Born: 1959
Nationality: Belgium
Parents : Mother Austrian, Father Belgian
Lived in Austria until 1972.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
1983 – 1989 junior and senior design consultant at IDEA Antwerp, Belgium
1989 – 2010 senior design consultant and partner at Enthoven Associates Design Consultants, in Antwerp/Belgium, in charge of various design projects
1991 – now in charge of all Asian & SE Asian customers for Enthoven Associates Design Consultants and Yellow Window Design Consultants ( Belgium and France) : client manager and project leader for Asian all design projects
2010 – now freelance product designer
Clients : selection of some major clients :
Samsonite, Coca-Cola, Unibind, Vaillant, Tupperware, Ideal Standard, Alcatel, LG
Electronics, Clear Channel Adshel, New Holland, KBC, De Post, L&H Bank, Thalys, CRRC, Xiamen Golden Dragon, Zhongtong, etc.
Activities : selection of some major products & sectors :
luggage, retailequipment, sanitary ware, building products, consumer electronics, domestioc
appliances, furniture (indoor-outdoor-bathroom), agriculture machinerie, public
transportation products ( rail and bus), houseware , interior CI’s for banks, etc.
ACADEMICAL EXPERIENCES
1984 – now various “guest professorships” for product design & product development
- at the “Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg” (Genk/Belgium )
- at the “Higher Institute for Integrated Product Development / Henry van de Velde” (Antwerp/Belgium)
DIPLOMAS
Graduated as master in product & industrial design at “LUCA school-of-Arts” in Genk/Belgium ( previously called “Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg”, previously called “AVKIV”)
LANGUAGES
- German
- Dutch
- English
- FrenchAWARDS
· SMAU, International Award for Burotics, Italy | 1986 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Unibind 45 | 1987 |
· European Design Selection Interieur ’88: Doorconcept, Belgium | 1988 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Unibind S200 | 1994 |
· Good Design, the Netherland, Bova , Futura Coach | 1995 |
· Good Design , KIDP , Seoul , Korea , Chefline Cosmo | 1995 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Unibind S125 | 1997 |
· Bronze Medal , KOTRA , Seoul , South-Korea , Chefline Cosmo | 1997 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Unibind S425 | 1997 |
· Good Design , KIDP , Seoul , Korea , Anam Electronics , TV Wah Wang III | 1998 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Unibind S1025 | 2000 |
· Design Museum Ghent (BE) – 4 selections for an exhibition on 100 years of product design in Belgium, including the Samsonite Focus (1986) and the Röwa Genio (1999). This exhibition has been touring Europe since then. | 2001 |
· Design Plus, ISH 2001 Messe, Frankfurt, Germany, Vaillant Ecotec | 2001 |
· Design Plus, ISH 2001 Messe, Frankfurt, Germany, Vaillant Ecovit | 2001 |
· Design Plus, ISH 2001 Messe, Frankfurt, Germany, Vaillant Ecocompact | 2001 |
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· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Vaillant | 2002 |
· Design Plus, ISH 2003 Messe, Frankfurt, Germany, Vaillant , for 7 different models | 2003 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, Hannover Messe, Germany, Etap K6 – K9 | 2004 |
· IF Gute Industrieform, , vrnetDIALOG, HAnnover Messe, 2005, Vaillant | 2005 |
· Various awards ( list needs updating) : various from IF, Red Dot, Henry Van de Velde, etc… | 2005 – Now |
Note : various design awards, especially for IF Gute Industrieform, to be shared with collegues.