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Designit
Company typePrivate
IndustryStrategic design
Product design
Brand and communications
Interactive design
Service design
Digital design
Design research
Innovation Strategy
Founded1991
Headquarters,
Denmark
Key people
David Fellah, CEO Main Markets
Anders Geert, CEO Expanding Markets
Mikal Hallstrup, Chief Visionary Officer
Number of employees
309 (2014)
Websitewww.designit.com

Designit is an international strategic design consultancy founded in Denmark in 1991 by Anders Geert Jensen, David Fellah and Mikal Hallstrup.[1] The co-founding partners met at the School of Architecture in Denmark, at the Institute of Industrial Design.

Designit's headquarters are located in Aarhus, Denmark, with other office locations in Barcelona, Copenhagen, Curitiba, Gothenburg, London, Madrid, Munich, Oslo, São Paulo, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. The company employs more than 300 employees.[2]

The agency works in various sectors. Clients range from start-ups to small and medium enterprises and large enterprises like Audi, Banco Santander, Better Place, Electrolux, Novo Nordisk, Harman Kardon and Telefonica.[3]

‪Designit has won a variety of design awards,[4] including 37 International Forum Design (iF) awards since 2001,[4] where they rank #24 in their creative rankings list,[5] red dot awards and GOOD design awards. In 2012 a Red Dot 'best of the best' was awarded for the NovoPen® 5 [6] interaction design features [7] and in 2013 an iF product design Gold award was given for the Falck first-aid kit.[8]

Notes

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  1. ^ "FAKTA Designit på globalt erobringstogt". Børsen. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  2. ^ "Designgazelle angriber Brasilien". Børsen. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  3. ^ "Work". Designit. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  4. ^ a b "Winner's Exhibition; iF ONLINE EXHIBITION". Exhibition.ifdesign.de. 2011-03-28. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  5. ^ "iF - International Forum Design Hannover: Ranking tables". Ifdesign.de. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  6. ^ "NovoPen® 5 - Novo Nordisk A/S". Novonordisk.com. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  7. ^ "red dot award: product design". En.red-dot.org. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  8. ^ "Beitragsdetails iF ONLINE EXHIBITION". Exhibition.ifdesign.de. 2011-03-28. Retrieved 2013-07-09.