Oh those crazy Finnish designers

The poor Finnish designers seem to get much less coverage than their other Scandinavian brethren (like the Swedish and the Danish for instance). There's a great Finnish design site though dubbed "The Treasures of the Wasteland" that's worth checking out if your Nokia cellphone isn't enough exposure to Finnish design for you.

Secco makes products that use materials that might otherwise be discarded, and their products are made on a relatively small scale. Their product categories (such as QWERTY, Nice Mice and PCBeasts all allude to the origins of the materials).

So here's a few selections from the Secco product line:
The Rub-a-Dub handbag made from a recycled car inner tube.


These Handy bracelets made from old cellphone buttons.


And this really cool silhouette of a saxamaphone player (which can either be a magnet or a pin).


Unfortunately, their online shop is currently being revamped :(, but it's still worth a look.