Zuzanna Skalska

Design, business and innovations trend analyst

Trendwatcher. She predicts trends and phenomena in various industries. Awarded with multiple prestigous awards in design. International ambassador and co-founder of SWPS University’s School of Form.

Born in Warsaw, for last 23 years has been living in the Netherlands. She studied in Design Academy Eindhoven and Royal Academy for Art and Design, Den Bosch. After graduation in 1998 she embarked on a career as Sensorial Trend Analyst in Strategy Department in Philips Design where she was a team member of revolutionary Ambient intelligent project. Since 2001 for 13 years she used to work for one of the biggest project studios VanBerlo in Eindhoven where she was responsible for monitoring trends in various industries.

Currently, she is working on her own brand 360 Inspiration. Among her clients there are small, medium and large enterprises. She lectures at TU/e Univeristy in Eindhoven AT the faculty of Industrial Design and at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. She is the author of book series about trends - „360˚Trend Reports” awarded nagrodzonych Red Dot Design Awards 2009. She writes a blog 360inspiration.nl. Zuzanna Skalska is often a capitulary at various innovation and design competitions.