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Listen again to Morag Myerscough's take 5 talk
28 January 2014
Catch the colourful and effervescent Morag Myerscough as she talks about the five themes that shape her work: escaping, exploring, belonging, colour and making. We couldn't have been more excited when Morag Myerscough, founder...
Growing your tech business by design
22 January 2014
Overview This free workshop is designed to help industrial tech start-ups learn how use to design to attract investment, accelerate their technologies to market and reduce risk. We can help in nurture your industrial tech...
Design viability & delivery seminar
22 January 2014
Overview The Cabe team at the Design Council and The Academy of Urbanism invite you to an interactive seminar addressing the challenges of delivering well designed schemes in economically difficult times. The seminar will provide...
Government confirms design is key to growth
14 January 2014
New figures published by government confirm that the creative industries are outperforming the UK economy as a whole. Official statistics published by the Department of Culture, Music and Sport, show that the creative industries...
Knee High Design Challenge: announcing the 11 funded teams
13 January 2014
Design Council's Ella Britton announces the 11 teams who we’ll be funding in stage two of the Knee High Design Challenge to test and further develop their ideas. The efforts from the 25 funded teams in the first stage of the...
Leading Business By Design Summit 2014
13 January 2014
We’re delighted to announce that Steph McGovern joins the line-up of top speakers for our Leading Business by Design summit, which will take place on 12 February at the British Museum in London. The award-winning business...
take 5: Morag Myerscough
6 January 2014
Overview Join us at Design Council for the first of our new series of take 5 talks with designers. These will happen on the last Thursday of every other month. 5 insights, 5 questions, 5 pounds The take 5 format is simple. We...
Design Council chosen to deliver €3.8m EU Design Innovation Platform
18 December 2013
We're pleased to announce that we have been chosen to lead a consortium to deliver the European Design Innovation Platform (EDIP) – a project to increase the use of design for innovation and growth across Europe, financed by the...
Knee High Design Challenge: community kitchens and musical theatre
9 December 2013
Design Council's Mollie Courtenay brings together updates from five of the twenty-five teams developing projects to improve children's lives as part of our Knee High Design Challenge. The Knee High Design Challenge aims to...
Knee High Design Challenge team updates: apps and double-decker buses
5 December 2013
Design Council's Mollie Courtenay brings together updates from five of the twenty-five teams developing projects to improve children's lives as part of our Knee High Design Challenge. The Knee High Design Challenge aims to...
In defence of... the Heygate Estate
3 December 2013
Despite its reputation as a sink estate, the Heygate was a great example of council housing on large scale and one that could have enjoyed a second life. I like 'ugly buildings'. They have an interesting story to tell about...
Cabinet’s new Policy Lab should boost design for policy making
3 December 2013
Interest in design for policy is likely to increase in early 2014 when the UK Cabinet Office launches a new Policy Lab to ‘work on live issues with policy teams to test how different techniques and tools can improve the pace,...