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Designing Demand: Sir Alan Jones

Sir Alan Jones - 09 September 2008

Duration: 29 minutes

Size: 26MB

Sir Alan Jones, of Toyota, Chairman of SEMTA and Diploma Champion for Employers, on the need to develop the right skills for business, the importance of design skills and the importance of the skills agenda for the future of industry.

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Designing Demand: Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour - 09 September 2008

Duration: 14 minutes

Size: 12MB

Richard Seymour, Director of SeymourPowell on his definition of design: making things better for people.

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Designing Demand: Tom Riordan

Tom Riordan - 09 September 2008

Duration: 12 minutes

Size: 11MB

Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Yorkshire Forward on the regional economy, why Designing Demand has been important, and why Yorkshire are running a second round of the programme.

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Designing Demand: Jonathan Sands

Jonathan Sands - 09 September 2008

Duration: 9 minutes

Size: 8MB

Jonathan Sands, Chairman of Elmwood brand design consultancy, on working with SMEs and what design can do for business.

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Designing Demand: Ian Pearson MP

Ian Pearson MP - 09 September 2008

Duration: 15 minutes

Size: 13MB

Ian Pearson MP, Minister for Science and Innovation on why investment in design is a necessity and not a luxury for any UK business, particularly in today’s tough economic climate.

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Leading with Design: Ralph Ardill

Ralph Ardill, The Brand Experience Consultancy - 01 May 2008

Duration: 13:26 minutes

Size: 6MB

Ralph Ardill, founder of The Brand Experience Consultancy reflects on his career so far and offers a personal definition of what good design leadership means to him

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Mat Hunter, partner at design and innovation firm IDEO

Leading with Design: Mat Hunter

Mat Hunter, IDEO - 01 May 2008

Duration: 15:24 minutes

Size: 7MB

Mat Hunter from design and innovation firm IDEO offers an insight into his career and outlines the cornerstones of good design leadership

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David Kester, Chief Executive at the Design Council

Leading with Design: David Kester

David Kester - 01 May 2008

Duration: 3:47 minutes

Size: 1MB

Design Council Chief Executive David Kester introduces Leading with Design - an open exchange of insight and ideas with current design leaders Ralph Ardill and Mat Hunter.

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Jeremy Myerson reflects on the key themes to emerge from InterSections 07

InterSections 07: Jeremy Myerson

Jeremy Myerson - Pressing the pause button - 26 October 2007

Duration: 16:26 minutes

Size: 7MB

Jeremy Myerson, Chair of InterSections 07, reflects on some of the key themes to emerge from the conference and considers how design practice has widened its repertoire over recent years

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Frans Johansson speaking at InterSections 07

InterSections 07: Frans Johansson

Frans Johansson - Innovation at the intersection of disciplines and culture - 25 October 2007

Duration: 49:44 minutes

Size: 22MB

What’s the connection between termites and architecture, candy and computers, between sneakers and Hummer and techno music and Martin Luther King? The answer, according to Frans Johansson, lies in the Medici Effect. Find out what he means

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