Archive for June, 2004



re-designing ALDI | lessons to be learned

Published on June 23, 2004

a few weeks ago the news about german design graduate students having re-designed the corporate and packaging design of ALDI made into the press. a professor and his students at the university of applied sciences in bielefeld/germany thought it might be a good idea to open an exhibition showing their proposals for a new corporate […]


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designing the outside of the inside | the state of design

Published on June 13, 2004

in hard economic times like these days every product or service has to fight for its right to exist. and this challenge comes from both sides the public sector as well as the private one.
while one shouldn’t make too strong generalizations ‘design investments’ in its broadest sense belong to the group of services which are […]


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final cohort 3 ‘master of design management’ strategy workshop rotterdam

Published on June 3, 2004

my final workshop weekend for cohort 3 in the course of the module “strategy and the business of business” at the Master of Design Management programme at INHOLLAND Graduate School in rotterdam will take place this weekend.- well, cohort 4 will start this fall and so will my module :-)
so please expect new postings by […]


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design management in B-School contexts | Prof. Jordi Montaņa

Published on June 1, 2004

this morning course director of the Master of Design Management programme at INHOLLAND Graduate School, Barbara Vlot, announced the guest lecture of Prof. Jordi Montaña/Spain in Utrecht/NL, June 15th, 2004.
it somehow seems to be a special advantage of smaller countries like the netherlands (among others) that they are able to set-up joint projects like this […]


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