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Design Council launches 'Designing a future economy' report
6 December 2017
Today Design Council published ‘Designing a Future Economy: Developing design skills for productivity and innovation’. A year in the making, this comprehensive report is the first time that the economic value of design skills to...
How do we define design skills?
6 December 2017
As debate rages on as to how the UK best capitalises on the technological changes being brought by the fourth industrial revolution, Design Council has been leading the conversation about the key role design skills can play. But...
Interview: Richie Manu
6 December 2017
As someone who has worked and works in education, how important do you think ‘design thinking’ is to the future stars of the world? It is vital that students, graduates and emerging creatives not only just understand what ‘design...
Design Council responds to Skills Summit event
30 November 2017
The Department for Education and the CBI today hosted their first ever Skills Summit, bringing together experts from education and large employers, with a view to tackling the nations skills gap. This event was an important step...
A traffic free Oxford Street, why now?
30 November 2017
With the announcement by Sadiq Khan of a project to remove traffic from Oxford Street, the response from the single mode transport groups and the resident societies is the inevitable cry of "what about us?" Change is always a...
Interview: Martin Darbyshire of tangerine
30 November 2017
If you heard someone say ‘tangerine’, you would assume that they were talking about the fruit and you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. However, for us at Design Council ‘tangerine’ is much more than just a fruit, it is a London...
A brief history of the measurement of design
30 November 2017
How do you measure the value of design and designers? Ahead of the launch of our latest research exploring the value of design skills, Stephen Miller reviews how the measurement of design has evolved over recent years. This is...
On the Industrial Strategy 2017
28 November 2017
Today’s publication of the Industrial Strategy has made clear the government’s commitment to improve productivity and create better, high-paying jobs across the country. We welcome that the role and importance of design has been...
Design Council respond to Chancellor’s Budget investment for housing
28 November 2017
After months of anticipation, the Chancellor (Philip Hammond) announced his Autumn Budget. The Budget included a number of expected announcements, such as the increase in the personal allowance, the rise in the national living...
Design Council's response to the 2017 Budget
28 November 2017
Today’s Budget made a number of positive announcements including the £2.3 billion invested into R&D, the development of the National Retraining Scheme, £84 million to upskill 8,000 computer science teachers, £42 million to pilot a...
Transform Ageing: Lessons from our participants
27 November 2017
What did we do? Transform Ageing is a pioneering programme taking a community and design led approach to improve people’s experience of ageing. Bringing together people in later life, social entrepreneurs and public sector...
Sexism in design: “I have been cowed, intimidated and embarrassed”
27 November 2017
According to ‘The Design Economy’ (our study published in 2015 highlighting the makeup of the UK design industry), we found that the design workforce was made up by a 78:22 gender split (men versus women), whereas the wider...