Helsinki Design Week has been organized annually every September since 2005. With a festival programme of around 250 events every year, it is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Helsinki Design Week is produced by Luovi Productions Ltd, founded in 1995 by Kari Korkman.
To finish off its tenth anniversary celebrations in 2014, Helsinki Design Week took a leap into operating all-year-round by launching a new online publication, Helsinki Design Weekly. There was a need to create a platform for design discussion that was missing from Finland and to highlight Finnish design throughout the year.