New perspectives and new insight strengthen local businesses

By Rie Nielsen

Because designers can make a difference in industry, too, and newly qualified designers have insight into the latest new trends and production methods. Kolding is home to several design-related study programmes, all of which grapple with the fact that businesses are unaware of their potential. Therefore, the local job centre and Business Kolding work closely together with the schools and organise yearly events to give companies insight into the skill sets of newly qualified designers.

Companies eager to live up to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals or to make their production more sustainable can invite newly qualified designers to help them change procedures or find alternatives.

In recent years, the unemployment rate of design graduates has plummeted, and more have found employment. Nevertheless, graduates still have difficulties gaining a foothold in the labour market and unemployment rates therefore continue to be high.

Read more and learn how a design manager has put his skills to good use in a local development department and how a special collaboration between the University of Southern Denmark and Design School Kolding helps to bridge the gap between business community and design graduates.

Kolding-based study programmes in design

• Design Management

• Design Studies

• Industrial Design

• IT Product Development

• Communication Design

• Fashion and Textile

• Web Communication Design

• Sound Design