Expanding the Network
11/03/2013
One of the strengths of Zilver is its powerful and highly specialised international network. We are intensively involved...
Future Scenario movie for Canon/Océ
11/03/2013
Together with former colleague Robert Zwamborn from Studio Tony, we've helped the Océ Service innovation team...
Brand Driven Innovation goes China
11/03/2013
Erik's book Brand Driven Innovation has been translated into Chinese. Erik wrote a special foreword for the Chinese...
Buying into Service Design
11/03/2013
Erik presented his views on Service and Business Design at the Web and Beyond conference in Amsterdam. You can find a...
new clients
11/03/2013
Since our last update (which was eons ago) we've acquired a nice roster of new clients, if we may say so. And we've...
Gathering about Design Thinking and...
18/01/2012
On wednesday evening 15th of February the ‘Hogeschool Utrecht' and Zilver Innovation will host a gathering about...
Design the New Business
16/01/2012
The Design the New Business project has been successfully completed and the movie has had its premiere screening in...
Staff Update
16/01/2012
Our Italian intern Giulia, had been working with us for the past four months and now her internship has come to an end....
Interview with Erik by Kerry Bodine
31/08/2011
Erik has been interviewed by Kerry Bodine for her article The Customer Experience Ecosystem, which is published by...
Erik speaks at Service Design Global...
31/08/2011
On the 20th of October, Erik will give his vision on Service Design and Innovation at the Service Design Global Conference...
Design the new Business website
27/07/2011
The Design the new Business project is going quite smoothly! Marta, Juan, Miguel, Esra, Gunjan and Erik are doing a great...
Design the new Business
24/06/2011
Currently we are teaming up with 6 talented MSc students Strategic Product Design at the TU Delft to develop a video on...
Review BDI on www.innovationmanagement.se
28/04/2011
Haydn Shaughnessy wrote a nice review of Erik's book Brand Driven Innovation on www.innovationmanagement.se!
Zilver @ DMI Conference Amsterdam
28/04/2011
Erik, Christa, Jan and Robert will be attending the DMI conference in Amsterdam on May 18th and 19th. Looking forward to...
Zilver and Claro partners join hands
16/02/2011
Zilver and Claro partners Barcelona have joined hands in a consumer research project for Sanoma Belgium, a major...
Robert Zwamborn joins Zilver!
16/02/2011
After a 4-month traineeship, Robert has joined the Zilver team in January 2011 as a full-time junior researcher /...
Official book launch october 27th
02/09/2010
On october 27th 2010 at the TU Delft, Erik will officially launch his book 'Brand Driven Innovation' that he wrote for...
Belgian book launch at Design at work...
02/09/2010
Erik will launch his book ‘Brand Driven Innovation’ on the Belgian market on Design at Work in Kortrijk on...
service design masterclass
02/09/2010
With Arne van Oosterom of Designthinkers Erik is hosting a series of masterclasses on Service design. Erik will combine...
new clients fall 2010
02/09/2010
Zilver has been on vacation (Erik to France, Christa to Indonesia, just to stress the difference), to arrive back fully...
Design Management Network Lecture at...
07/04/2010
On april 6th 2010 Erik was part of a Design Management Network event at Priva Campus in de Lier. The theme of the evening...
pre-announcement of Erik's book
01/04/2010
Take a look at AVA's pre-announcement of Erik's book. Erik has been working double shifts to get his full colour 200 page...
New trainee Jan Heijting
01/04/2010
Zilver has a lucky hand in trainees lately. After Annemarie Auping, we are now host to Jan Heijting, who has previously...
graduation student Manon van der Sar
01/04/2010
Through our friend Peter van Waart of the Rotterdam School of Applied Sciences school for Media, Communication and...
new client: Return to Sender
01/04/2010
A very special and warm welcome to Return to Sender, the Dutch foundation that was initiated by Katja Schuurman en is...
workshop on B2B branding and design for...
27/11/2009
Zilver has held a very succesful workshop for Agoria, the Belgian network of industrial suppliers, on the merits and...
Annemarie Auping trainee at Zilver
27/11/2009
We are very happy to welcome Annemarie Auping as our newest trainee at Zilver. Annemarie has worked for Siemens and Flex,...
Zilver article in design thinking book
27/11/2009
Zilver's Design Management Review Article on Brand Driven Innovation is included in Thomas Lockwood's new book "Design...
book on Brand Driven Innovation
27/11/2009
We haven't told you yet, but Erik has been working overtime: he's writing a book for ava publishing on Brand Driven...
new client: Sanex
27/11/2009
Zilver's skin is clean and healthy thanks to our new client Sanex, the (former) Sara Lee household&bodycare brand...
teaching with Ralf Beuker
27/11/2009
Erik has a new colleague this quarter at the TU Delft: Ralf Beuker, professor in design management at the university of...
new client: Sara Lee Douwe Egbers
27/11/2009
Zilver heartily welcomes our new client Douwe Egbers, the famous Sara Lee coffee brand. We are involved in exploring the...
Trespa wins Design Management Europe award
23/10/2009
Today, long time Zilver client Trespa international was awarded the Design Management Europe award in the category 'large...
design flanders workshop
02/06/2009
Erik and Ralf beuker are giving a workshop today at Design Flanders on Designing brand driven innovation strategies....
creative company conferece
25/05/2009
Christa and Erik will be attending the second edition of the Creative Company Conference on may 26th. Our report on last...
christa presents contextmapping experience
13/05/2009
Today christa presented her experiences with contextmapping both through her graduation for Philips and her work for...
Erik at DMI conference Milan
29/03/2009
Erik will be attending DMI's European Conference on Design Management in Milan the coming week. Stay tuned by following...
Meini Prins Business Woman of the year
29/03/2009
Meini Prins, general manager of our client Priva, was awarded the Prix Veuve Clicquot 2009 last monday, by Neelie Kroes....
new client ETNA
29/03/2009
Zilver welcomes our new client ETNA, the well-known Dutch brand for kitchen appliances, part of the ATAG/ETNA/PELGRIM...
zilver welcomes new client Priva
16/02/2009
Things are moving in a very sunny direction for us here at the Zilver office: Priva hired us to help them organize and...
new client com.wonen
03/02/2009
we warmly welcome our new client com.wonen , a housing and project developer from Rotterdam. With com.wonen we will work...
Martyn Keus graduates @ zilver
07/01/2009
Martyn Keus, our friend from South Africa and student in Strategic Product Design at TU Delft, graduated on a Zilver...
presentation for Trespa management top 50
17/12/2008
Erik held a presentation today for Trespa International's board and management top 50. Erik demonstrated how design and...
Design Management Review paper
17/12/2008
Christa and Erik's work has been published in the Design Managment Institute's Design Management Review. The article...
NLISIS wins DME award
14/10/2008
On october 13th, in Cardiff Wales, Zilver client NLISIS won the Design Management Europe award in the category 'first...
Our client NLISIS has won a Dutch Design Award in the category 'best practice award'. This means that in the eyes of the...
Welcome DKB!
25/07/2008
Zilver welcomes De Klerk Binnenbouw (DKB) as new client. DKB develops, builds and installs interiors for mega yachts,...
zilver client NLISIS nominated for Design...
04/07/2008
Zilver received news yesterday from the Design Management Europe organisation that our client NLISIS was nominated for...
'Creative with users' workshop
23/05/2008
Erik and Christa will be hosting a lecture and workshop on may 27th at the Hogeschool Utrecht on involvement of users in...
erik wins 'most inspiring teacher' award
23/05/2008
Erik was surprised while working on the TU Delft today by a delegation of the student board, presenting him with the...
Zilver welcomes Fatboy as new client
08/05/2008
We are proud and excited to welcome Fatboy as our new client. Fatboy is a very strong lifestyle brand with huge potential...
Martyn Keus starts graduation project @...
25/04/2008
We welcome Martyn Keus, who worked in South africa as a branding consultant before embarking on his Strategic Product...
Design Management Institute conference paper
25/04/2008
Download our brand new paper on Brand Driven Innovation here. We will be presenting it at the international DMI conference...
DMI presentation
17/04/2008
Erik presented his vision on brand driven innovation to an audience of design management practicioners and academics last...
Zilver's new talent: Christa van Gessel
11/04/2008
Christa van Gessel has joined Zilver bdi in august 2007! Christa and Erik met through Christa’s grauation project...
permeable branding
11/04/2008
Andre Weenink presented the graduation project (41Mb) he conducted at Zilver bdi to obtain the title Master of Science in...
NLISIS introduction
11/04/2008
Zilver congratulates Nlisis chromatography with the very succesful launch of their brand and first generation of products...
Owens-Illinois lecture
11/04/2008
Erik will be speaking on O-I’s international marketing meeting on the topic of brand driven innovation in a...
zilver works for mexx
04/04/2008
We are proud and happy to have landed a big Mexx contract. Our job is to help the Mexx design community celebrate the...














