Business Development Director,
Design Board , Belguim
As a creative design professional with more than 40 years experience in Packaging Design for major FMCG companies throughout Europe and Eastern Europe, Rowland's function is to help and advise clients improve the effectiveness of their brand packaging.
He frequently gives training workshops to major companies, helping their marketing teams understand the dynamics of the supermarket sales environment, showing how design can improve their brand's presence on shelf and communicate effectively to consumers.
Supported by a team of more than 60+ design professionals in Eastern and Western Europe, Design Board, can bring value at all levels of the development chain, Market Understanding — Creative Development — Creative Delivery.
Rowland Heming is a co-founder of Europe’s only Package Design Association PDA-Europe (Pan European Brand Design Association — since 1990), with more that 70 Corporate members in 19 countries.
He is also a lecturer for the Executive Master’s course in Marketing and Publicity in Brussels Solvay University as well as lecturing on Package Design and Branding throughout Europe and Eastern Europe.
Yesterday Apple shook the world again with their new product – iPhone 4 which is sure to change the way we read and communicate
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Yesterday, June 17, the betacup (a project aimed at finding a more convenient alternative to the reusable coffee cup) and Starbucks Coffee Company...
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“For an average consumer the value of branding is down to making the right choice”

Sara Jones, Creative Director at brand development and packaging design agency Anthem Worldwide, shares her round up of the top five print innovations, which have the potential to create real standout, as long as they’re used to enhance –- rather than ‘be’ -- the brand idea.
If you had to choose the ultimate business super power, what would it be? Big budgets, global reach, an innovation pipeline full to bursting, a PR machine capable of generating positive press 24/7? Without hesitation, I answered “agility.”
Cheryl Swanson, Head of Toniq, once again explores the consumer trends for different age groups in the USA.
Before we had Apple Macs, Photoshop and a myriad of other programmes, design centered on tradition and craftsmanship, on the physical and the tactile. Yet now, we see the worlds of digital design and physical craftsmanship joining to create new expressions and celebrations of the power of making.
There’s a natural relationship between the style of our daily surroundings and how we feel. A great space can make us feel better, more hopeful and even more productive. And we often use our own space to express a vision of ourselves.

