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Find out what the national and international press have to say about the Design Council's work, in our round up of recent press coverage
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Jessie Scanlon, BusinessWeek
04 June 2009
Brainstorming sessions have led to important innovations at Kaiser Permamente. Here's how the managed-care company did it
The Economist
Marty Cooper, the pioneer of mobile telephony, has spent his entire career pushing wireless communications to new heights
Roberta Smith, New York Times
The Museum of Modern Art is revisiting its role as design arbiter with this selection of more than 100 objects from its collection
Kate Rockwood, Fast Company
01 June 2009
Maya Design's team collaborates to help engineers understand design. How a little lab called MAYA is giving firms such as Emerson and General Dynamics an innovation boost
Mark Dziersk, Fast Company
Despite the best efforts of the design community, design is still struggling to influence companies in meaningful ways. The fault lies mostly within the design profession itself, which is unable to supply leadership equal to the current demand
Alice Rawsthorn, New York Times
25 May 2009
Social design, service design, service innovation - call it what you will, this innovative approach to tackling social problems is rapidly gaining traction
30 May 2009
The way digital products look often bears no relation to what they do. Take the iPod Shuffle. How could you be expected to guess what that tiny metal box does by looking at it? There are no clues to suggest that it might play music
Management Today
28 May 2009
4D Creations' Richard Habergham on how to get the best out of a specialist product designer
Marty Hauff, New Electronics
05 May 2009
A rush to lock in design detail early has the side-effect of locking out innovation at a time when you know the least about the product you're developing
Basheera Khan, Telegraph Blogs
06 May 2009
Global brands such as BMW, Levi's Original Music and Red Bull have joined a few high profile South African brands in testing the IdeaBounty approach to open up their branding or promotional strategy to independent designers and creatives
Robert Fabricant, Fast Company Blog
Lessons on product led brand innovation from Amazon's Kindle which shows that innovation cannot be delivered through conventional marketing media alone
Bruce Nussbaum, Business Week
30 April 2009
The failure of existing modes of delivering services to consumers, students, patients, travelers, etc., is making Design a hugely important system of reframing old problems and creating new answers.
Broadband Expert
To ensure that the whole UK is included in the digital future three new research hubs have been unveiled by the Research Councils UK that will be based in Aberdeen, Nottingham and Newcastle that will develop technologies of the future.
John Carvel, The Guardian
27 April 2009
An innovation fund which is expected to be worth £20m will provide cash prizes of up to £1m each for people coming forward with inventions to tackle the NHS's "key health challenges"
Belfast Telegraph
01 April 2009
200 local companies have been discovering how design can deliver real benefits to their business, even during the current economic downturn.
Marjorie Kelly, Strategy + Business
26 March 2009
Emerging alternatives to the shareholder-centric model — at Grameen Danone Foods, the John Lewis Partnership, Novo Nordisk, and elsewhere — could help companies avoid ethical mishaps and contribute more to the world at large.
Marino Donati at Drapers online
20 March 2009
Marks and Spencer executive chairman Stuart Rose warns retailers not to panic and abandon their core brand values in the recession, and to keep innovating.
Michael Cannell, New York Times
03 January 2009
Design tends to thrive in hard times. Will today’s designers rise to the occasion?