Two major appointments this week for two renowned Dutch designers: Rogier van der Heide is announced as Chief Design Officer for Philips Lighting and Jurgen Bey will become the new director of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Jurgen Bey will be the new director of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam as of September 1st 2010. The Sandberg Institute is part of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and hosts its three MA programmes in the field of Fine Arts & Design. Bey will replace Jos Houweling who will retire this July.
Over the last year design education in Holland has undergone some dramatic changes all established to ensure that graduates come out of schools with the sort of knowledge that the evolving design industry now demands. The latest announcement is that leading Dutch designer Jurgen Bey will assume directorship of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam from September of this year.
Jurgen Bey is an internationally renowned designer, his work intertwines concepts derived from art and industrial design. In 2002 he was one of the founders of studio Makkink&Bey. Besides his work as a designer he is currently a senior tutor at the Royal College of Art in London. Previously he taught at the Hochschule fur Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Bey received several awards for his work, and sits on juries and advisory committees.
As director of the Sandberg Institute, Bey aims to create links between the multidisciplinary Sandberg Institute, the bachelor programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and other institutes of knowledge and research.
Rogier van der Heide will begin his new position as Chief Design Officer for Philips Lighting on 1 March, 2010. The role of Chief Design Officer has already been established within the Philips Consumer Lifestyle and Healthcare Sectors.
“Lighting design can explore new and unique ways that lighting can meet people’s needs and aspirations through form, function and emotion. Rogier’s work has shown that he truly understands how to simply enhance people’s lives with light. By bringing Rogier into the design leadership of the company we are strengthening our commitment to the field of lighting design and becoming a better partner for our customers,” says Stefano Marzano, CEO Philips Design and Chief Design Officer for Philips.
The Dutch-born lighting designer brings twenty years of experience in design-led innovation and the creation of lighting solutions. Van der Heide is internationally recognized as one of the leading architectural lighting design specialists and has been awarded many of the industry’s most prestigious awards, including the Lighting Designer of the Year Award 1998, the International Association of Lighting Design Radiance Award in 2005 and the International Lighting Design Award of Excellence in 2005 and 2006. Until recently, he was Director at Arup and Global Business Leader Lighting Design of Arup Lighting.
Additionally, Van der Heide is one of five international designers commissioned by Swarovski Crystal Palace to create an installation to be launched during the Milan Furniture Fair this year.
Via: Design.nl
