Itkonen graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland 1976 and did her MA degree at Henryk Tomaszewski’s poster studio. She was a founder and a designer at Studio Viiva design agency in Finland for three decades. She was a professor of visual communication at Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture 2004 – 2015.
Her special interests are visual communication and social design. She has participated in many national and international poster events. She has been a jury member in Mexico and Warsaw international poster biennial and provided social design poster workshops in France, Germany, Mexico, Slovenia, Poland and Belgium. Now she is a lecturer at PJAIT, Warsaw, Poland.
