The Master of Design Innovation Graduate Program and the Department of Industrial Design continue the Spring 2023 Sharp Edges Design Speaker Series with José Manuel dos Santos: LEADING WITH DESIGN. 

Signify is one of the most successful modern stories of digital transformation and José leads a practice vital to that continued success. With a PhD focused on design leadership, and heading MassArt’s 2023 Design Leadership Lab at MassArt, José brings both a scholarly and practiced perspective to the topic of leading with design.

Register via Eventbrite and join MassArt's design community on Thursday, March 16 at 6:30pm at the Huntington Studio, MassArt Design and Media Center, 621 Huntington Ave in Boston. This event is free and open to the public, with limited seating!

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José Manuel dos Santos is a designer, thought leader and passionate entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in design and design management. He began his career in Portugal as an industrial designer, and went on to form and sell two European product design companies. He worked as Industrial Design Director in Barcelona and led a large Internet company in Lisbon as Chief Design Officer. In 2011, dos Santos came to the US and joined Fortune 500 company Masco as Design Director, and in 2016 joined Signify (formerly PHILIPS Lighting) as Head of Design Americas.

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SHARP EDGES DESIGN SPEAKER SERIES

Interesting Discussions with interesting People

Presented by MassArt's Design Innovation Graduate Program and the Department of Industrial Design

Sharp Edges brings together leading voices in the design world to explore topics at the forefront of the field. Hosted by MassArt professors James Read, Chair of Industrial Design Department and Ben Little, Director of Design Innovation, our first series of speakers explores ethics, leadership, and ecosystems from design leader perspectives.