Cole Stapleton

TEAMS is a multi-award winning, global strategic design company with 5 studios and over 100 professionals, including strategists, researchers, designers, and engineers, all with diverse backgrounds. You can think of us as a powerful mix, just like our brand colors. We specialize in brand-specific product- and interaction design, providing user experience research, innovation strategy, and design realization for consumer goods, capital goods, transportation & mobility, medical & healthcare, building & infrastructure, and professional equipment. With over 70 years of experience and over 1.500 acclaimed design awards, we are one of the most decorated and experienced independent design agencies in the world. Our design studios are strategically located in Chicago, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Shanghai and Amsterdam. Whether physical or digital, to us, the word ‘design’ transcends what is tangible and also includes services, results, solutions and ideas that help a brand or company to achieve their mission. Our expertise to take concepts from strategy to realization sets us apart and makes us experts in delivering design that can be successfully implemented and sustained. Our goal is to provide solutions that matter and to realize their full potential. We exist to inspire people with the everyday, every day. We do this by striving to understand and reflect needs and desires equally, to collaborate on a personal eye-to-eye level, and by building a creative and diverse global team. That is what we see as the keys to long-term success from which people, brands, and products all benefit: we create sustainable designs for a better life for everyone.