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Government launches new National Design Guide completed by Tibbalds and Design Council
8 October 2019
A new visual design guide for the UK planning system completed by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design and Design Council, working closely with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), has been launched. ...
Design Council party conference round up 2019
4 October 2019
At times over the last two months we couldn’t be sure that the party conference season would even take place. But now it is over, and we can look back on dramas inside the conference halls –contested votes, controversial speeches,...
The Double Diamond: A universally accepted depiction of the design process
1 October 2019
From humble beginnings to a cornerstone of design language The Double Diamond is a visual representation of the design and innovation process. It’s a simple way to describe the steps taken in any design and innovation project,...
Designing products for people in later life – meet the Spark ventures
26 September 2019
Since 2014, Spark has helped more than 140 entrepreneurs across the country get their ideas off the ground, focussing on developing products which tackle societal challenges such as ageing. Here are some of the ventures that have...
Transform Ageing through Design
25 September 2019
The Transform Ageing programme is taking a design-led approach to ageing, by bringing people in later life, social entrepreneurs and public sector leaders together to think differently. Here are three films that demonstrate the...
Councils across UK to learn ‘whatever the challenge, design has an answer’
23 September 2019
Street crime, domestic violence and climate change are just some of the tough issues that will be tackled head-on by councils selected for the latest Design in the Public Sector (DiPS) programme, which begins on 3 October 2019. L...
The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Centre, Oldham
17 September 2019
In the corridor of an NHS hospital in Edinburgh a big idea was born. It would change the type of care given and support received for anyone affected by cancer. Maggie Keswick Jencks was given three months to live and then asked...
Find out how we’re making our A&Es safer places to work
3 September 2019
Violence in our A&Es costs the NHS at least £69m a year in staff absences alone, with as many as 59,000 physical assaults on staff a year. The most recent NHS staff survey showed that more than 15% of NHS employees have...
The Double Diamond: 15 years on
3 September 2019
Click here to download our NEW Framework for Innovation The below article was originally posted on Medium Any service designer will have heard of the ‘Double Diamond’. And probably many other designers will have too. It was...
What happens when you bring 30 students together, living 5,976 miles apart, and ask them to design ‘The Ideal City’ in just 5 days?
22 August 2019
The word collaborate is thrown around all the time these days, especially when it comes to the world of design. I understand the word and I like to think I put it into practice daily. However, it wasn’t quite until last month that...
V&A Innovate: Inspiring the next generation to become the designers of tomorrow
20 August 2019
We invited Helen Charman, Director of Learning & National Programmes at the V&A, to tell us more about the launch of V&A Innovate, their school-based initiative that is seeking to inspire young people about the value of design...
Catherine Horwill argues that housing planning needs people placed at the centre
7 August 2019
Recently, Design Council was asked to attend an RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) housing debate in Birmingham that posed the question ‘quality or quantity?’ – a proposition that hints at our national problem; there are...