Design Blueprint

Guide
23/10/2008

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Inside you will find

  • Background
  • Information about the UK Design Skills Alliance
  • A guide to the design industry, including strategic analysis and future thinking
  • Aspects of design education that can help designers

This will interest

  • Designers
  • Design students

The Design Blueprint is an action plan for designers to help them access a range of professional tools, information and advice to improve their skills and career development and to help prepare design students for the challenges of work.

Resources

The sewing room
The sewing room

Transform Ageing: A stitch in time – inside The Sewing Rooms Transform Ageing has granted The Sewing Rooms £25,000 to replicate its project across three areas in the South West. Transform Ageing has granted The Sewing Rooms £25,000 to replicate its project across three areas in the South West.

Case study — 26/07/2018
Transform Ageing
Transform Ageing

Evaluating Transform Ageing – What we’ve learnt about learning How combining developmental and theory-based evaluation approaches can provide space for learning and accountability in innovative programmes. Combining developmental and theory-based evaluation approaches can provide space for learning and accountability in innovative programmes.

Report — 17/07/2018
Hackney
Hackney

Hackney Council: Connecting services to support the health of tenants in private housing Hackney Council applied for the Design Council’s Design in the Public Sector programme, funded by the Local Government Association, to find ways to deal with the health challenges some of their residents were facing. Hackney Council applied to Design in the Public Sector to find ways to deal with the health challenges some of their residents were facing.

Case study — 11/07/2018
Fjord image
Fjord image

Video: The Design Economy 2018 – Fjord In this video, Group Director Celia Romaniuk discusses the merger, which sought to allow Fjord’s culture to grow and thrive, as well as some of the design approaches Fjord apply in their work with clients. In this video, Group Director Celia Romaniuk discusses the merger which sought to allow Fjord’s culture to grow and thrive.

Case study — 26/06/2018
City ID
City ID

Video: The Design Economy 2018 – City ID In this video, Founder and Design Director Mike Rawlinson explains how their first project for Bristol City Council – which introduced the idea of ‘Legible Cities’ – led to work nationally and internationally. In this video, Founder & Design Director Mike Rawlinson explains how the idea of ‘Legible Cities’ led to work nationally and...

Case study — 26/06/2018