Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen
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| Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen | |
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| Born | 1978 Skørping, Denmark |
| Education | Stud.Math |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Spouse | Katrine Weber |
| Parents | Thomas Kjær Hougesen, Birthe Lynggaard Hougesen |
| Website | |
| http://www.threads.dk/who_we_are/ | |
Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen (born 1978) is a Danish serial entrepreneur and a design and IT specialist. He is active in a number of consultancy networks, amongst others DABGO[1] He is the owner of the design firm Threads[2] which was founded in 2004 by himself and his brother.[3]
After working in the fashion industry and seeing the conditions in Asian factories,[4] they decided to go another way, a longer, slower and tougher one.[5] Which resulted in an ethically correct production model for producing handmade goods in Asia. Their first iteration of applying this model has resulted in the apparel brand Bythreads.[6]
He has worked and lived for several year in Innsbruck, Austria & Tokyo, Japan where he gained a minimalistic approach to design evident in so many of his designs[7][8] & products.[9]
Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen is co-founder of Northernmind a Scandinavian Startup incubator whose sole purpose is to create viable business with special focus on medical company/it & web technologies amongst others carecord.com.[10]
He has been a Creative Director[11] for several companies.
He fences and has participated in the Danish Championship for Seniors fencers where he was placed 28th.
He is the co-author of Super Samurai[12] an advanced flash book.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.dabgo.net/ Danes Abroad Business Group Online
- ^ http://www.threads.dk/ Multidisciplinary Design Bureau
- ^ http://www.shougesen.dk/ Søren Lynggaard Hougesen
- ^ http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/brutal-bangladesh-sweatshops-exposed-42976.html brutal sweatshops
- ^ http://www.bythreads.com/the_story/ A model for doing business with hearth
- ^ http://www.bythreads.com Bythreads apparel brand homepage
- ^ http://threads.dk/cases/archived/banc_afrique/ Numbers based covers for the World Bank of Afrika
- ^ http://threads.dk/cases/archived/african_development_bank/ Generative graphics for the World Bank
- ^ http://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/01/minimal-notebook-shouldercase.html Minimalistic Shouldercase at Swiss-Miss
- ^ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/carecord
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/khougesen/ Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen on linkedin
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Macromedia-Flash-Samurai-Eric-Dolecki/dp/0201771446 ISBN 978-0-201-77144-2
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