Nuutinen has won several international awards, among them the latest Talents a la Carte award by Maison&Objet fair 2016 and Interior Innovation Award 2015 Winner awarded to the Candeo bright light lamp produced by Finnish Innolux. In 2011 she was awarded the Finnish talent of the year in Muoto2011 gala in Helsinki. In 2014, her Oma floor lamp was selected for Home- ware Top 25 by Monocle magazine. More recently, she was also awarded a one-year grant by the Art Promotion Centre Finland. Katriina Nuutinen was born in 1983, in Helsinki, Finland. She took her Master’s in 2011 at the School of Arts and Design at Aalto University, Helsinki.