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Rob Huisman is the director of Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers (BNO) (Association of Dutch Designers). The BNO promotes the business, social and cultural interest of designers in the Netherlands. Its most important task is to provide support and advice to members in performing their profession. Rob is a board member of Pictoright, Design Platform Eindhoven, de Beyerd and Stichting Best verzorgde Boeken. Huisman: "Well designed products have a cultural and economic function. It is that combination of functions that gives a design its uniqueness and currency. Design makes the world more beautiful, but at the same time it is possible to make a great deal of money with it."
Company name:
Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers.
Company founding date:
1 January 2004.
Place of business:
Amsterdam.
Names of founders:
Dutch designers.
Ages of founders:
All ages.
About the company:
Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers (BNO) is the professional association of designers and design agencies in the Netherlands. The BNO unites and represents more than 2,500 designers and design agencies and company departments in all the different design disciplines. The BNO is dedicated to promoting the business, social and cultural interests of its members.
Current project:
Too many to mention all, but two of them are the internationalization of the design industry and research into the added value of design.
Source of inspiration:
Glenn Gould
My big idea:
That good design makes the world a better place in two different ways, namely, economically and socially.
Favourite tools:
My Amsterdam city bicycle.
Favourite website:
www.buienradar.nl
Hobby:
Everything I enjoy doing is a hobby.
Best advice I ever received:
No idea!
Biggest blunder:
Going to a black tie party in London wearing a bowtie and a red sports jacket.
Tips for professional colleagues:
My colleagues are the executive boards of other industry associations. My tip for them is: Don’t employ anyone who could be a member of your industry association.
As an ambassador of Amsterdam, I would...
Continue to live in Amsterdam.
Company website:
www.bno.nl
Company email address:
Web 2.0:
Aren’t we in the Web 3.0 phase already?
