
As I wrote about in the previous post, this summer my company Zilver innovation and 6 students from the Strategic Product Design master at the TU Delft are making a documentary, entitled ‘Design the new Business‘. And we are making progress!! Check out the trailer here, and let us know what you think on www.designthenewbusiness.com [...]

This summer my company Zilver innovation and 6 students from the Strategic Product Design master at the TU Delft have embarked on quite a little adventure. We are making a documentary, entitled ‘Design the new Business‘. The idea of the documentary was born when I had the opportunity to host 6 of the best students [...]

On Wednesday October 27th 2010 the official launch symposium for Erik’s book ‘brand driven innovation’ was held at the faculty of Industrial Design at the TU Delft. It was a very special, inspiring and exciting day, with around 150 great people attending: business partners, clients, friends, family, and colleagues from academia and practice. A great [...]

Since the spring of 2009 I’ve been working on my book ‘Brand Driven Innovation’ for AVA Academia. It has been a great adventure to write this book, and I am very proud that finally the work is done. It’s time to celebrate! Therefore I am organizing a launch symposium/party in the afternoon of Wednesday October [...]

This blog hasn’t gotten much of my attention lately but that doesn’t mean I have been idle. To the contrary, I’ve been extremely productive this first half of 2009. I’ve just found other ways to express myself than through this blog. One of these is twitter, where you can follow me. I’ve met some great [...]

Here’s what prof. Dr. Jan Buijs wrote on the DMI conference. We spent the week with him, he’s a great guy and a veteran in all that concerns design, innovation, creativity and education. Summary Design Thinking DMI conferences Paris, April 2008 JB thoughts/ideas/concepts/…. after three days of Paris brain crunching. Both the academic conference on [...]

Both at the academic and the business DMI conference in Paris this week speakers were very keen on defining design thinking. From an academic point of view, this is quite understandable: epistemologically (wow!) there’s some very interesting stuff happening when a designer/creative puts his teeth in a problem. (See many articles by Roger Martin on [...]