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Florian Weiss

Design Management Award – another arbitrary design award?


Florian Weiss, January 16th, 2012

Design is one of the major European resources and is increasingly seen as a key element of successful and innovative companies. The European Union has recognized this and initiated the current only Design Management Award, which last year marked the fifth time. Its goal is to promote innovation in small and medium enterprises, to honor outstanding design management practices and to educate the business community and the public in design management. The award has been announced as a Business Award, which aims to reward the excellent management skills of European companies to implement design.

Is this successful or is

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Jay Peters

The Good and Bad of Design Competitions


Jay Peters, September 23rd, 2010

Design competitions and University collaborations have been a great source of inspiration and new envisionary products for sometime now. Companies often submit their designs to receive prestigious recognition, and students submit concepts hoping to actually be produced. However, since the products do not typically include solid business rationale, these objects are typically judged on their looks alone. This presents a “subjective” artistic view, pigeonholing design further into preconceived notions of  just “making things pretty”.  If  Design is now encompassing more business logic, it makes sense that the contest and collaborations should as well.

As Don Norman points out in his

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