Archive for November, 2004



BusinessWeek: Q&A With Samsung Design

Published on November 28, 2004

I’d wish there was a german business magazine reporting that often about design like Business Week :-( with the holiday season officially being started this weekend consumer interest in design seems to be on an all time high (anyone out there who’s not interested in an Apple iPod :-))
in contrast design management, let it […]


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Europe in the Creative Age

Published on November 8, 2004

despite the widely ramified discussion if design management is about ‘product’ versus ‘process’ or ‘concrete’ versus ‘abstract’ it might be more interesting to think about ‘design management’ and ‘design managers’ as part of the “creative industries” or to speak with Richard Florida, as an element of the “Creative Class”:
“(The creative class) At its core are […]


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lecturing about the design management profession

Published on November 3, 2004

I’m very pleased that I’ve been invited by HfG (Hochschule für Gestaltung) in Offenbach, Germany recently for giving a lecture about the chances and opportunities of the design management profession.
together with the network for entrepreneurs called “routea66″ (named after the autobahn connecting the three dominating cities in the Rhein-Main area: Offenbach, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden) […]


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