For schools

This 'How to' guide for design and technology teachers takes you through 10 easy steps to running a design workshop.

Designer Adrian Westaway celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Prince Philip Designers Prize by taking a closer look at five decades of award winning British design.

Does the quality of your design and technology teaching deserve better recognition? Perhaps you deserve the new Design Mark?

Amaze your friends with facts and figures about design around the world. Our journey begins in Europe. So far we've explored Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and — of course — the UK.

The Water Design Challenge is a new initiative for Key Stage 3 students and teachers in the South East who are interested in using design to change the way people use water and in making water saving easy and enjoyable.

Year 8 pupils from across Cornwall were given the opportunity to make parts of their school more sustainable by working with designers on the Eco Design Challenge. They calculated the size of their school's ecological footprint, then designed ways to make it smaller.

In Channel 4's TV series, Better by Design, consultants Richard Seymour and Dick Powell were given the challenge of taking six everyday products - kitchen bin, razor, burglar alarm, shopping trolley, life-jacket and airline seat - and coming up with not just different, but fundamentally better, versions.

Big Zipper is a teaching tool aimed at pupils studying Design and Technology at Key Stages 3 and 4 and Business Studies at GCSE.

This is a set of five cases studies telling the story of the development of some outstandingly innovative products.

Millennium Products were innovative, forward-thinking, problem-solving challengers of convention. Behind each product there was an inspiring story to be told.

Designers into Schools Week gave secondary school pupils in England the chance to work with professional designers who visited their schools.