Relauch of ‘form: The Making of Design’
Some years ago I’ve worked as a senior consultant for the “first integrated design corporation” in Germany: design.net ag (today the company is part of Peter Schmidt Group). Interestingly the company...
View ArticleThings to come …
In his fresh and narrative style my friend Mike Wagner over at “Own Your Brand” blog posted a very nice story in order to explain his ‘blog break’ for a couple of weeks. But now he’s back and I thought...
View ArticleOn Stage Fright and Nobel Prize Winners
Niti Bhan’s posting from today triggered me to raise my voice again here on this blog. In a somehow coquettish manner she is describing her little competition with another Design & Business Blogger...
View ArticleMerry Christmas 2006 and a Happy New Year 2007
I don’t want to go too sentimental here, but I’d still like to wish you all “Merry Christmas and a happy New Year”! For several weeks now I’d wanted to share some of my experiences from conferences,...
View ArticleWhile being on the road …
… I still owe these guys a (blog) favor: – Erik Roscam Abbink: Tagged for “5 Reasons For Brand Driven Innovation” – Mike Wagner: “Thin Slicing Meme” – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal: “5 Things Meme” I didn’t...
View Article5 Things about Me
So here we continue with the “5 Things Meme” triggered by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal who tagged me recently: – After finishing my high school diploma at the age of 19 I had to do my [in the mid. 80’s]...
View ArticleEarly Signs For Getting Older: Design Management Education
As some of you know I’m not solely working as a self-employed business consultant (Design Management & Social Innovation), but also as an academic/teacher for international graduate and...
View ArticleNote from the IT Desk
Thanks to Mike Wagner from OwnYourBrand.com I’ve been pointed to an error in my WordPress SpamKarma installation on this blog. This might have caused that any recent comment some of you might have left...
View Article‘Designers Suck’: Some Final Words
In the light of my recent posting “Hype: New Kids On The Blog” today I’ve checked Adam Richardson’s Blog “richardsona” (Which I highly recommend by the way). Adam works as a Strategy Director for...
View ArticleSummer in the City …
I thought it must be only fair to inform you that this blog (including me) will go for a short summer break. Please expect postings as usual back in August. In the meantime you might want to browse the...
View ArticleJob Opportunity: Design Management Researcher
Well, well I’m late with this one, but there are still 14 days to go with this job offer I’ve received via my design management network. Some days ago I got in touch with Darragh Murphy from the...
View ArticleOnly One Day to Go …
I’m heading to Kronberg later today for the welcome dinner with the BraunPrize team as well as the 5 finalists! So far I neither know their names nor their submissions or nationalities and you can...
View Article4th Design Management Conference, Cologne
I’ve already mentioned this in an earlier posting that the 4th iteration of the German Design Management Forum will take place in Cologne, Germany on November 9–10th. This is the fourth conference of a...
View Articlelinks for 2008-01-29
TED | Talks | Paola Antonelli: Treating design as art (video) Personally I do find it difficult and riskful to discuss design next to art as the two fulfill different purposes. Design is aiming...
View ArticleWeekly Summary: CW 25
Part of the characteristics of blogs is their sequential format. This implies that postings usually appear in a chronological order. While this is in general nothing to worry about from time to time...
View ArticleGerman Design Management Forum: November 2008
Florian Weiss (no linking possible due to 100% flash on their end :-( over from our friends at PARK just dropped me a note sharing some closer information about the upcoming Design Management forum to...
View ArticleAnd the DME Award 2008 goes to … ZilverInnovation.com
I’m proud to announce that my friend, ex-student and current business partner Erik Roscam Abbing from ZilverInnovation.com has won a DME Award tonight! Detailed news will follow once more information...
View ArticleHappy Holidays 2008
Instead of raving about my current Holiday feelings I’ve decided to simply say “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” to all of my valued readers of this blog. Until I’ve found the time to write a...
View ArticleWhat keeps me busy?
Wow, the first month of the new year is over (already) and it seems that Christmas is sooo long ago … Nevertheless as we live in interesting times it time to solve problems and not stick to sentimental...
View ArticleFollow European DMI Conference via Twitter.com
I recall that my first DMI conference I’ve ever attended is dating back to 1998. At that time it has been the second European conference and took place in Amsterdam. Ever since I’ve attended a...
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