Design Council films and podcasts

Our 2011 Design Summit featured leading businesses, public sector organisations and policy leaders discussing how design has helped them achieve growth.

Watch the films in our album on Vimeo

Find out more about the 2011 Design Summit.

The first Design Council Forum of nearly 100 leaders in design, business, government and education debated whether UK government should have a national design strategy.

Watch the 2011 Design Forum films on Vimeo

Film series of talks by inspiring designers.

• Sam Hecht, co-founder of Industrial Facility, and Dan Thompson, founder of the Empty Shops Network, talk about designing simplicity
• Listen to Dan Germain from Innocent Drinks and Luke Nicholson, founder of sustainable innovation practice More Associates, talk about designing fun and games
• Matt Jones from BERG and Clive Grinyer from Cisco talk about how design can help people stay in control and in the know

Filmed case studies of clients who've worked with our Innovate for Universities support programme

Watch filmed interviews with clients from Designing Demand to find out how the programme works

Advice on starting a design business and how to manage relationships with clients

Film highlights from Intersections 2011, a two-day conference at the Eden Project on 2-3 March 2011, which explored the emerging trends driving business change and revealing new opportunities for design practice.

Watch three films about graphic design and what a graphic designer does, featuring Neville Brody, Quentin Newark, Graphic Thought Facility, Applied Information Group and more graphic designers.

Eight designers give us their definition of good design

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Intersections 07 brought together 34 leading thinkers in design to consider how design is evolving and how this is affecting its relationships with other fields.

The conference, held in NewcastleGateshead in October 2007, asked how design is transforming as it adapts to a world in transition. Two days of stimulating and energetic debate considered how designers are adapting to the new landscape by acquiring new
know-how.