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Our publications, all together in one place. Here's where to find our annual reviews, reports and guides to programmes like Design Bugs Out, along with our award-winning magazine. It's also where you'll find our research, from how eleven of the world's best businesses use design, to how designers do business. And don't forget our business and design newsletters.

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Design for Innovation

Design for Innovation

To coincide with the Government’s Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth we've published our own set of facts, figures and practical plans for growth

Reducing violence and aggression in A&E

Reducing violence and aggression in A&E

A summary of the process and results of this programme

Our Plans 2011-2012

Our plans

Presentation about the Design Council and our plans for the future

Teapot and Anglepoise

Broader, further, closer and leaner

As the Design Council and CABE come together, this publication sets out our vision for delivering design, architecture and innovation that add social value and improve everyday life.

Multi-disciplinary design education in the UK

Multi-disciplinary design education in the UK

Report and recommendations from the Multi-Disciplinary Design Network. Find out more and download a PDF

Supermarket-led development: Asset or liability?

Supermarket-led development

Advice on how to work with supermarkets to ensure that schemes are both commercially viable and enhance the place in which they are built.

How we shift funding and skills to green our cities

Grey to green

Discover how to shift funding and skills to green our cities.

Designing better streets for people with low vision

Sight Line

A pioneering study shows how better street design can transform life for people with low vision, helping them to become more confident and more mobile.

Lessons from Asia

Lessons from Asia

Report on the Design Council/HEFCE fact-finding visit to Beijing, China, and in Seoul and Daejeon, South Korea. April 2010. Find out more about it and download a PDF

 

Design review network annual report 2009-10

Helping local people choose good design

The network of design review panels operating across England provides local authorities and others with independent expert design advice.

How can we help people make their homes more energy efficient?

How can we help people make their homes more energy efficient?

The Design Council has recently run a design workship with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to look at how to encourage the adoption of home insulation and other low-carbon home modifications.

An action plan to improve open spaces in social housing areas

Decent homes need decent spaces

How social landlords can provide more opportunities for people to enjoy the space on their doorsteps.

Using local spaces to tackle inequality and improve health

Community green

An investigation into the relationship between urban green space, inequality, ethnicity, health and wellbeing in the largest study of its kind in England.

Multi-disciplinary education case studies

Multi-disciplinary education

We've interviewed eight universities, each of which has taken a slightly different approach to multi-disciplinary design education.

What role for standards?

Improving the design of new housing

A report setting out CABE's emerging position on housing standards.

Housing design in everyone's interest

Simpler and better

Is it too much to believe that all new homes can be good enough everywhere? Why has this proved so difficult in the past and what can we do to change it?

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