Pekka Keinänen

Profile avatar
Co-founder
Helsinki | FI

Skills

No information

Interests

Music
Travelling
Trekking

Industries

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outdoor
Run
Skate
Snow
View all
HomeSummaryActivityProjectsWork experienceEducation historyConnectionsCompanies

In my own words

Pekka

Footwear designer with wide experience of product development and quality control.

I have worked years as footwear designer / developer travelling for production setups and quality control to central and southern Europe, Malaysia and China. I have also been designing freelance for years. Skateboarding since mid eighties and closely seeing skating and streetwear culture evolve during 30+ years is a good background for development of lifestyle products.

Strengths:

Development of stylish and inventive constructions,

BA degree of footwear design, Construction and material testing / development, Crafting prototype shoes by hand, Quality control at production lines, Wide design experience (lifestyle sneakers, skate shoes, orienteering shoes, desert boots, winter footwear with spikes, safety footwear, outsoles for hunting and trekking, free run footwear…),

Good eye for what’s next (in footwear)

Trajectory

Sep 2017 — Now
Co-founder · Tarvas Footwear
Design / production / brand management
Jul 2015 — Sep 2017
Freelance designer · Freelance
Designing and developing footwear for various purposes (lifestyle, hunting, etc.)
Feb 2008 — Jun 2015
Footwear designer / developer · Nokian Footwear
-See summary-
Feb 2005 — Feb 2008
Freelance · Freelance
Designing footwear for various purposes

Activity

Education history

Hamk University of Applied Sciences logo

Hamk University of Applied Sciences

BA | 2002 - 2006

Lyseonpuiston lukio logo

Lyseonpuiston lukio

A level | 1993 - 1996

Rovala logo

Rovala

Audio visual studies | 1998 - 1999

Connections

Renan Maurice profile background
Renan Maurice profile photo

Renan Maurice

Marketing Executive
Self-employed

View all