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Designing our Future at New Designers
22 June 2015
Overview Design Council presents Designing our Future at New Designers Part 2. New Designers Part 2 showcases over 1,500 of the UK's most promising design graduates from the disciplines of product, industrial, visual and spatial...
Highlights from our Leading Business by Design Summit 2015
19 June 2015
On 18 June 2015, we welcomed manufacturers, business leaders, designers and policymakers to our annual summit at Birmingham City University. We explored how design methods are being used to drive positive change within UK...
When the park runs itself: creating a legacy for a Pop up Park
17 June 2015
Last year we announced the three funded teams for our Knee High Design Challenge aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of children under five in Lambeth and Southwark. Here Tom Doust, finalist and founder of Pop up Parks,...
Ones to Watch: street stories
11 June 2015
One to Watch Jack Bardwell, currently working at Thomas.Matthews, discusses how exploring is a key aspect of London urban living. Roaming in your city is an educational and political act. A growing mistrust of the media and how...
Ross Harrison Q&A: 'Engage suppliers early in the design and engineering process'
10 June 2015
Our new research conducted for the Leading Business by Design Summit explores the impact design has on the manufacturing sector, and takes an in-depth look at how it could positively affect supply chains. We spoke to Ross...
National Health Service managers must manage design as well as people
8 June 2015
Craig Thatcher is a branding consultant, director of www.frasers.eu.com, and is passionate about helping clients to use design and branding better. He is an author of Continuous Branding, a book for service-based organisations...
DeSID report examines the growth of service design
4 June 2015
A much needed recent report Design for Service Innovation & Development (DeSID) takes a rigorous look at service design through six case studies and a survey of 49 design agencies internationally. The DeSID research gives a rich...
Q&A: Paul Priestman on product design
3 June 2015
Paul Priestman is co-founder of PriestmanGoode, a leading global design and brand experience consultancy that specialises in transport and aviation. He has built his reputation through award-winning future concepts and has been...
Lean and good design – a marriage made in heaven?
2 June 2015
Dr Steve Chicken CEng MIED is Manufacturing Growth Director at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation. EEF is exhibiting its Lean Academy at Design Council’s Leading Business by Design Summit on 18 June. Follow this link to register...
Ones to Watch: Changing the face of the NHS: Can it learn from the retail industry?
1 June 2015
Neethu Mathew is the designer of screw-less, superelastic glasses and a Ones to Watch winner. Here she talks about whether a more customer-led approach could improve NHS services. There is no doubt that technology has become...
Queen’s Speech 2015: our response
27 May 2015
Today’s Queen’s speech offered more detail on how the new government plans to fulfil its ambitions. I believe design has a critical role to play in helping deliver many of the proposed initiatives, particularly in the key areas...
Crowdfunding: changing how you bring a product to market
26 May 2015
We’ve been working with Crowdfunder to further support the participants of the Design Council Spark product innovation fund and accelerator. Here Jess Ratty, Brand Communications Manager at Crowdfunder, discusses how you can use...