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Reiss Retail Interior

Retail design by Jeff Kindleysides

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With consumers expecting and demanding more, retail environments have to work ever harder. Award-winning retail designer Jeff Kindleysides gives an insight into the latest trends and challenges. The environments in which goods and services are sold, he explains, can have as much effect on the consumer as the quality of the goods themselves

This Water packaging by Pearlfisher for Innocent

Packaging design by Jonathan Sands

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Are many products meaningless without their packaging? Jonathan Sands explains packaging design's role in protecting contents, selling products, and helping people to use them He discusses the rise of green packaging, how consumer driven demand is helping to improve packaging recyclability as well as reducing greenhouse emissions.

Rt. Hon Alistair Darling MP, Former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

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In his keynote address Alistair Darling argues that if Britain is to compete in a rapidly changing global economy we need to differentiate ourselves through quality and creativity

Standards and regulations

Design Council | Home > About design > Business essentials > Intellectual property by Iain Stansfield > Standards and regulations

Keeping abreast of changes and standards is crucial in ensuring you’ve properly protected your IP Patents Patents Act of 1977, as last amended by the Patents Act of 2004 This is the principal domestic patent legislation, establishing a new law for patents and giving effect to certain international conventions. Patents Rules 1995 (SI 1995/2093) These Rules are secondary legislation which set...

Packaging design glossary

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A guide to some of the terms used in packaging design Bespoke packaging - a unique solution, e. g. a specific box or bottle shape. Blocking - how individual packs work together to create the illusion of something much bigger. Bogof - trade acronym for a 'buy one get one free' promotion. DPP (direct product profitability) - a term used to describe the contribution to profit of an individual...

Inclusive design by Roger Coleman

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By 2020 half the adult population will be aged over 50. Disabled and older people aren’t special cases but will increasingly be part of the mainstream. So why do we continue manufacture products and services aimed at young, able-bodied consumers? Roger Coleman explains how inclusive design ensures that goods, services and environments are accessible to more people. It’s an approach that can lead...

Palm V designed by IDEO

Innovation by Bettina von Stamm

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Are you continuously challenging the status quo within your business? Bettina von Stamm reveals how successful companies commercially exploit ideas Innovation is what most companies rely on to fuel business growth. After all, in a competitive economic climate, can you really afford to rely on business as usual?

Sustainability glossary

Design Council | Home > About design > Business essentials > Sustainability by Beatrice K Otto > Sustainability glossary

Back-casting – a method promoted by The Natural Step.  The idea is to encourage organisations to think about sustainability by projecting 10, 20 or 50 years ahead to where they would like to be.  Back-casting is the process that enables you to start from where you want to get to, and figure out the steps you’d need to take to work backwards to where you are now.  So, you might set a target of...

Financial Memorandum

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The Financial Memorandum complements the management statement and sets out the detailed financial framework within which the NDPB operates.  The financial memorandum covers, among other things, the NDPB’s funding arrangements; the financial delegations within which the NDPB can spend; budgeting procedures; banking; and expenditure on staff.

Seven examples

Design Council | Home > About design > Business essentials > International markets by Mark Delaney > Seven examples

The following examples show that good design equals good business in international markets Example: Brand revivalCompany: Apple Computer IncYear: 1997 to present  In 1997, after reporting losses of $1billion, it was widely assumed that Apple Computer was about to go out of business. The company had lost its way. Its core market of creatives and students had become alienated and were switching...