Harri Koskinen was born in Finland in 1970. His furniture and versatile design objects have aroused great international interest. Koskinen strives to find solutions that are innovative for both the consumer and producer. One example of this is his great success, Block Lamp. Apart from his collaboration with iittala, Koskinen works with companies like Issey Miyake and Schmidinger Modul. He was recently named young designer of the year in Finland.