Last month we told you about Design as Service a symposium bringing together two ambitious programmes in The Netherlands aimed at exploring and promoting the changing role of designers in innovation processes. The symposium was a great success, and now we have a couple of great links for those of you who couldn’t make it on [...]
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Maaike Schuitema
October 12, 2011 – 11:29 am
Maaike was born in the Hague, and has been studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven prior to her internship with STBY in our Amsterdam office. She already holds a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Rotterdam. Maaike describes herself as “an empathic Designer, who is inpired by people”.She’s a firm believer in [...]
‘Design as Service’ – An International Symposium during Dutch Design Week
October 6, 2011 – 9:45 am
How are the roles of designers changing in a world where they often no longer provide a service to one organisation, but rather collaborate in open and networked innovation consortia? What does the increasingly strategic contribution of design to innovation furthermore mean for the product-service offering of organisations? These are a couple of the questions [...]
GOOD’11 – Thanks for taking part!
September 30, 2011 – 6:41 pm
Massive thanks to all of you who in some way contributed to making The Great Outdoors of Design a success!
Are you being served? Collaborations to improve services for train travellers
September 29, 2011 – 2:06 pm
STBY have recently been working on a large-scale project in The Netherlands showcasing the very best of what Service Design has to offer.
Alessia Bellon
August 19, 2011 – 11:02 am
Alessia joined STBY in the summer of 2011. Despite quickly realising that what passes for summer in London doesn’t quite match-up with her native Italy, she nevertheless agreed to stay with us for 6 months as our latest UK intern. Having obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Alessia [...]
James Sunderland
August 17, 2011 – 3:48 pm
James is the latest freelancer to start working with STBY as an associate, joining us on a project for the first time in mid-2011. He’s an independent design consultant who applies a research and co-design led approach to a variety of brand, product and service design challenges. After gaining a degree in Design for [...]
GOOD’11 Programme Released!
August 17, 2011 – 11:08 am
With a month to go before our first conference ‘The Great Outdoors of Design’ gets underway, the full list of topics we’ll be looking at has now been finalised. Our intention with this event has always been to aim for a more intimate and collaborative atmosphere than is found at many conferences; we really want [...]
The Great Outdoors of Design: An Interactive Conference Hosted by Reach
August 5, 2011 – 10:14 am
These are exciting times here at STBY, as today we can announce that come Friday September 23rd we’ll be hosting our first conference with Reach, the global network of design research companies of which STBY are a co-founder. Held in conjunction with the London Design Festival,”The Great Outdoors of Design” (or ‘GOOD’, as we increasingly like [...]
Valentine Mayuran Emmanuel
August 3, 2011 – 10:04 am
Valentine joined us in July 2011 for a short-term internship in our London office. Currently studying Integrated Design at the Koln International School of Design, he’s already managed to accrue four years of communication design experience in his native Germany. “Native” is perhaps a misleading term for someone with such an international background however, [...]