Tim Brown (designer)
Tim Brown (born June 24, 1962 in Preston ) is an English industrial designer. He is CEO and President of IDEO , an international design and innovation consultancy. Brown is an important representative of the innovation method Design Thinking .
Life
Tim Brown graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 1986 and has been with IDEO since 1987. From 1990 to 1995 he was head of the San Francisco office and from 1995 to 2000 he was head of European operations. In 2000 David Kelley made him CEO of IDEO. In 2005 he was appointed visiting professor of design at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, England.
Tim Brown is married with two children.
Awards
In 2004 Tim Brown received an honorary doctorate from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (USA) .
Fonts
- Strategy by Design , Fast Company, 2005.
- Design Thinking , Harvard Business Review, 2008.
- Change by design. Harper Collins, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-176608-4 .
Web links
- Design Thinking Blog by Tim Brown
- Tim Brown's biography on ideo.com, accessed February 22, 2010
- Information about Tim Brown (PDF; 325 kB) in McKinsey Quarterly
- Tim Brown urges designers to think big , talk from July 2009 at the TED conference in Oxford
- Products For a New Age , In: Metropolis Magazin. , March 2009.
References
- ↑ MIT World: Innovation Through Design Thinking ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Video of Tim Brown's lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 26, 2006)
- ↑ BusinessWeek: The Power Of Design Cover story about IDEO (May 17, 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Tim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Timothy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British industrial designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Preston |