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Autumn 2023

Unmethod publishes for the web, providing web applications and editorial services for creative enterprise, large and small.

Read more about our services; view selected work; or take contact.

Our Services

Unmethod offers diverse web publishing software, hardware and services, from site design and architecture, to editorial creation and amplification, to enterprise grade e-commerce, resource planning and hosting solutions. Our work is based on an integrated, open source approach that aims to give our clients a thorough understanding of, and complete ownership over, their content and related data. Open, interconnected data matter, now more than ever.

We also offer editorial services, for all your English language content needs. Provide us with a first draft of your English language copy, and Unmethod will do the rest — using a rigorous research and drafting process, we transform rough concepts into concise and logically continuous narratives. Clear, original language matters, now more than ever.

Niko Luoma — Calculus #1 (2011)

Selected Work

Since 2008, we have collaborated with a long-standing and eclectic group of clients who work in various fields, including furniture by Poiat, Nikari, Hakola and LumoKids; carpets by Finarte, Sera Helsinki and Woven Works; candles by Desico; all things paper by Papershop; Japanese goods and sundries by Common; leather bags by Lumi Accessories; advanced fiber tech by Eagle Filters Group; houses and apartments by Sajucon; art works by Niko Luoma, Visa Norros, Santeri Tuori and Matti Kujasalo (forthcoming).

We also provide assorted editorial and web services for larger corporations and non-governmental organizations, including Marimekko and the Finnish Refugee Council.

Notations

9-9-2023

Thinking in blocks, no. 3: the fourth block of Manfred Laber’s Zeitpyramide was installed today. One block of the pyramid will be installed every 10 years until the work’s eventual completion in 3183.

6-9-2023

Thinking in blocks, no.2: Adeline Harris’s tumbling block quilt, 1856. “She sent small diamond-shaped pieces of white silk worldwide to people she esteemed as the most important figures of her day, asking each to sign the silk and return it to her. By the time the signatures were all returned and ready to be stitched into a…quilt, Adeline had amassed an astonishing collection of autographs.”

24-8-2023

Thinking in blocks, no. 1: the world’s longest ultra-marathon event, the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence Race, begins next week. It is a 52-day, 3,100-mile race around a single block in Queens, NYC.

Maps & Contacts

Helsinki

unmethod@gmail.com
+358 44 084 0089

Vuorimiehenkatu 23B
Helsinki 00140
Finland

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Washington, D.C.

unmethod@gmail.com
+1 415 670 9660

3901 Cathedral Avenue
Washington D.C., 20016
United States

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