Mentoring tomorrow’s design leaders

Guide
03/07/2009

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Inside you will find

  • Introduction 
  • Tips on how to find a mentor
  • Top mentoring tips
  • Resources

This will interest

  • Future design mentors/leaders
  • Designers

​Mentoring relationships either click or they don’t, but the ones that do can last a lifetime.

Les Wynn, Design Manager Xerox Europe and Nextnet Mentor

From October 2007 to April 2008 the Design Council ran a pilot leadership development scheme for designers called NextNet. 

As part of it, we tested a mentoring programme which paired 13 mid-level designers with different senior designers.

This booklet shares what we learned about mentoring for designers. 

Resources

Transform Ageing: Arts participation, creativity can Make It Better Arts participation is seen as a vital part of healthy ageing, especially in the South West and Cornwall, where a third of people will be aged over 65-years-old by 2036. Arts participation is seen as a vital part of healthy ageing, especially in the South West and Cornwall.

Case study — 12/10/2018
Monzo card
Monzo card

The Design Economy 2018 – Monzo How the creators of the banking sector's most iconic new bank card use design to build trust and differentiate themselves to customers and investors. Design-led innovation in the banking sector.

Case study — 10/10/2018
Studio Moross
Studio Moross

The Design Economy 2018 – Studio Moross Studio Moross is an interdisciplinary design and creative studio, specialising in work for the music industry, entertainment sector, consumer packaged goods, and food and beverages. Here, they discuss how their culture of collaboration and openness is tackling a lack of diversity in design. Tackling a lack of diversity in design.

Case study — 17/09/2018