Yki Nummi was one of the most significant Scandinavian lighting designers in the 1950s and 1970s. He was in many ways a talented artist and designer who designed all household goods. After the war Nummi first studied mathematics and physics at university. In addition to this, he graduated as a decorative painter at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 1950. Based on his education he had a solid theoretical knowledge of light and the relationship between light and color. Yki Nummi worked as a lighting designer at the Stockmann-Orno factory from 1950 to 1975 and designed hundreds of luminaires there. The most famous Nummi lamps in the world are the Modern Art table lamp 1955, which was also acquired by the New York Museum of Contemporary Art as a novelty in its collections in 1957, and the Seagull pendant lamp from 1960. In addition to lighting and luminaire design, Nummi was a respected color expert. He was responsible for the coloring of several major public buildings, churches and residential areas in Finland. Nummi also worked for Schildt & Hallberg's Tikkurila paint factory, where he managed the factory's coloring service from 1958 to 1975. In this role, he participated in the product development of an innovative color mixing system, which resulted in the Joker color chart. Nummi participated in many exhibitions and fairs. At the Milan Triennials in 1954 and 1957, his work was awarded a gold medal. In 1971, Yki Nummi was awarded the ProFinlandia Prize.

Katriina Nuutinen studied art and design at the Aalto University School of Art and Design and graduated with a master's degree in art in 2011. She has completed her studies at Stockholm's Konstfack in 2009 as an exchange student.

Juho Pasila is a designer by profession and specializes in furniture design. Pasila’s design is experimental, and he makes almost all the prototypes without exception himself.

Pauli Partanen is known for his unique glass items, ceramics and sculptures. Partanen's production is in numerous collections in public entities and companies, both in Finland and abroad.

Eero Aarnio is one of the great innovators of modern furniture design. The characteristics of Aarnio's design are playful and reduced forms and fresh colours. Furthermore, his design seek solutions that are economically sustainable both from the view of the owners of his design objects and production technologies.

Jukka Jokinen and Heikki Konu are internationally awarded industrial designers. The designers who graduated with Master's degrees from Aalto University's School of Arts, Design and Architecture are among the top in the new Nordic design and have been nominated for the Formex Nova award.

Professor and interior architect Yrjö Kukkapuro (born in 1933) is one of Finland’s best-known and most-awarded furniture designers, as well as a key modernist, who generally has a very functional approach to design. During his distinguished career, which began in the mid-1950s, Kukkapuro has received several important titles and prizes, including the Pro Finlandia prize in 1983, the Kaj Franck Design Prize in 1995, membership of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2002 and the Finnish State Prize in 2017.