Vol. 2: design-management.de

I’m actually heading for the Design Management Europe Award (DME Award) later this afternoon. Funnily enough I haven’t heard about this event until recently ;-) After all it has taken a visit to my colleague’s blog “Brand Driven Innovation” edited by Erik Roscam Abbing from Rotterdam who posted about an earlier event in Eindhoven which [...]

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 [...]

One of my blog pals from Canada, Jess McMullin contacted me last week. I gladly share the information that Jess as well as Victor Lombardi will speak at the Information Architecture conference to be held at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, Germany on November 9.–10., 2007. Even though most of the conference site is [...]

Even though we’ve never met in person I seem to like Lucy Kimbell over at the “Design leads us where exactly” blog. On Monday this on week Lucy posted a nice piece on her perception of the lack of intersections at an upcoming conference called “Intersections 07” to be held in October this year: “Similarly, [...]

As an addendum to my recent posting on the “Overlap7 conference” may I point you to the very informative comments left by Steve Portigal (co-organizer of Overlap06) and Michael Anton Dila (Key organizer of Overlap07). Thanks, folks! I find it highly interesting (relevant) to see how social interactions and iterative learning shape the creation of [...]

On Monday I’ve written about the recent Overlap07 (un)conference organized by Victor Lombardi et al. in Toronto last week. Moving to Toronto this year has clearly been a smart idea since some lead thinkers (from the business side) in the field of “Design Thinking” are located in the neighbourhood say Heather Frazer Fraser, Jeanne Liedtka (edited: [...]

More or less unnoticed within the usual “noise” a few minutes ago my newsreader has informed me that Victor Lombardi has posted a short first impression summary from “Overlap 07” which took place from June 15-17 in Toronto, Canada. Have I been the only one who did not recognize this event to take place or has [...]

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)

While my own posting frequency remains low due to various business projects I’m more than happy that some friends of my design management network take over some ‘responsibilities’. Earlier this month I’ve written a posting about a former student of mine Roderique Duell (Operations Manager, Marketing & Industrial Design) now working for Johnson Controls Europe. [...]

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. [...]

In case you should be interested in what’s going on at the World Economic Forum in Davos you might want to study this report assembled by BusinessWeek. Most of the articles are gathered around the topics of “Climate Change”, “Green Products” as well as “Strategies for Socially & Environmental Sustainability”. I think these all are [...]

I know I’m late with this announcement, but better late than never ;-) In any case as an informed blog reader I’m sure that you’ve stumbled across the following information somewhere else in our small niche of blogs on Business & Design. A couple of weeks ago Allan Chochinov, Editor-in-Chief, Core77 contacted me in order to [...]

In early June I’ve blogged about “reboot8.0” a conference on “the intersection of digital technology and change” which I’d have loved to attend. Unfortunately I couldn’t join this year, but yesterday Ton Zijlstra and I celebrated an informative “reboot de-brief” here in Münster at my favorite Bagel Cafe. While you can read the short anecdote [...]

Did I really forget to mention reboot8.0 happening yesterday and today in Copenhagen? Shame on me! Kudos to Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (with whom I’ve had lots of fun at last fall’s WorldBlu forum in Washington D.C.) for creatively organizing such a great event where 400 people from across the globe meet for two days at a [...]

… busy, busy, busy … I’m far behind with topics I’d like to write about, struggling with “writers block” symptoms (at least for this blog) ;-) and new business opportunities which are appearing on the horizon … Anyway while I’ve promised to share some more conference impressions from the KISD 2006 DM conference this morning I’ve [...]