Vol. 2: design-management.de

While some might consider Business Models for Video Sharing Communities (like YouTube.com) in the context of Web 2.0 as some sort of off topic I do think that Design Managers should have a basic understanding about the players, positionings & shifts in the market.
Via Heiko Hebig (whom I’ve met at reboot 9.0 in Copenhagen) I’ve […]

Being at reboot 9.0 in Copenhagen right now and sitting in a quiet corner having a cold beer I’ve discovered this interesting list of Corporations and the according corporate fonts they use. While the Wiki is in German I think the font names speak for themselves. Have a look >>> (via kottke.org)

Last week I gave another Design Management seminar at my local university where I’ve recently been appointed as a Professor for Design Management. What most under-graduate students are interested in are studies about user habits and other related market research documents.
Via ‘Jaffe Juice Blog’ I’ve been directed to a study conducted by BBDO consisting of […]

“Put together a team with a great engineer, a crazy designer, a good businessperson, and a good human-factors scientist or psychologist of some kind, and put them in a room and get them to try to work together. It’s a big challenge, but they come to a point, surprisingly quickly, where they realize that what […]

Via the folks of EURIB (a commercially run institute at the intersection of brand, reputation & design in Rotterdam/NL) I’ve just been pointed to a new book about Design Management written by Kathryn Best, Course Leader in Design Management at the University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham/UK.
In concert with other recent examples I’m still surprised […]