Muuto strives to expand the Scandanavian design tradition with the new and original perspectives. In fact, the name Muuto, inspired by the Finnish word 'muutos,' translates to 'new perspective.' For Muuto, good design starts with the person. They hand-pick the brightest design talent in Scandanavia and give them the freedom to express their individual story through everyday objects. Some want to alter the world, others find passion in color and shape, and other still draw deeply from personal experience.

Finnish designer Harri Koskiken (1970– ) rose to prominence in the mid-nineties with his award-winning Block Lamp, an industrial lighting piece consisting of a lone light bulb encased within twin acrylic bricks. His Cosy lamp for Muuto and bent-plywood Fatty containers are but two standouts of the past decade.

John Astbury, Bengt Brummer, and Karin Wallenbeck are three product designers who met while studying for their master's degree of Konstfack in Stockholm. They work together under the name WHATSWHAT as well as individually outside of the collective, and their projects include products, furniture, interior, and culinary design. Notably, they received the Muuto Talent Award in 2010 and the Elle Interior Design Award in 2012.

Cecilie Manz is a Danish designer who lives and works in Copenhagen. Manz studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – The School of Design and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki before founding her own studio in 1998. Manz designs furniture, glassware, lamps, and other housewares. She believes that every product she designs and every project she is involved with represents a small piece within a big, ongoing story, offering continuity through all of her work. Manz works with many celebrated design brands including Fritz Hansen, B&O, Kähler, Muuto, and others.

Form Us With Love is an internationally acclaimed design studio from Stockholm working with brands like ateljé Lyktan, FontanaArte, Cappellini, DePadova, Muuto, Design House Sthlm and One Nordic Furniture Company. FUWL was started in 2005 by John Löfgren, Jonas Pettersson, and Petrus Palmér. They met studying Product Design at Kalmar University, in Småland, a county in southern Sweden known to be the heartland of Swedish furniture manufacturing. The studio aims to challenge the conventional through design initiatives.

Andreas Engesvik has a Bachelors degree in Art History from the University of Bergen Norway and went on to study Design at the National College of Art and Design. He graduated with a Masters degree in Design and founded Norway Says in the same year. After 6 successful years, as a company, Andreas Engesvik went solo and founded his new studio Andreas Engesvik, Oslo. His studio is working in various fields of design ranging from furniture and tableware to industrial design for various international clients such as: Iittala, Muuto, Ligne Roset, and Asplund.

Benjamin Lund is a young Copenhagen based photographer who currently works as Muuto’s in-house professional photographer, as well as pursuing his own freelance projects. In true Scandinavian style, Benjamin’s mission is to keep his compositions as real and unpretentious as possible. He is subsequently always on the lookout for great natural light to give a real honesty to both his lifestyle and portrait images. Already at a young age, Benjamin has established himself as powerful new force in the Nordic photography scene and his portraits of leading Danish politicians and cultural figures in particular have made him highly sought after. www.benjaminlund.dk

Berlin-based design duo David Geckeler and Frank Michels display a sensibility and savvy well beyond their age. The pair, who met at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, founded their studio in 2013 in a bid to fuse Geckeler’s feel for engineering and technology with Michels’s intuition for narrative and simple constructions. “We fight through complicated questions and different positions to ultimately end up with a fruitful solution,” says Michels, referring to the creative dialogue that forms the base for their collaboration. Their first joint discourse includes the Nerd chair and barstool for Muuto, while more recent creative output has instantiated in designs that are “an interplay between graphic and geometric elements by playing with volumes confined by thinner boundaries.” Ossa, a stackable storage system that resembles a pile of moving boxes, was presented at Milan’s Salone Satellite 2014 and is expected to be in production shortly. For 2015, look for a set of chairs and a collection of tableware.