July 2008
President Emeritus Earl Powell has been elected to receive the Design Management Institute’s highest honor, DMI Life Fellow. It was Earl Powell who guided DMI from a small membership and single-conference organization under the auspices of the Massachusetts College of Art into an independent international research, publishing, and educational institute.
During Earl Powell’s two-decade tenure as president, he initiated a long list of innovative programs that helped gain business prominence for design and established an international reputation for DMI. The TRIAD Design Project, the first international research project on design management, was exhibited worldwide in collaboration with Harvard Business School. The Design Management Review, founded in 1989, and its sister publication, the Journal, contribute to the continued recognition of the importance of design. Design management entered business school curriculum through distribution of DMI case studies by Harvard Business School Publishing.
The DMI member program expanded considerably in scope, and the membership grew many times over in size, depth, and international representation. DMI expanded its repertoire of conferences with the introduction of the highly-regarded DMI Brand and European conferences. Academic researchers worldwide gather frequently at DMI Academic Forums to address issues directly related to the management of design as an economic asset. The DMI seminar program educates hundreds of design and business professionals every year.
In recognition of Earl Powell’s many contributions, the University of Westminster granted him an honorary doctor of letters in 2002. He retired from fulltime management of DMI at the end of 2005. Earl remains active in design and the arts. In 2008 he graduated from the two year Cabinet and Furniture Making Program at the North Bennet Street School in Boston and maintains Brookside Studio in Winchester, Massachusetts.
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