Andre Weenink of booreiland graduated at Zilver on Permeable Branding. But we couldn't keep him. He had to go back to the company he started as a student with Menno and Wimer. Great guys, great work. This website amongst others.

Edwin Rooseman of new media design management agency Nandooh is the other half of Designest, our brand touch point orchestration joint venture. Edwin loves online expiriments and offline parasailing.

We know Ralf from the Master of Design Management, and he is now a friend and business partner. Ralf is a great source of inspiration on design management, web 2.0 and strategic design thinking. He's also German but that's not his fault.

After a career at Waacs our friend Roy is now an independent product designer and part of the Designest team. Roy loves design, eighties gizmos and good food. You should see him draw. By hand!

Fred Montijn was Erik's business partner from 1999 to 2006. After we split the business in a consultancy (erik) and a design office (fred) we've been co-operating better than ever. Fred is a great designer and a great friend.

7daysinmylife.com is a very accessible and quick online tool to gain usable and inspiring end user insights for branding, and the development of new products and services.

For the english brochure use this link:
http://tinyurl.com/djm2jj

Christa and I wrote an article for the Design Management Review 2008 summer edition on design leadership. Download it and let us know what you think.

this is the paper we have presented on the International Design Management Academic Conference in Paris in april 2008. It contains all our latest findings and insights, and a case study to demonstrate Brand Driven Innovation in practice.

if you want to know more about branding, innovation or design management, and how they are related, here are some sources for your bed side table.