"Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing the developing world, focusing on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The book explores the role design and social responsibility play in...

Paris, die Stadt der Mode, mit ihrem Glamour und der Verheissung von Schönheit, Glück und Prestige, die sich aber bei einem genaueren Blick als Traum und Illusion erweisen. Hier in Paris hat die italienische Autorin studiert und in ihrer Dissertation über die Modebranche hinter die Kulissen...

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...

This book examines how to optimize design management processes in order to produce innovation within organizations. It first looks at how to harvest a culture of design and then examines topics specific to product and service design. Individual chapters provide anecdotes drawn from leading...

This paper analyzes processes and effects of ICT enabled innovation in the Dutch design sector. Although the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is considered as vital in the design sector, little is known about whether and how ICTs affect the firm performance of small...

The constructions - a branch that is in close agreement with the overall evolution of Romanian economy - are confronted with the same hardships from a fiscal viewpoint, and not only that, as the whole economic activity from Romania. In the period following the year 1990, the business environment...

After the year 1989 Romania faced an unpreceded intensification of the legislative activity. But what worries the most is not the great number of normative acts, but their imperfection. Being unsufficiently elaborated, after their coming in operation they were modified and completed by other...

"Cover " -- "Zum Inhalt / Zu den Herausgebern " -- "Titel " -- "Vorwort zur 2. Auflage " -- "Inhaltsverzeichnis " -- "Einleitung: Wo ist das Problem?" -- "Teil 1: Mit Design Thinking erst zum Problem und dann zur Lösung " -- "1.1 Was ist Design Thinking" -- "1.2 Wie wird Design Thinking...

Learn the skills you must master to assume leadership roles-creative directors, art directors, and advertising managers-on creative teams and in integrated branding campaigns for corporate clients. This book compares and contrasts the skill sets and responsibilities of creatives with those of...

Why Design? Why Now? -- Realizing the Potential of Design -- Qualities of Effective Design Organizations -- The Centralized Partnership -- Roles and Team Composition -- Recruiting and Hiring -- Developing the Team: Professional Growth and Managing People -- Creating a Design Culture --...