Design for Business: Volume 2
The topics in this book range from branding and sustainability to business-driven design education. The book will include Per Mollerup s essay on the importance of simplicity in. Mollerup is a distinguished Scandinavian designer, Professor, and author of numerous design books, including the best-seller, "Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks" (1997 / 2013) which has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide. In addition to this, we will include transcripts of two interviews with Quan Payne, the former Global Art Director for Nike for the London Olympics and Director for Digital Sports Initiative of Nike+ as well as a paper by Gjoko Muratovski on Nike s design and marketing strategies for the 2012 London Olympics. The book will also feature a transcript of an interview with Dan Formosa, a New York-based design consultant and design researcher and founding member of the iconic Smart Design studio. Den is an award-winning designer with a list of clients such as Ford, HP, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics, and Microsoft. There are number of other works that will are included in this Volume, such as Stuart Gluth s essay on the importance of a research-led design practice in typography; Julian Major s, Aoi Tanaka s and Jenni Romaniuk s paper on colour and brand identity; Emily Wright s paper on packaging design testing methods; Robert Crocker s study of greenwashing, sustainability, and communication design; Nina Terrey s case study on organisational management by design; Gerda Gemser s, Giulia Calabretta s, Nachoem Wijnberg s and Paul Hekkert s paper on strategic decision-making in new product development; Jan Jervis s and Jeffrey Brand s research on how Australian businesses are hiring designers; and Elaine Saunders s, Jessica Taft s and David Jenkinson s exciting case study on the design partnership between the hearing aid company BHS and the design studio Designworks that have revolutionised this healthcare sector."