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Design Methods Step 2: Define
18 March 2015
This four-part guide is for anyone who wants to understand the methods designers use and try them out for themselves. We’ve grouped 25 design methods into four steps – Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver – based on the stages...
Design Methods Step 3: Develop
18 March 2015
This four-part guide is for anyone who wants to understand the methods designers use and try them out for themselves. We’ve grouped 25 design methods into four steps – Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver – based on the stages...
Design Methods Step 4: Deliver
18 March 2015
This four-part guide is for anyone who wants to understand the methods designers use and try them out for themselves. We’ve grouped 25 design methods into four steps – Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver – based on the stages...
Designers of the future: Seven ways to make the best even better
17 March 2015
Design Council recently got a group of twenty leading figures from industry and education together to talk about how we can make the best of our design education even better. We know we’re doing a lot right. We have the largest...
Taking your brand into new territories
16 March 2015
Kate Blandford is a design consultant with 20 years’ experience in brand development and packaging. Kate spent eight years as Head of Packaging Design at Sainsbury’s, creating brand strategy and implementing packaging for products...
SH:24 sexual health service launches today
10 March 2015
SH:24 is a new online sexual health service, delivered in partnership with the NHS. The service provides people in Southwark and Lambeth with free STI test kits, information and advice - 24 hours a day. Design Council are a long...
Four step guide to protecting your Intellectual Property internationally
4 March 2015
Nicola Bridgett, Senior International Trade Advisor at UK Trade & Investment, explains how to protect your intellectual property when you come to export. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the government department that helps...
Designing a better Britain – Design Council’s 2015 manifesto
27 February 2015
Design Council is an enterprising charity and the UK Government’s advisor on design. Our work focuses on applying design methodologies to a wide set of challenges in the public and private sectors. We support key policy...
Listen again to Adrian Westaway's take 5 talk
26 February 2015
Listen back to Adrian's magical and charming take 5 talk, as he runs through the top five key inspirations behind his work. As well as being a founder of Special Projects Studio, Adrian could very well be the only designer to be...
take 5: Ben Wright
25 February 2015
Overview take 5 Join us here at Design Council for the latest event in our take 5 talks series. 5 insights, 5 questions, 5 pounds The take 5 format is simple. We invite a designer to share five insights (spending about five...
Transforming public service experience in Scotland
25 February 2015
Design Council is helping to improve public services in Scotland by partnering with Capita, the UK's leading provider of business process outsourcing. We are equipping public service managers with design skills, methods and tools...
Call for partners for Inclusive Environments training
24 February 2015
Alongside industry partners, Design Council’s CEO John Mathers has presented an Action Plan for Inclusive Environments to Stephen Williams MP and Mark Harper MP. Download the Action Plan for Inclusive Environments here T...