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1994
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Design Council
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The review of
the Design Council was completed; John Sorrell's blueprint for the
new Design Council published
The newly formed
Parliamentary All Party Group on Design announced its first initiative
- a competition inviting students to redesign the Houses of Parliament
The Design Council's
database of Consultancy Register members was transferred to the
Chartered Society of Designers
The Design Council's
core event to celebrate its 50th anniversary - Project 2045 - was
launched
The newly refocused
and restructured Design Council was relaunched in December, on its
50th anniversary, by The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP, President
of the Board of Trade
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Film star O
J Simpson accused of first degree murder
IRA proclaimed
ceasefire
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Earthquake
devastated Los Angeles
Anglican church
ordained women priests
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Eurotunnel
tourist services launched
Time magazine
digitally altered O J Simpson's face to make him seem more menacing
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Normandy bridge
built - the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world
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1995
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Using a special
fund of £200,000 provided by the DTI, the Design Council invited
bids from organisations for special design projects
The Education
& Training team continued its successful rounds of consultation
with educationalists, industrialists and students on the future
of design education in the UK, later published as 'Design Focus
in Schools'
Project 2045
was celebrated during Future Week 6 - 10 March. The nation's ideas
for designs for the year 2045 were exhibited across the country
and over 2,000 time capsules were buried at 12 noon on 10 March
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Nick Leeson
brought Barings to its knees
Greenpeace won
Brent Spar protest against Shell Oil - later apologised for getting
facts wrong
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France carried
out nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll
The Queen hoaxed
by Canadian DJ
Yitzhak Rabin
assassinated
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Skye bridge
opened
Windows '95
launched - at £200 million, the industry's most expensive launch
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Surgeon saved
air passenger's life in operation using coat hanger, scissors, oxygen
mask and plastic bottle, all sterilised in five-star brandy
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1996
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John Sorrell,
Chairman of the Design Council, was re-appointed by Ian Lang, Secretary
of State for Trade and Industry, for a second term
The Getty Grant
Program awarded £121,000 for the archiving and cataloguing of the
new Design Council Archive at the University of Brighton's Design
History Research Centre
The Design Council,
working with Blueberry New Media, launched its website at Cyberia
Café in London
In October,
the Design Council launched Design
in Business Week, an annual forum to explore the strategic importance
of design for corporate success
Working in partnership
with the Social Market Foundation, the Design Council supported
a joint conference in May 1996, attended by representatives from
the main purchasing agencies in central and local government and
across the public sector. A report has been published and follow-up
work is underway
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Wallace and
Gromit went missing for a day in New York after being accidentally
left in the boot of a taxi
Football came
home in Euro 96
Alan Shearer
became the world's most expensive footballer when he was paid £15m
to play for Newcastle United
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BBC television
celebrated its 60th birthday
Channel tunnel
safety in doubt following a fire on a freight train 11 miles from
Calais
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Glasgow hosted
its first International Design Festival as a prelude to the huge
design festival that Glasgow will hold in 1999
James Dyson's
was the unofficial designer of the year with the incredible success
of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner. He also picked up a number of
awards during the year including the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards
and the 'young technology intensive company award' in the European
Design Prize
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Fake fur fashion
did another round coinciding with Glen Close's fur obsession in
'101 Dalmatians'
Harvey Nichols
diversified with the opening of the Oxo Tower Restaurant and a second
store in Leeds designed by Hosker, Moore and Kent
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1997
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Creative Britain
Working closely with the Prime Minister, the Design Council played
a leading role in the debate on Britain's "brand". A series of workshops
on the theme of Creative Britain involved leading figures from the
arts, design and industry. The resulting report on how to exploit
the UK's strengths in design and innovation was submitted to Tony
Blair
Millennium Countdown
Dinners
Bringing together the leaders of some of Britain's largest companies,
universities and public sector organisations as well as opinion
formers and innovators in technology, design and the media, the
second series of dinners was held at the Design Council. The dinners
focused on addressing issues and generating ideas and proposals
for future action
Millennium Products
This initiative to find innovative UK products and services was
launched by Prime Minister Tony Blair in September. In the first
round over a thousand submissions were received
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General Election
1 May
Labour won a landslide victory to form the first Labour Government
for 18 years, making Tony Blair the youngest Prime Minister since
1812
August 31
Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries sustained in a horrific
car crash in Paris. Dodi Al Fayed and their chauffeur were also
killed. The UK plunged into mourning, as a mountain of flowers appeared
at the gates of the Royal Palace
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British film,
The English Patient, starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas,
wins nine Oscars at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood
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Virgin Vie
cosmetics chain opens for trading with a retail format developed
by Revolution and product packaging by Lyons Associates
Channel 5 launched
with branding by Wolff Olins and on screen identity created by Californian
consultancy Silver Hammer. The first new terrestrial channel for
more than a decade needed all TV sets in the UK to be re-tuned
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Another Conran
restaurant opens. Bluebird in the Kings Road, London includes a
café, restaurant, food store, and flower stalls in the old garage
forecourt
25-year old
designer, Stella McCartney became Chloe's top designer in the spring,
replacing Karl Lagerfield
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1998
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New Premises
The Design Council moves into a specially-converted former telephone
exchange in London's Bow Street, Covent Garden, finally leaving
Haymarket, its home for 40 years.
At the first
and second announcements of Millennium Products, a total 433 innovative
UK products and services are revealed by the Prime Minister and
Trade Secretary.
A new Design
Council website is launched, with a sharper focus, more innovative
design - and many more visitors!
The Design Council's
new offices are thrown open to the public as part of 'Open House
98' and attract 800 visitors
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US President
Bill Clinton is engulfed by allegations of sexual peccadilloes with
White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Peace in Northern
Ireland makes dramatic progress as the Good Friday Agreement is
signed and plans for a new assembly are agreed. Then a bomb is planted
in Omagh, killing 28.
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England does
well in the World Cup, only to lose on penalties against Argentina
in the quarter finals. But Tim Henman is the first British tennis
player to get through to the Wimbledon Semi Finals in 25 years.
Trade Secretary
Peter Mandelson is forced to resign after borrowing money from a
Cabinet colleague to buy a house.
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The striking
powerhouse::uk exhibition housed in silver pods on Horseguards Parade
in London promotes Britain's creative industries and is visited
by Asian heads of state.
A new drug with
an astonishing success rate, mainly among men, makes its first appearance.
It's called Viagra.
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New designs are
unveiled for the Greenwich Millennium Dome, including a giant half-man,
half-woman figure and a 'baby Dome.' The main structure itself is
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1999
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The Design Council
completed an ambitious project with the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority, transforming the National Curriculum into a document
which inspires as well as informs.
Prime Minister
Tony Blair unveiled the final list of 1,012 Millennium Products
at Skyscape, within the Millennium Dome site.
Also at the
Millennium Dome site, a dramatic piece of land art named the ‘Spiral
of Innovation’ was created by the Design Council, which featured
Millennium Products in a variety of stunning visual and audio displays.
The Sharing
Innovation website was launched, developing and exploring some
of the inspiring stories of innovation behind Millennium Product
companies.
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The American
gathering of the World Trade Organisation attracted protesters wanting
social concerns to be considered in trade agreements. Their frustration
was taken out on Seattle’s NikeTown as they demonstrate that
the environment, labour rights and Third World poverty should be
among priorities.
Spice mania
continued with the wedding of Victoria Adams to David Beckham attracting
more attention than Prince Edward marrying Sophie Rhys Jones.
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The whole world
held it’s breath as they prepared for the millennium bug to cause
havoc......but thankfully it was business as usual for the majority
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Apple Macintosh
went from strength to strength thanks to the success of the iMac.
The product also received a number of design awards along the way,
including the only Gold Award at the1999 British Design and Art
Direction Awards.
The conversion
of the historic Reichstag by Foster and Partners attracted attention
from around the World. At home the new German Parliament building
was given Millennium Products status by the Design Council, and
also a RIBA Award.
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After much speculation
about the Millennium Dome being completed on time, it was spectacularly
opened to British VIPs and the World on 31 December with an impressive
New Millennium celebration. The London Eye was also completed but
unfortunately failed to open on the day, yet still looks magnificent
towering over the London skyline.
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