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.
In-depth research conducted in 2005 on the UK's design industry providing detailed data on everything from scale and economic clout to education and skills.
The share prices of companies which invest in design performed up to three times better than the FTSE 100 Index over nearly two years in the run-up to December 2004.
Design Council Review 2004-05. A look at why design matters to the UK and the Design Council initiatives raising its profile in business and the public sector. Download a PDF
This literature review looks in detail at academic research on learning environments and how they affect the people who use them. Prepared by the University of Newcastle and sponsored by CfBT Research and Development.
Learning in the UK's schools is evolving fast, but the environments where that learning happens are essentially the same as they were 100 years ago. Change is long overdue, and this prospectus points the way to making it happen.
The more businesses use design, the more successful they're likely to be. That's the clear message from Design in Britain 2004-2005, based on one of the UK's biggest business surveys. Find out more about it and download a PDF
Healthcare needs a shake-up to handle the rising tide of chronic disease. RED Paper 01 Health: Co-creating Services sets out a new vision for healthcare in which users take a key role in shaping the services they receive.
Can design improve our encounters with the state? Our Touching the State project asked the question, and the answers feature in a magazine full of insights and opinions. Published in partnership with the IPPR.
Distilling the lessons from two initiatives developed to broaden design students' understanding of business issues. These initiatives were developed in partnership with the ICA.
Britain's fastest growing companies are using design to drive their businesses forward. Design in Britain 2003-2004 presents the evidence. Find out more about it and download a PDF
A report on how the NHS needs to think in broad design and system terms – much more so than it does at present. Find out more and download a PDF.
Designers have just as big a role in tackling crime as police, crime prevention agencies and town planners. According to Think Thief, designing against crime is the most effective way to beat criminals. Published with support from the Home Office.
Design in Britain 2002-2003 features facts, figures and quotes underlining the financial and cultural benefits design can bring to business, education and the public sector. Find out more about it and download a PDF
Kit for Purpose is a Design Council investigation into how cost-effective design can make the difference between environments pupils and teachers have to fit themselves into and ones developed to meet their needs.
A review of the past year and a look at how the Design Council aims to prove how design adds value by demonstrating it in action.
How do you beat crime? More policemen and longer prison sentences say some. But good design can actually prevent crime and this collection of case studies proves the word is spreading.
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