Saku Heinänen is professor and the head of the graphic design program of Aalto University. He has been a prolific editorial designer and one of the few professional typeface designers in Finland, creating awarded retail and custom fonts. Heinänen has always practiced illustration, and now combines it with writing. His first illustrated novel Zaida ja lumienkeli (Zaida and the Snow Angel) came out in 2014, and its follow-up will be published in spring 2015. Heinänen has launched a new minor subject, titled Pixstories, that combines story and script writing, character design, and digital animation. Together with Dodson he is currently re-designing the major program of graphic design at Aalto.