Design Council in the media

Creative Boom, 02/02/2012

Cambridge’s position as an international hub for product design will be highlighted by a major Design Council-backed exhibition in February 2012. The Design Icons: Cambridge Innovation Festival demonstrates the contribution of Cambridge design to iconic, ground breaking, best-selling products from around the world.

The Times, 03/02/12, click to download full article

Matching homesless interns with older hosts can solve problems for both. Mark Gould reports.

Sarah-Jane Gould was excited about leaving Nottingham to work as an unpaid intern in the Houses of Parliament. She had arranges accommodation through friends, but at the last minute it fell through.

Rotherham Business News, 02/02/2012

The Design Council is hosting a roadshow in Rotherham this month to help small to medium enterprises (SMEs) access mentoring in how to use design to survive, thrive and grow. The event on February 9 will bring together design experts and business mentors with manufacturing firms to show them that, in spite of current testing economic times, now is the time to take up the subsidised opportunities currently on offer to access mentoring in how to use design to become more innovative, and compete more effectively.

Develop 3D, 27/01/2012

Made North, a design conference ran by Culture North and the Design Council, is taking place at Liverpool’s excellent Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (or FACT) on 22 February.

We’re great advocates of the design industry across the UK getting some recognition - the further away from the Capital the better - so it’s nice to see a new conference for designers in the north of England.

Core 77, 27/01/2012

The second UK Designers Accord Town Hall was held on January 19 at The Design Council offices in London. The event was organised and facilitated by Engage by Design, with sponsorship from The Design Council Challenges Team. People from different industries and ages came together to explore the theme of Social Innovation and what we can do to insure its success. Following an introduction from Zoe Olivia John of Engage by Design and Marianne Guldbrandsen, Head of Design Strategies for the Design Council Challenges Team, six speakers delivered fantastic and thought-provoking presentations

Horticulture Week, 27/01/2012

A regeneration expert and former adviser to HRH the Prince of Wales is to be the new director of urban design watchdog Design Council CABE. Nahid Majid has worked in urban regeneration for more than 20 years and was awarded an OBE in 2006. "This is an important moment in Design Council CABE's development. Now is a time of major change in planning and the built environment," said Majid. She takes up her post in February

Design Week, 24/01/2012

With the Victoria & Albert Museum finalising plans for its spring blockbuster British Design 1948-2012, the museum’s publishing division has released a small aperitif in the form of new book Award Winning British Design. The book, authored by Lily Crowther, designed by Peter & Paul and published by V&A Publishing, concentrates on projects from 1957-1988 which won Design Council Awards.

In fact the awards scheme went under four names during its lifetime. It started out as Designs of the Year, before becoming the Design Centre Awards, the Council of Industrial Design Awards and finally the Design Council Awards.

Planning, 19/01/2012, click here for full article

Built environment watchdog Design Council CABE has appointed a new director to replace Diane Haigh, who resigned last year. Nahid Majid has over twenty years experience in urban regeneration as a professional urban designer. She began her career as urban renaissance manager for the Prince of Wales Foundation for the Built Environment, before becoming associate director of regeneration at Turner and Townsend Construction Management. She also won and ran the project to create the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, appointing architect David Adjaye.

Core 77, 20/01/2012

Creative Front Cambridgeshire is a UK-based business network for creative industries, based at Cambridge's /Anglia Ruskin University. They've been selected by the UK's Design Council to kick off Design Icons, a series of national design events, this February.

Business Weekly, 18/01/2012

A solar powered moss table has won the People’s Choice poll to be included in the Design Icons: Cambridge Innovation Festival exhibition at Anglia Ruskin University (February 8-23). The interactive exhibition, organised by Creative Front and staged at the Ruskin Gallery on the university’s Cambridge campus, will showcase 20 of the most important products designed in Cambridgeshire over the last 40 years

Design Week, 11/01/2011

Barber Osgerby’s London 2012 Olympic Torch and The Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress are among the projects on the longlist for the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Awards. A total of 89 projects have been shortisted across the categories of architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport for the award, which was formerly known as the Brit Insurance Prize.

Telegraph, 10/01/2012, click here to download full article

Continuing our series on dynamic business thinkers, Andrew Davis gets to grips with Gripple fasteners. Gripple is a company whose challenge is expressed in it's name. the Yorkshire based businesses product is the Gripple, an innovative device that its founder, Hugh Facey came up with 26 years ago.

Building Design, 06/01/2012, click here to download full article

The UK's construction industry will be promoted to the world's leading client's during the London Olympics, in an effort to capitalise on the games, spearheaded by 10 Downing Street.

Smart Planet, 05/01/2012

The new year began with news of the knighthood of Apple’s much-admired designer Jonathan Ive, an event that seems to be symbolic of how design is gaining widespread credibility as an effective innovation and business strategy in the U.K. The Design Council, a British charity that researches and promotes design as an engine for economic advancement and the public good, has recently published a paper, “Design for Innovation: Facts, figures, and practical plans for growth,” citing how the U.K. design industry has expanded despite the challenges of difficult financial times in recent years. (It is available online as a PDF).

Guardian, 03/01/2012

Community-led design could restore trust between residents and professionals as research reveals people are not getting what they want from their homes. Building new homes to solve the housing crisis is not just about numbers, it's also about quality. The government's housing strategy recognises this. It talks of good design and sustainability – and this couldn't have come soon enough.

Professional Engineering, 01/01/2012, click here for full article

Turmoil in financial markets has created widespread uncertainty, leaving many companies wary of trading markets to come. PE talks to small firms, a bank and an influential trading assosication and finds some useful advice on ways to thrive during tough times.

Ulster Business, 01/01/2012, click here for full article

Ulster is teaming up with the Design Council in a bid to boost the commercial potential of technologies developed at the university. The office of Innovation will team up with Design Associates under the Design Council's 'Innovate for Univiersites' mentoring programme. Under the programme, strategic design and innovation tools are used to accelerate the commercialisation of universities' research projects.

Research, 01/01/2012, click here for full article

Violence is always a problem in A&E departments, and never more so than at Christmas. Robert Bain meets the ethnographic researchers who went to see for themselves.

Most researchers look forward to a break from work over the festive season, but a year ago a team from social research company ESBO and the Design Council gave up their Christmas and New Year went to immerse themselves in one place we all hope not to end up; A&E.

Dexigner, 23/12/2011

Restarting Britain: Design Education and Growth, an inaugural report from the Design Commission explores the link between the UK's national design capacity, and economic growth in the 21st century. The report describes and analyses the design skillset, assesses UK's current strengths in the field of design education, and compares those to the practices of other nations. It sets out the current threats to the ongoing successful delivery of design education and what the Design Commission believe the UK must do now to continue to compete.

Liverpool Daily Post, 23/12/2011

AS A principal sponsor of the Design Commission’s independent enquiry into design education, the Design Council welcomes their recent report: Restarting Britain – Design Education and Growth. The report highlighted the importance of design in schools, and the recognition that design education is fundamental to national prosperity through maintaining the UK’s world-leading design industry.