
Kuukkanen works at the moment in VTT as
the senior research scientist. Hannu has been the chairman of the OtaDigi
content work group from the year 2003.
Roots in Advertising Agencies
Hannu Kuukkanen graduated inUniversity of
Industrial Arts Helsinki (UIAH) now part of Aalto yliopisto in1978. He made his final report about the
Reproduction of Colour. He started as graphic designer in 1971 and was
hired as AD in Erva Latvala Oy in 1973. Kuukkanen has done also a long
day as a lecturer in the Web design and DTP colour handling. During the
first years of the Web in Finland Kuukkanen wrote articles and was interviewed
by several Magazines and papers: Fakta 3/95, Kauppalehti 30.3.95, Optio
1/95, Tietopalvelu-uutiset 2/95 among others. Lectures and teaching: Tieto
95 (WWW-graphics), TechNet seminar -95 (WWW-advertising and marketing),
The Association of Finnish Advertising Agencies (MTL) "Aamutori" (WWW-marketing
cases). Participating MTL's EU funded
Adfora -project in 98 - 99. In UIAH as a part time lecturer of the electronic
publishing and as a tutor in EU projects around the hypermedia, including
also lectures in the Colour handling in DTP. Marketing Institute: tutoring
web-cases in -96 and MG school, a series of lectures in web page design
98 - 99.For the businesses: The Central Bank of Finland, a lecture in
the DTP-colour handling, and Webmaster seminar-96 (/HPV).
Kuntaliitto, a lecture for webmasters and web designers in 98, 99 (www-graphics),
Työterveyslaitos (WWW-webmaster seminar lecture in WWW-graphics)-95
Kuukkanen has been with in the development of the Finnish Semantic Web
from the year 2000 participating as the lecture in Semantic
Web Kick-Off in Finland 2.11.2001
Articles in the Finnish WIKI-pedia:
Viljo
Kuukkanen, Toivo
J. Kuukkanen
Lasse
Raustela
Mourits
Rasmussen
Osmo Pasanen
Peni Pilve