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The Design Council has announced a new package of support for projects that support the use of design for economic growth. The aim is to create or strengthen programmes run by intermediary organisation such as professional bodies and networks that improve understanding between design, business and technology and leave behind lasting legacies. Each successful partner organisation will receive up to £20,000 in funding to plan, promote and run their proposed activity and also to build on its success thereafter.

Design Council CABE has announced two new grant programmes to be awarded to locally-based organisations in England to work with their communities and raise their aspiration for the design quality of their area. The grants will support communities develop their own vision for how their built environment should evolve and engage in local design review to uphold the design quality of forthcoming development projects.

The Government is to put design at the heart of its plans for economic growth in the UK. The commitment will be made by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts at 'Design for Growth', a high-level summit meeting of global business leaders, leading designers and Government, which is being co-hosted today by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Design Council.

Leading design agency, PearsonLloyd, has been selected to rethink hospital Accident and Emergency departments in a bid to develop innovative new ways to reduce violence and aggression towards NHS staff, which is estimated to cost at least £69 million  a year in staff absence, loss of productivity and additional security.

The Design Council has warmly congratulated the designers of the London 2012 Olympic Torch - Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby – for their bold and inspiring design, unveiled today by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).

The Design Council has announced the appointment of its new Board of Trustees including influential thinkers and globally respected names from the worlds of design, business, the built environment, arts and education.

Design Council CABE will be speaking at the 2011 Royal Town Planning Institute Planning Convention.
We are running a workshop to explore the effects of the changing planning system on the creation of sustainable, well-designed buildings and places. Using an expert panel we will discuss the role of good design at all stages of planning. From enabling people and communities to reconnect with their area though neighbourhood plans, to the integral role of design in stimulating economic growth and creating sustainable places.

The Design Council CABE has announced vital financial support for the design review affiliated network across England. The support comes in the form of grants to the eight affiliated design review panels across England for 2011-12 to enable them to run local design review, alongside and closely aligned to CABE’s national design review service. The grants are crucial for the continuation of the panels, following the withdrawal of almost all government funding for the service in March 2011.

Today (1 April 2011) the Design Council launches a national consultation on the future of National Design Review, Local Design Review, and related design support. The announcement comes on the first day that the Design Council officially merges with CABE and adopts its independent charitable status.

The design challenge asked teams from Cyclehoop; Rodd; Submarine Design and The Front Yard Company to develop design solutions to the problem of bike theft from in or around people’s homes. The four design teams had four weeks and £10, 000 each to develop their exciting solutions, which were presented at the Design Council.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announced the designers of the London 2012 Olympic Torch.

BarberOsgerby, a London-based design studio, has been appointed to design the Torch that will enable 8,000 Torchbearers to carry the Olympic Flame around the UK during the 70-day Relay next year.

Designers are to rethink the design of hospital Accident and Emergency departments in a bid to develop innovative new ways to reduce violence and aggression towards NHS staff, which is estimated to cost at least £69 million  a year in staff absence, loss of productivity and additional security.

The Design Council and CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) have confirmed that they are to merge, following an agreement reached by the two bodies and government.

To combat this the Design Council will be issuing a series of briefs asking designers to help tackle this problem.

The Design Council’s work with young people in schools has been recognised at two prestigious public relations awards ceremonies this week