Designed To Promote The National Level

The success of Finnish design must be placed in the context of that Finland treid to find its position in the polarization of political and economic to judge. Finland experienced several wars, since the beginning of the 20th century Finnish design had developed not in the pure manner. If the tour exhibition Design in Scandinavia (1954-1957) in North American was the first time the government enter into the Finnish design history, Design Year 2005 which happened 50 years later was the government under guidance of the Design 2005 program to promote the development of Finnish design industry. From the perspective of government level to promote the design to study the Finnish design history, you can see there were two historical period when the government used the their decision to affect the Finnish design—after World WarⅡand after 2000 when pubulished the Design 2005.I started my research from a series of major international design exhibitions after World WarⅡ, and analysed the special significance of this exhibitions for Finland. Then from the Finland political background, international relationship, national mentality etc to analysed the Finnish government was with the aid of design exhibitions to try to prove that Finland served as a cultural identity had deep-seated factors. By the end of the 20th century, with the Design 2005 program drawn up, the Finnish government became a leading role in Finnish design development again. Combined with the Finnish national mentality and political background, this paper will interpret the characteristics of the design policy framework. And the paper argued that the design promotion at the government level was the decision-makers implemented a series of measures. It permeated into the decision-makers, policy implementers, and the interest groups who were in the specific historical period linked of interest-oriented, such interest will be in large part effected the trend of this period. This paper will further analyze the internal logic between the design promotion at the government level and design development, the design of national policies on the impact of Finnish design. Other countries and regions can learned what design promotion experience of from Finland...