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Design Council chosen to review Jersey's Esplanade Quarter
20 June 2017
Design Council has been appointed by the Department of the Environment to review and support the development of the Esplanade Quarter Masterplan in St. Helier, Jersey. Design Council and the States of Jersey selected an...
Time To Say It Out Loud: Our Society Is Writing Off Ageing
19 June 2017
What do you want to be when you’re older? A common question asked of children. But why are we not asking people over 50 the same question? Getting old is life. But it seems to me that we are failing to inspire people to pursue...
The seven tenets of human-centred design
13 June 2017
Design Council Spark has been turning bright ideas into brilliant products for over three years now. Since its inception Spark's core belief has remained consistent: good design must be human-centred. If it doesn’t work for all...
Our response to the 2017 UK general election
9 June 2017
Today we woke up to yet another shock after a UK election and we wait to see the outcome of the Prime Minister's negotiations to form a government over the coming days. For the country many questions will remain on what the...
Design Council on GE2017
8 June 2017
With election day upon us, we look ahead to how design can help the British economy grow and what the next government can do to see us through a period of uncertainty. On Monday morning, the in-tray for a returning or incoming...
Rise of the Robots. Technology is moving on but are humans being left behind?
2 June 2017
As the election looms, the familiar 'education, education, education' mantra is loud and proud – promises of more funding for primary schools, grammar schools and the abolition of tuition fees. But as intelligent machines silently...
Growth: Creating a sustainable design concept for the mass market
1 June 2017
Good, human-centred product design does not contribute to landfill. That’s the sentiment deeply held by Bike and Begum Ayaskan, the London design sisters who were finalists in our Design Council Spark 2016 programme with their...
Audio: What does ageing mean to you?
30 May 2017
What's the first word you think of when you hear the word 'ageing'? What would have the most impact on your life as you age? These are just two of the questions that we asked those who came along to our Transform Ageing events in...
The graduate designer that Google is searching for
26 May 2017
Mustafa Kurtuldu is Design Advocate at a little-known company called Google. Chris Finnegan caught up with him to discuss what skills they look for in a graduate designer, strategic design use and why Google got behind our Design...
Join us, Google and Barclays to discuss the importance of design talent at New Designers '17
23 May 2017
The 32nd New Designers exhibition starts on 28 June this year. The event will bring together design education, design consumers and the design industry to celebrate and recognise the next generation of graduate designers. Design...
Designer VS Developer: the separation between creativity and state
18 May 2017
How do we link the two ideas of designer VS developer? Does the problem lie in the way we teach the subjects, and if so, do we need to rethink the education system? As we open the call for Design Academy 2017-18, Google's Mustafa...
Learning Self-Care from Yangzhou: a World Healthy City
16 May 2017
What does a healthy city look like? In the Chinese city of Yangzhou, buildings, public spaces, social programmes and the food sector have been organised to help citizens stay healthy. Urban design expert Graham Marshall and...