Vol. 2: design-management.de

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 couple of them also outside Europe and it has always been a special experience, because many people I’ve met at these […]

So in case some of you might have been wondering about the relatively low posting frequency over the last couple of weeks I can assure you that I’m not suffering from idea drain. … In the meantime you might want to read some sources I’d recommend for some more general updates on things that interest me: Needless to say that I’m a fan of Erik ;-) and he’s got some new stuff posted recently on ‘ Design As a Strategic Ressource ‘ In case you’re studying Design Management and feel as if there is no place for you in these recessive times go and read his ‘ Open Letter to Design Management Students Across the World ‘ A real gem when it comes to the foundation of ‘ Wicked Problem Solvin g’ comes from Rotman’s latest issue of Rotman Magazine.

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 longer wrap-up on the things that made 2008 my year I’d like to share one of my all time […]

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 is available! Kudos, Erik!
Addendum: In the meantime DME has released the winning entries on their website. The work and process Zilver Innovation has done and […]

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 be held (again) in Cologne in November this year. Chances are that you might meet me there physically as well […]

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 however you’d wish to point people to ‘older’ blog posts as well.
However old is relative and if you’ve done several postings per […]

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 deliberately to address and solve everyday (user) problems while art in itself is free of any restraints.
(tags: art conference design TED Antonelli […]

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 series which emerged from an initiative at the KISD (Köln International School of Design) under the lead of Prof. Brigitte Wolf and […]

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 trust me that I’m quite excited to meet them … OK, if I think carefully I have one submission in […]

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 University of Wales. He’s been so kind to provide some background information about the person they are […]

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 archives and see if you find some interesting stuff there or browse the linklist on the […]

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 ‘frog design’ and I must admit that he’s exactly written the kind of response which more or less exactly expresses my opinion […]

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 here got eaten/refused by SpamKarma.
Today I’ve re-organised the SQL-Database behind this blog and everything should work fine again! Accordingly if you’d like […]

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 post-graduate Design Management programs. And to be honest I really love this job even though the (necessary) mental switch between under-graduate/graduate and post-graduate students is quite remarkable.
However […]

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] compulsory military service. I’ve left the German Air Force as a lieutenant. From today’s perspective I would do everything […]