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Tim Selders

To be a designer or not, that is the question for a design manager…


Tim Selders, March 31st, 2010

Have you ever seen the hilarious TV series ‘The IT Crowd’?
If you have, you saw a young ambitious lady manager trying to lead a bunch of IT nerds in the cellar of a big office building.
You then also may have noticed that that didn’t work…

This is a sit-com, but what about real life?
Is it possible to have a ‘bunch of creative designers’ led by a generally trained MBA-kind of manager?

This has been one of the discussions we had during our Raymond session, where 25 design directors and managers from all over Europe gathered.

My conclusion …

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Tim Selders

Design managers meeting in Barcelona: great initiative!


Tim Selders, July 1st, 2009

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I just received the news letter from the Barcelona Design Center, talking about a design managers meeting they just organized.

At PARK, we have been doing a similar thing for the last 6 years, together with EdenSpiekerman. We gave it a bit more eccentric name: ‘Raymond’…

A yearly 2-day session with 10-15 senior design directors discussing some of their design management issues together. And being suprised that some of their issues are actually very similar…img_raymond_v_0011

Although this may sound competitive to the BCD initiative, I am happy the event in Barcelona took place. It is a great way to …

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