Trygve Ask is Senior Project Manager at Scandinavian Business Seating AS, owner of the office chair brands HÅG, RBM and RH. He is an industrial designer and dr. ing. (PhD) from Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) with the dissertation Good Norwegian Design: The establishment of industrial design as a profession in Norway (Oslo, 2004). He is a visiting lecturer in design history at AHO.