News

 

One of the strengths of Zilver is its powerful and highly specialised international network. We are intensively involved...

 

Together with former colleague Robert Zwamborn from Studio Tony, we've helped the Océ Service innovation team...

 

Erik's book Brand Driven Innovation has been translated into Chinese. Erik wrote a special foreword for the Chinese...

 

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...

 

On wednesday evening 15th of February the ‘Hogeschool Utrecht' and Zilver Innovation will host a gathering about...

 

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....

 

Erik has been interviewed by Kerry Bodine for her article The Customer Experience Ecosystem, which is published by...

 

On the 20th of October, Erik will give his vision on Service Design and Innovation at the Service Design Global Conference...

 

The Design the new Business project is going quite smoothly! Marta, Juan, Miguel, Esra, Gunjan and Erik are doing a great...

 

Currently we are teaming up with 6 talented MSc students Strategic Product Design at the TU Delft to develop a video on...

 

Haydn Shaughnessy wrote a nice review of Erik's book Brand Driven Innovation on www.innovationmanagement.se!

 

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 Barcelona have joined hands in a consumer research project for Sanoma Belgium, a major...

 

After a 4-month traineeship, Robert has joined the Zilver team in January 2011 as a full-time junior researcher /...

 

On october 27th 2010 at the TU Delft, Erik will officially launch his book 'Brand Driven Innovation' that he wrote for...

 

Erik will launch his book ‘Brand Driven Innovation’ on the Belgian market on Design at Work in Kortrijk on...

 

With Arne van Oosterom of Designthinkers Erik is hosting a series of masterclasses on Service design. Erik will combine...

 

Zilver has been on vacation (Erik to France, Christa to Indonesia, just to stress the difference), to arrive back fully...

 

On april 6th 2010 Erik was part of a Design Management Network event at Priva Campus in de Lier. The theme of the evening...

 

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...

 

Zilver has a lucky hand in trainees lately. After Annemarie Auping, we are now host to Jan Heijting, who has previously...

 

Through our friend Peter van Waart of the Rotterdam School of Applied Sciences school for Media, Communication and...

 

A very special and warm welcome to Return to Sender, the Dutch foundation that was initiated by Katja Schuurman en is...

 

Zilver has held a very succesful workshop for Agoria, the Belgian network of industrial suppliers, on the merits and...

 

We are very happy to welcome Annemarie Auping as our newest trainee at Zilver. Annemarie has worked for Siemens and Flex,...

 

Zilver's Design Management Review Article on Brand Driven Innovation is included in Thomas Lockwood's new book "Design...

 

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...

 

Erik has a new colleague this quarter at the TU Delft: Ralf Beuker, professor in design management at the university of...

 

Zilver heartily welcomes our new client Douwe Egbers, the famous Sara Lee coffee brand. We are involved in exploring the...

 

Today, long time Zilver client Trespa international was awarded the Design Management Europe award in the category 'large...

 

Erik and Ralf beuker are giving a workshop today at Design Flanders on Designing brand driven innovation strategies....

 

Christa and Erik will be attending the second edition of the Creative Company Conference on may 26th. Our report on last...

 

Today christa presented her experiences with contextmapping both through her graduation for Philips and her work for...

 

Erik will be attending DMI's European Conference on Design Management in Milan the coming week. Stay tuned by following...

 

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...

 

Things are moving in a very sunny direction for us here at the Zilver office: Priva hired us to help them organize and...

 

we warmly welcome our new client com.wonen , a housing and project developer from Rotterdam. With com.wonen we will work...

 

Martyn Keus, our friend from South Africa and student in Strategic Product Design at TU Delft, graduated on a Zilver...

 

Erik held a presentation today for Trespa International's board and management top 50. Erik demonstrated how design and...

 

Christa and Erik's work has been published in the Design Managment Institute's Design Management Review. The article...

 

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 received news yesterday from the Design Management Europe organisation that our client NLISIS was nominated for...

 

Erik and Christa will be hosting a lecture and workshop on may 27th at the Hogeschool Utrecht on involvement of users in...

 

Erik was surprised while working on the TU Delft today by a delegation of the student board, presenting him with the...

 

We are proud and excited to welcome Fatboy as our new client. Fatboy is a very strong lifestyle brand with huge potential...

 

We welcome Martyn Keus, who worked in South africa as a branding consultant before embarking on his Strategic Product...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Erik will be speaking on O-I’s international marketing meeting on the topic of brand driven innovation in a...

 

We are proud and happy to have landed a big Mexx contract. Our job is to help the Mexx design community celebrate the...