About

mdnpress is a venue for thinking and writing for Damien Newman. Originally set up to publish the Designer’s Guide to Brand Strategy, mdn press is a place for brand, business & design thoughts.

mdn press is managed by Damien Newman, who previously was a partner of the Central Office of Design, a design consultancy based in the Bay Area of San Francisco.

Through Central, Damien worked with organizations to improve their performance and success through design and business behaviour. Damien partnered with CEO’s and business leaders to develop long-term strategies and execute them, through developing and creating internal brand strategy, business behaviour and an environment for design thinking.

Damien has enjoyed working for design firms such as frog design and Studio Archetype, as well as with clients both in the US and UK, such as Microsoft, Dell, Motorola, Coca-Cola, SUN, Real Networks, HP and Xerox.

Today, Damien is employed by IDEO in San Francisco.

You can email Damien by sending anything witty and noticeable to the domain name of mdnpress.com.

Disclaimer
All of the opinions expressed on mdnpress.com are those of Damien Newman and do not represent the views of my current employer (IDEO) or any of my previous employers in any way. While I make every effort to present accurate and complete content, I make no claims, promises or guarantees of doing so. If there is a noticeable error please let me know and I will do what I can to correct it. I cannot accept any responsibility or liability for any damages incurred by either a mistake on this web site or through following any inferred or direct advice from this web site.

Let me reinforce a point here - the work, thinking, writing and concepts here are not that of my employer’s or represent any kind of work I indulge in with my employer. For example, if I discuss brand or design thinking topics here on this site, it does not reference, nor is a version of IDEO’s position on brand or design thinking. That should adequately CMA, I hope.

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This web site runs outstandingly well using Word Press. It was initially hand-crafted on a small laptop, using software from Barebones, Adobe and Panic. The site is hosted at Pair Networks, and I doubt very much there is anything close to valid XHTML, HTML, CSS or French language in the code of this site. But it works right?

Most importantly, the typefaces used graphically are Underware’s gorgeous Bello Pro - I recommend any typeface by them, for liberal use or placement.

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