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Design is key to business success in challenging times
2 February 2018
Businesses supported by Design Council over a ten year period survive longer and grow faster than average UK businesses, according to independent research. 91% of businesses supported by Design Council between 2002 and 2014 were...
How Design Council Spark kick-started a difficult design project
1 February 2018
Nick Rawcliffe is a mechanical engineer who joined the Spark programme with his innovative folding cycle helmet. An idea he’d been kicking around for a while, Spark gave him the impetus to move the project forward. Nick is a keen...
Jo Arscott: Britain's first black female Creative Director
31 January 2018
Globally experienced, award-winning and hugely creative, Jo Arscott has worked with and represented billion-dollar brands such as Coca-Cola and Proctor & Gamble across the UK, North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Her career...
Celebrating Leading Women in Design
30 January 2018
6 February 2018 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which for the first time granted some women the right to vote in the UK.
To mark this anniversary Design Council...
The road to good design
23 January 2018
At the start of the Year of Engineering, a government campaign to get many thousands of younger people to consider engineering as a career, Highways England have set out their design vision: “We aim to put people at the heart of...
Designers need skills to lead and skills to disrupt
17 January 2018
Design Council caught up with Peter Fullagar, Head of Innovation at Kinneir Dufort to talk about design and innovation and the skills designers need today and in the future. Ten years ago, creativity was at the bottom of the top...
Dyslexia and design
9 January 2018
Is Dyslexia a weakness or a strength? Designers Ab Rogers and Jim Rokos discuss how they feel dyslexia enables them to think differently and how, in a moment when the work industry is more threatened than ever by the growing power...
Camcup – Spark's solution to our environmental coffee cup crisis
8 January 2018
Camcup is a re-usable cup made using the waste produced by our global caffeine addiction – spent coffee grounds. Inventors Gareth Roberts and Dr Xiaobin Zhao came up with the product as a way to showcase their new fusion of plant...
Design Council responds to '25p Latte levy' with 0p cost solution
5 January 2018
Design Council were pleased to see the published report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee highlighting the need for urgent measures to be taken to effectivly and in an environmentally beneficial way dispose...
Design Council CEO Sarah Weir looks back on 2017
19 December 2017
I remember the first time I walked through the doors of Design Council, taking up my role as Chief Executive Officer of this iconic and impactful organisation. I felt I had a good idea of what the role would entail. However, what...
Olympic design five years on: The role design played in creating a legacy for people and place
18 December 2017
In 2012, after seven years of careful planning, design and construction, a forgotten patch of London was transformed to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Five years on, we look at the legacy of the games and the role of...
Video: Design Council on London LIVE
11 December 2017
Design Council CEO Sarah Weir OBE and our Director of Policy and Communications, Sally Benton, appeared on London LIVE to discuss the findings of our Designing a future economy research and its implications for London and the...