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Take 5: Morag Myerscough 2014
1 December 2013
The Design Council team is excited to launch a new series of events called take 5 at the end of January 2014. These design talks will take place on the last Thursday of every other month at our home in the Angel Building. The...
Visibility through design
15 November 2013
Clive Grinyer is Director of Customer Experience at Cisco, the multinational designer and manufacturer of networking equipment. He founded Tangerine with Jonathan Ive and Martin Darbyshire in 1989, Clive has since worked at IDEO,...
Estate of the nation
12 November 2013
Council estates and the great estates of central London have more in common than one might think – yet only one faces the threat of demolition. There’s a new exhibition looking at London's great estates called 'How London’s...
Service designer Katie Harris of The Amazings on overcoming barriers
6 November 2013
Katie Harris is a service designer, businesswoman and the brains behind two highly successful projects helping retirees to stay active and connected: NANA and The Amazings. Katie talked to us about the challenges she faced along...
In defence of… Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre
30 October 2013
Despite the fact that it never became the icon of 60's Britain its developers hoped, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre still holds a hidden beauty for those prepared to see it. For most Londoners, the Elephant & Castle Shopping...
Knee High Challenge: choosing 25 teams to improve children’s lives
24 October 2013
Design Council's Ella Britton explains how we selected the 25 ideas to fund as part of the next stage of the Knee High Design Challenge. After 2 months of sharing the Knee High Design Challenge call for ideas with as many...
In defence of… Preston Central Bus Station
16 October 2013
I like 'ugly buildings'. They have an interesting story to tell about utopian visions, great expectations and a better future. When the secretary of state, Ed Vaizey, decided to finally list Preston Bus Station, one of the UK's...
Berg on designing the future of the magazine
13 October 2013
Bonnier are a 200 year old family-owned Scandinavian publishing company with a significant portfolio of US magazines. Around the end of 2009 they realised that magazines were evolving. Bonnier believed that there would probably be...
Design in the government procurement process
11 October 2013
Yesterday the Cabinet Office brought to a close its consultation on how to make public sector procurement more accessible to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The consultation is in part a response to Lord Young’s report ...
Three things I learnt about open design
10 October 2013
Open design might be a hot topic, but it’s not new at all From swapping recipes in search of the perfect cake, to altering a dress pattern to make it fit just-so, we are probably all familiar with the principles of open design,...
Big in Japan: Cabe leads the way in the far East
16 September 2013
The Japanese Institute of Architects (JIA) are looking to establish an organisation like Cabe in Japan. Design Council Cabe and the services we offer were high on the agenda at this year's annual convention of the JIA in Sapporo....
Our push for new government strategy to deliver good design in the built environment
10 September 2013
Ahead of this year’s party conferences, we have called for a new cross-government strategy and a commitment from all political parties to deliver and inspire public demand for high quality design in the built environment. Through...