Mads Kjøller Damkjær

Mads Kjoeller Damkjaer (born 4 April 1975) is a Danish industrial designer,[1] strategist and entrepreneur.[2] A double gold winner at Red Dot Design Awards, If Design Awards, D&AD Awards and Creative Circle Awards. He was Managing Partner at the design and innovation agency Goodmorning Technology [3] (2004-2013) in Copenhagen, London, New York (2008–2010) and Hong Kong (2010–2011) [4] and has founded or co-founded several companies such as Contxt (2002), the Copenhagen Parts [5] (2009) transportation and life style bike parts, PART (2007) and Future fwd (2012). As investor he established the venture company Tomorrow Projects in 2011. He is an adviser and board member at several Start-up Companies as well as organisations as the Danish Design Association and Companies such as the architecture firm SHL/Schmidt Hammer Lassen in Denmark, Singapore, London and China. Mads has had leading roles in managing consulting firms as Implement Consulting Group and PA Consulting Group as Head of Innovation & Strategy and co-owner of the company, he worked for RADI Designers and Robert Stadler in 2003 in Paris and is educated from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen (1999–2004), has studied part of MBA at AVT Business School (2012-2013) and has received certificates from Stanford University (2013-2015), Yale School of Business (2012) and Harvard Business School (2013). In May 2010 he was announced one of the 100 best business people under 35 in the field of innovation in Denmark [6] by Berlingske Business. Mads Kjoeller Damkjaer has won several strategy, innovation and leadership awards. On 17 November 2011 Mads was nominated with the Award by The Danish Design Counsel as one of the greatest talents in Scandinavia.[7]

Designs

Mads Kjoeller Damkjaer has managed design for brands such as Luceplan, Erik Jørgenen, Fritz Hansen and Sony Ericsson. Some of the most known designs include the “Lightscape" lamp for Louis Poulsen [8] and the Bike Porter for Copenhagen Parts. Goodmorning Technology's work has been exhibited internationally such as at Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum [9] in New York City and at the World Expo 2010 [10] in Shanghai.

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ http://www.danishdesignassociation.com/nyheder/2010/ugens-profil-uge-51-mads-kjoeller-damkjaer,-goodmorning-technology.aspx Profil from DDA website
  2. ↑ http://www.fri.dk/node/48753?page=0,5 Article from Fri newspaper
  3. ↑ http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2010/01/goodmorning_technology.html Article from Shft
  4. ↑ http://www.danishdesignassociation.com/nyheder/2011/case-goodmorning-technology---globalt-mindset,-vidensdeling-og-internationale-kunder.aspx Article from DDA website
  5. ↑ http://ffffound.com/image/195f8ec2c43a3bbd86ef6b0af4d1fcb4349f0bac From Ffffound website
  6. ↑ http://www.danishdesignassociation.com/nyheder/2010/mads-kjoeller-damkjaer-blandt-100-ledelsestalenter.aspx Article from The Danish Design Association website
  7. ↑ http://www.danishdesignassociation.com/nyheder/2011/to-dda-medlemmer-faar-designraadets-priser.aspx Article from DDA website
  8. ↑ http://www.louispoulsen.com/en-US
  9. ↑ http://www.cooperhewitt.org/press/imagegallery/triennial/why-design-now/installation Cooper Hewitt
  10. ↑ http://en.expo2010.cn/
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