Birch forest, where the owners of G-moodi, Kati Alasaari and Jusa Kaivo-oja, pose.

US - ALWAYS IN G-MOODI

G-moodi is a certain kind of state of mind ('mood'), feeling and way of being. It is light and cheerful at the same time, but also a bit whimsical and eccentric. In the G-moodi, you lash out and giggle, but you also know how to calm down and curl up under the blanket. It's good to be in G-moodi, always.

G-moodi on vuonna 2020 perustettu design-yritys Seinäjoella. Se suunnittelee ja valmistaa sisustus- ja juhlatuotteita sekä koruja laserleikkaamalla. Kaikki tuotteemme suunnitellaan ja valmistetaan Suomessa. Materiaalina G-moodi käyttää suomalaista ohutviiluvaneria, mutta muutkin materiaalit taipuvat g-moodilaisten käsissä. G-moodi palvelee myös muita yrityksiä näppäränä ja tarmokkaana alihankintakumppanina. Yrityksen perustajat ovat Kati Vähämäki ja Jusa Kaivo-oja.

KATI

Kati on G-moodin selkäranka. Hän pitää Excel-rivit ryhdissä, kilpailuttaa sopimukset, perehtyy materiaalintoimittajien aineistoihin ja huolehtii, että hommassa pysyy tolkku.

As a balance to her financial role, Kati is also an artist soul who immerses herself in painting and colors and the visual spiral of Pinterest for hours. Ideas for G-moodi's products may come across a forest path or in the lyrics of a song. Kati first sketches her ideas with a pen on paper and only then sits down at the computer's design program.

In entrepreneurship, Kati is fascinated by freedom. Freedom from schedules and other people's decisions. Kati, who spent her working career in financial administration and marketing, is grateful for what she learned and experienced in her workplace, but the looming call to the entrepreneurial path was irresistible. Going solo was not an option, Kati thinks that a business partner is an important piece as a spirit lifter and a sparring partner for inspiration. With a business partner who gets excited about same visual things, the two become more than the sum of their parts.

By education, Kati is a trade expert in accounting and an expert in print communication. He is currently studying visual expression and media.

Kati's family includes her husband, a school-age daughter and a son under one year old. In his spare time, he enjoys not only his home team, but also painting, theatre, exercise and music.

JUSA

Jusa nähdään usein universumin kaukaisimmalla kehällä, pohtimassa, kokeilemassa ja muuten vain fiilistelemässä, mitä kaikkea G-moodi voisikaan tehdä. Jusa on hieman allerginen taulukko-laskennalle ja laskutusohjelmille, mutta viihtyy sen sijaan hyvin laserleikkurin hehkussa. Polveilevan innostujaluonteensa Jusa kokee näyttäytyvän parhaimmillaan yrittäjäkollega Katin ollessa vastinparina.

Jusa's years of work have included a variety of jobs, from bar work to factory work, but the last few years he has worked in the IT industry. In design entrepreneurship, the (plywood) pieces have fallen into place: the opportunity to decide on his job description and working hours is important to Jusa. Jusa is a data scientist by training and a media assistant focused on animation / game production.

When he has time off work, Jusa tries to listen to all the releases on Spotify that suit his music taste - and there are plenty of them. Free time is also spent following the wife through the woods, forced into nature. Escapism moments playing video games that last for days have been part of hobbies since the 80s.

Jusan perheenjäseniä ovat rakkaan vaimon lisäksi viisi kissaa ja koira. Kaikki ovat mukana menossa kaikessa mahdollisissa työ- ja vapaa-aikakuvioissa, maaseudun rauhassa.