Digital archive collections

University of Art and Design

Photo collection of the University of Art and Design documenting the activities, people, locations and premises of the University and its predecessors, including images of student works, exhibitions, events, excursions and events.

• Date range: 1880-2009
• Extent: 3000
• Content: b/w prints, colour prints
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY 4.0, Public Domain, and some usable subject to permission

Business

Photo collection of the Helsinki School of Economics documenting the activities, people, locations and premises of the business school.

• Date range: 1940-1990
• Extent: 1000
• Content: b/w prints, colour prints
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY 4.0.

Technology

Photo collection of the University of Technology documenting the activities, people, locations and premises of the University and its predecessors.

• Date range: 1850-
• Extent: 3000
• Content: b/w prints, colour prints
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY 4.0, Public Domain, and some usable subject to permission

Architecture measurement drawings

Aalto University’s and its predecessor University of Technology’s architecture teaching has for over hundred years included the tradition of measurement drawing. From 1907 to 2014 it was compulsory to prepare a measurement drawing of a significant old building as part of an architect’s education. In early decades of 1900 drawings were made of medieval churches, later there has been concentration on wooden architecture.

• Date range: 1868 – 2016
• Extent: 5000 digitized drawings
• Content: Ink and pencil drawings, some water colours
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC 4.0, Public Domain

Descriptive geometry and perspective studies

Course exercises and competition works in in descriptive geometry which was studied by nearly all technology students until 1960s. Students of land survey and architects also took classes in perspective drawing. The collection has been used in teaching until mid 1960s

• Date range: 1930-1960
• Extent: Approx. 1000, 60 samples available digitally
• Content: Ink drawings, water colours
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Ceramics and glass art

The collection consists of exercises and diploma works prepared in the teaching of ceramics and glass. The collection has been used as a pedagogical archive documenting the development of teaching in the field including teaching materials, techniques and firing temperatures, glazing experiments and decoration methods. Approx. 5% of the objects have been prepared by students of of glass design.

• Date range: 1963 -
• Extent: Approx. 3500 objects, 800 available digitally
• Content: Ceramic and glass objects
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Industrial design

The collection contains student works from the industrial design programme including prototypes, models and drawings of technical appliances, utensils and vehicles. The collection also includes images from exhibitions, excursions, teaching spaces and studying.

• Date range: 1960-1990
• Extent: Approx. 2700
• Content: Colour slides
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Industrial textile design and textile art

Course work and exercises in industrial textile design, such as knitted fabrics, pattern designs for clothing and interior fabrics, designs for printed textiles and material experiments.

• Date range: 1970-2004
• Extent: Approx. 200 works, 10 samples available digitally
• Content: Printed, knitted and woven textiles and textile sketches
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Composition drawings

Student works from composition drawing class include ornament and decorative designs, interiors and furniture, textiles and clothing design, typography and illustrations. The collections include also drawings of museum objects and competition entries from various drawing competitions where students participated.

• Date range: 1906-1970
• Extent: approx. 2000 images
• Content: hand-drawn drawings, pencil, ink, watercolour
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Building technlogy

Exercises in building technology from the department of architecture. Consists of images of small scale models, group work and students working methods.

• Date range: 1990-2000
• Extent: approx. 2000 works
• Content: digitised colour slides
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC 4.0

Costume and fashion design

Costumes designed and made by students, many being competitions entries for international competitions (Concours International des Jeunes Créateurs de Mode 1989-1991, IWS 1985, Igedo 1992, St. Gallen 1981-1982) and course exercises or diploma projects.

• Date range: 1970-2010
• Extent: approx. 50 costumes
• Content: Costumes
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Photography art

The collection of course work and final projects contains an extensive collection of student works in photography. The collection provides a rich overview to research of the teaching, techniques and practices of photography. The collection also contains a limited amount of photography course work from the department of Art Education.

• Date range: 1970-1990
• Extent: (10 000) 1100 available digitally
• Content: b/w prints, colour prints, polaroids, negatives, slide positives
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses of student works subject to permission.

Urban planning

The collection contains student and diploma works, and reproduced images such as maps and original photographs of residential areas and city scapes used in teaching.

• Date range: 1960-1980
• Extent: (38 000), 2000 available digitally
• Content: slide positives
• Permissions: Subject to permission

Architecture

Images of the history of architecture arranged in themes from ancient to urban architecture, from castels to interiors and different architectural styles and collections by architect. The collection contains reproduced images, original photographs and ready-made teaching materials from Finland and abroad.

• Date range: approx. 1880-2000
• Extent:  45 000
• Content: digitised slide positives
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC 4.0, some subject to permission

Architecture catalogue

The image collection of the Department of Architecture contains a card catalogue of photographs and prints arranged by architect name. The images were held in a wooden filing cabinet, numbered 1-5, (Aa-VÖ).

• Date range: approx. 1930-1940
• Extent:  2400
• Content: photographs, prints
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY 4.0

Art and design

Images used in arts teaching at the University of Art and Design containing a variety of topics of cultural and art history.

• Extent:  1000
• Content: digitised slide positives
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC 4.0, some subject to permission

Building technology

Images used in teaching, student works and projects, excursions and inventories.

• Date range: 1950-2000
• Extent: (20 000), 6000 available digitally
• Content: digitised slide positives
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC 4.0

Kaj Franck, lecture slides in composition and style theory

Kaj Franck taught composition drawing and style theory from 1945 at the School of Industrial Arts. Franck collected and thematically arranged this slide collection that has been used in the teaching of the course. The collection includes images from a variety of sources: School's own image materials, photographs taken by Franck, press and advertising materials from other sources.

• Date range: 1940-1970
• Extent: 1600
• Content: digitised slide positives
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC 4.0

• Date range: late 1800 - early 1900
• Extent: 50
• Content: watercolours, drawings
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: Public Domain

• Date range: late 1800 - early 1900
• Extent: 34
• Content: watercolours, drawings
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY, Public Domain

• Date range: 1960-2000
• Extent: approx. 80
• Content:digital images
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC

• Date range: approx. 1970s
• Extent: 6 sample images in Finna
• Content: photographs, prints, audio tapes
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses subject to permission.

• Date range: approx. 1970s
• Extent: 140 sample images of SVYP-project at Eno
• Content: photographs, prints, audio tapes
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses subject to permission.

• Date range: 1940-1950
• Extent: 50 sample images in Finna
• Content: pencil, ink drawings, watercolours
• Permissions: Non-commercial use in learning and research permissible, other uses subject to permission.

• Date range: 1880-1910
• Extent: approx. 300
• Content: pencil, ink drawings, watercolours
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: Public Domain

• Date range: 1950-1980
• Extent: approx. 1600
• Content: digitised slide positives
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisences: CC-BY-NC

University of Technology

Helsinki School of Economics

University of Art and Design

• Date range: 1885-2004

• Date range: 1950-2004

• Date range: 1890-1985

Finnish Society of Arts and Crafts

• Date range: 1905-1915, 1960-1984

Museum object collection

Teaching and research instruments used mainly at the University of Technology from laboratories of physics, paper and cellulose technology, geology and geophysics as well as measurement instruments used in geological survey, construction and machine engineering.

• Date range: 1900-1980
• Extent: 700 objects
• Content: Teaching and research instruments
• Permissions: Usable with Creative Commons-lisence CC-BY