CPH127

Hej, my name is Kars Alfrink. I’m a freelance interaction designer from the Netherlands. At the moment I’m living and working in Copenhagen and spend quite some time at the Wemind office (drinking their coffee, using their WiFi). I’m mostly interested in the intersecting areas of game design and interaction design and what that might teach us about the role of play in more ’serious’ parts of our lives (such as working, learning, etc.)

I’ve kept this site in my feedreader for three years I guess - time flies but thanks for keeping writing

Well I’m now half of Arb Design a software design and development company.
We are bootstrapping a business and in this world of connectivity location is not that important. So even though we are a Danish company we are sitting in Prague right now and have been here for 8 months.

Again guys, great idea. I hope you get as much insight as last time.

I’m a roaming Canadian interaction and industrial designer based in London. I am CEO and co-founder of Tinker.it a technology and design consultancy based in London and Milan that focuses on bringing creativity and technology together in areas of interactive objects, installations and environments.
I also work on various side projects and interests that include service design (I was a guest blogger on the first “version” of this site).

Hi CPH127, welcome back. I’m a design strategist, which I think is someone who works comfortably in the overlap of business and design, is a practicing designer (graphic, interaction and space) and collaborates with companies to help them understand how to use design as a strategic capability. After a number of years at IDEO, I’ve recently jumped back into my own company, Central, which is small (tho’ ambitious) practice, using unconventional ways to design remarkable solutions for our projects. We’re a mix of storytellers, writers, crafts persons, designers, filmmakers and producers, who make things together as well as work with organizations to solve critical problems in meaningful ways.

Steve Portigal recently gave an answer to “what is it that makes a great design strategist” - and I’m sorry to say being English wasn’t part of his answer. Sadly. See his entire interview on Influx Insights here.

I’m interested in online collaboration within design practice and education. In 2003 I initiated the COLLABOR8 Project with British photographer and lecturer Annie Morrad to foster multidisciplinary online projects between design programs in different institutions, and between different cultures. We were both based in Shanghai at the time.

I am now Project Developer and Producer of Omnium Research Group’s ‘Creative Waves’ global e-learning project for 2008 - COLLABOR8 (C8). C8 is a non-profit educational initiative, which aims to create awareness about the increasing importance of cross-cultural design practice by challenging Chinese and Australian design students to work together collaboratively.

C8 explores an emerging paradigm where China is central to many design and production processes - a world where designers work together online collaboratively facing the inescapable challenge to create sustainable design.

Hi.

I’m Jo. This is my first time here, I not a “blogger”, and still prefer to sit down and talk.

My dream is to sit down with u guys and discuss life, creativity, passion and tacit knowledge and just listen to your experiencies. For me, that is education. Life-education. (My professor would say that its an interview for my Master Thesis in Entrepreneurship…)

I’m young, happy and running my own agency for alternative marketing. And now, after reading you blog I’m silent. You just expanded my view of the world, my way of thinking - thank you. You rock! (And if there would be the slightest chance that you ever feel like “adopting” a youngster to learn/foster, my name is Jo and I volunteer as first in line=) )

//Jo, Sweden

… oops, for a short moment the headline reminded me on my very own blog Beside blogging for almost 5 yrs. I wear many hats with a focus on cmmunicating the value of Design Management. More to be found here: http://www.design-management.de/about-me/

Dear all - old-timers & new-comers

Nice that you’re commenting here, thank you very much.

It’s been a while since I’ve searched the blogosphere for new and interesting blogs around topics like design, leadership, innovation and complexity - if you should list 3 important an thoughtprovoking weblogs, which should that be?

…and for those of you who haven’t introduced your self yet, please do

I’m Erik Roscam Abbing from the Netherlands where I run my creative consultancy Zilver ( http://www.zilverinnovation.com ). My professional life revolves around bringing design, innovation and branding together. I blog on http://www.branddriveninnovation.com . I teach brand&product strategy and design strategy at the TU Delft and design&brand management at Eurib.
I will be in paris next week @ the DMI conference, anyone there as well?
keep up the blog!
regards, Erik