2011 Design Summit

Design for Growth

The 2011 Design Summit on June 23 brought together business leaders, senior government ministers, world-leading designers and architects to explore how Britain’s design industry can play a more central role in driving economic growth.

Hosted by Lord Michael Bichard and David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities & Science, and featuring leading international names in design and business, the Summit included presentations from Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice-President of Industrial Design for Apple, Ian Callum and Gerry McGovern, Design Directors at Jaguar and Land Rover, and Kevin McCloud, author, broadcaster and designer.

David Kester, Jonathan Ive, David Willetts, Michael Bichard

Coverage

Watch films of the talks from the 2011 Design Summit and find out what was talked about in the room and online

About the Summit

Biographies of the speakers at the 2011 Design Summit

The Big Rethink scribing

Redesigning Business Summit 2010

Our international Redesigning Business Summit, staged in 2010 in London with The Economist, brought leaders and thinkers from business and design together to discuss how design could help make business less complicated. Watch videos and listen to recaps of everything that was said.

Our sponsors and supporters

In partnership with BIS, supported by Jaguar Land Rover, The Gatsby Foundation and Wired UK. With thanks to Williams Murray Hamm.

 

 

 

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