People Made
‘People Made’ celebrates the 20th anniversary of the world’s first mass-market GSM phone (the Nokia 1011) and looks forward to the next 20 years. Arranged by the Nokia Design and Brand studios, it’s a free to the public exhibition that brings the compelling inside story of Nokia design — past, present and future — dramatically to life.
Spanning the first floor of the Design Museum in London, three discrete sections offer different perspectives and experiences.
An immersive statistics room, featuring mesmeric imagery shows the enormous scale and reach of the brand, vividly demonstrating how Nokia positively affects millions of peoples’ lives. Another powerful audio-visual space sees designers taking a speculative look at Nokia’s role in shaping peoples’ lives and advancing design.
And finally, the flowing main space celebrates the products themselves, vividly telling the stories of the most iconic and influential Nokia phones. An intriguing mix of exhibits and information reveal how Nokia has continually redefined the possible and captured the zeitgeist.
Using key products to mark moments in time, the visual narrative tells how Nokia has steadily influenced the way people interact and connect, and how Nokia’s design studio has grappled with the limits of materials, forms and interaction to create small objects of immense practicality and understated beauty.
‘People Made’ is a preview of a larger exhibition on Nokia Design to be held next year in Helsinki, Finland celebrating Helsinki as World Design Capital 2012.
People Made - Nokia products that changed the world
28 October - 2 November 2011
Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1
Entrance free
By Prasenjit Bist on Oct 29, 2011 4:54 PM
Its amazing Nokia so many old phones so many old memories great to see the lovely N95, 7650 but was expecting to see N8 too. Love u NOKIA so many memories so many really makes me crazy all the best to every one NOKIA keep connecting us with the human technologies I am proud of being a NOKIA user.
By @kingramo81 on Oct 30, 2011 9:52 PM
This was a wonderful presentation, charting the most important Nokia phones throughout the last 20 years. It brought back so many memories. I do wish that they would have more handsets. There is a video section with some of the designers of the Nokia products and I have to say that was very enjoyable and enlightening to hear their perspective of designing handsets for Nokia, working for Nokia and what the future for Nokia is and where they feel the mobile industry is going. Anyone who has a love/history of buying handsets should take the time out to view the show. Also having the chance to play with a live demo of the new Nokia handset was a good touch.