Sanna Nykänen
Graphic Design & Art Direction


Contact
Instagram



Education

Visual Communication Design MA
Aalto University
2024-

University of Fine Arts in Poznań
Exchange semester 
2026

Visual Communication Design BA
Aalto University
2020-2023

   
01.UDD Sports

2024-

Visual Identity

+ Visual Identity
+ Logo
+ Graphic Design
+ Motion Design
Team

Photo & VideoAlbert Romppainen
Studio Photo 
Yana Oksanen
Styling
Karina Mamadalieva


 

 
Videos: Albert Romppainen


                               



 










 



02.Fantasy Football Magazine 

Issue #1 & Issue #2
English
2023 & 2025
Publication Design

ISSN: 2984-0937290  x 240 mm
112 Pages
4/4 CMYK Offset,
Sewn & glue bound
Team

Founder & editor in chief 
Ilmari Pylvänäinen
AD & graphic designer
Sanna Nykänen
Writer & curator
Alva Strang
Editor & Proof reading
Kate Ruck
Photography
Ronja Siitonen
Custom font
Emese Veszely


Fantasy Football Magazine is an annual magazine that is dedicated to international contemporary visual arts.













03.Tuli & Savu

Nihil Inherit ry
Finnish
2022
Publication Design

ISSN: 1239-9213150 x 245 mm

Designed together with 
Sofia Kyllönen


 










04.Lucky Potato under the bed

2024


Exhibition

Asbestos Art Space
Duo Show with 
Lyy Raitala

I woke up and picked up a potato from under the bed. I looked at it and it was unpeeled; the new year started with good financial luck. Days filled with crossword puzzles and the luxury of garden-variety that emerged from aimlessness, uselessness, and a generous amount of time. Straight lines after each other, disappearing behind the horizon. I still measure distance with potato fields. The new terrace is ⅙ . It was finally time to start sunbathing by the infinity pools filled with soil and dream of the productivity that only happens under the ground.
In the duo show ‘Lucky potato under the bed’ Sanna Nykänen and Lyy Raitala look at the potato as a symbol for luxury, rest, and ease. The exhibition considers how the potato-driven life of previous generations was run on intensive physical labor, and how automation introduced leisure and luxury to that life. The simplicity of the potato remains.
 
 








05.Tapiola Skateboarding Competition

2025
Poster

420 × 594 mm



Poster design for a skateboarding competition in Tapiola, Espoo, created in collaboration with local youth skateboarders using their submitted drawings and artwork.