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Janne Kyttanen

Janne Kyttanen was born 1974 in Hameenlinna, Finland. He started his industrial design studies at the Escola De Disseny, Elisave in Barcelona -96. He then moved to The Netherlands to continue his studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He graduated in the spring 2000 from the same Academy.

Right after his graduation he was offered a position as a freelance designer and 3D visualizer at one of the leading industrial design bureaus in The Netherlands, SDA. During his 2 year stay at SDA, he was involved with work for clients in the banking, public transport, aviation, consumer electronics and cosmetics industries.

During his studies Janne proved the potential of using Rapid Prototyping techniques as manufacturing tools and introduced a line of Augmented Reality based Rapid Manufactured products as his thesis for graduation. The project was sponsored by the Human Interface Laboratory, of the University Of Washington and the European leader in Rapid Prototyping, Materialise.

At the Salone Internationale Del Mobile 2003 in Milan, for Freedom Of Creation, Janne designed the first animated 3-Dimensionally printable lights as well as the first economical series of lights produced in this manner. For Milan he also co-designed a variety of products with Jiri Evenhuis using the patent pending 3-Dimensionally printable textiles.