London

10th DBA Design Effectiveness Awards with Management Today
Hosted by Jack Dee, the design awards celebration of the year offers the chance to see the best of today's effective design and includes a cocktail reception followed by a celebratory dinner, razor sharp stand-up and the opportunity to dance away until the early hours.
Date: 23 October
Time: Cocktail reception at 6.15pm, carriages at 2.00am
Venue: London Hilton, 22 Park Lane, London W1Y 4BE
Contact: Hannah Paterson, DBA, 020 7813 3123 hannah@dba.org.uk
www.dba.org.uk
Fee: Table of ten for DBA members £1200 plus VAT; Table of ten for non-members £1400 plus VAT; Individual DBA members £130 plus VAT; Individual non-members £160 plus VAT

Presentation of the Prince Philip Designers Prize
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh will personally announce the winner of the Prince Philip Designers Prize 2000, which recognises outstanding lifetime achievement in design for business and society.
Date: 24 October
Time: 6.30 until 8.30pm
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Penny Power, Design Council 020 7420 5202 pennyp@designcouncil.org.uk
By invitation only

Innovation Stories Exhibition
A selection of these stories demonstrating the relationship between architecture, design and industry and the contribution designers can make to environmental impact and brand image.
Date: 27 October until 18 November
Times: Mondays to Fridays 9.30 until 6.00; Saturdays 10.00 until 4.00
Venue: The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Contact: Debra King 020 7692 6209 events@buildingcentretust.org
www.buildingcentretrust.org

NO!SE
Is your brand making a noise? NO!SE will be bringing together brand and marketing professionals to explore the role of audio in the world of branding. Sound business advice.
Date: 31 October
Time: 9am until lunchtime
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Jeremy Walker, Design Council, 020 7420 5200 noise@designcouncil.org.uk
www.makinganoise.com

Design for Productive New Ways of Working
Presentations by Chris Weber of BT Property, and representatives of organisations which helped BT to design and operate their offices to maximise the positive business impact of new ways of working.
Date: 31 October
Time: 4.30 until 8.00
Venue: BT Holborn Centre, 120 Holborn, London EC1N 2TE
Contact: Carol Smith or Peter Russell, Abacus Communications
01892 531 830 abacuscom@lineone.net
www.officeproductivity.co.uk
Fee: £116.33

www.e-brand.com…. or con?
Safeguarding your brand on the web - ACID (Anti-Copying In Design) invite you to join key speakers who will demonstrate ways in which your intellectual property can be protected.
Date: 31 October
Time: 4.15 until 6.30 with drinks served until 9.00
Venue: Conference Theatre, ACID c/o Theodore Goddard, 150 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4EJ
Contact: Shabera Ahmed, Theodore Goddard 020 7880 5893 shaberaahmed@theodoregoddard.co.uk
www.acid.uk.com
Fee: ACID students and new designers free; ACID members £17.63; Non-ACID members £23.50

Brand Aid – What are Architect’s Fees For?
Chaired by Paul Finch, this forum will debate the role of architecture in business and ask, is the architect's role to create a recognisable image, or brand, for the client?
Date: 31 October
Time: 4.00 until 7.00
Venue: The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7DL
Contact: Debra King 020 7692 6209 events@buildingcentretrust.org
www.buildingcentretrust.org

Communications Solutions Europe 2000
Largest event this year to focus on the business application of next generation electronic commerce. The One Stop Contact Centre Alliance will be exhibiting on the eCRM Live! stand
Date: 31 October until 2 November
Time: 10.00 until 6.00 Tuesday and Wednesday; 10.00 until 4.30 Thursday
Venue: Grand Hall, Olympia, London
Contact: (Stand) Jonathan Platt, One Stop Contact Centre 0117 914 1122 callcentre@gb.unisys.com; (Event) Kim Wilkins, Advenstar Communications 01291 626 200 or register at
www.comms-solutionseurope.com/registration/registration/html

The six-week new e-conomy brand plan
The event, aimed at fast-moving businesses, include illustrated presentations and creative tasks, taking participants through the process of building a strong brand – from the development of a robust strategy through to creative implementation on and off line.
Date: 1 November
Time: 9.30 until 4.30
Venue: Citigate Lloyd Northover, 8 Smart’s Place, London WC2B 5LW
Contact: Rachel Vickerstaff 020 7430 1100 rachel.vickerstaff@citigateln.com
www.citigateln.com
Fee: £100 plus VAT

Live online chat
Log on to www.designcouncil.org.uk to take part in a live online chat with two of the speakers from the Design in Business Week 2000 opening event. Continue the debate on the Future of Brands with Will Murray, ex big business and author of new book Brand Storm, and Ralph Ardill, Marketing and Strategic Planning Director of Imagination.
Date: 1 November
Time: 1.00 to 2.00

'Essential Customer Intimacy' - Insight into
Emapthic Design
Part 1 will include guest speakers and an interactive debate demonstrating the benefits of Empathic Design. Part 2 will consist of a participatory design exercise using some of the tools introduced.
Date: 1 November
Times: Morning session: 10.00 until 1.15; afternoon session:
2.00 until 4.15
Venue: Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
Contact: Richard Barrett or Andrew Burns, Cranfield University
01234 754 194 r.l.barrett@cranfield.ac.uk or a.d.burns@cranfield.ac.uk
Fee: £25 - £40

Joining Forces: Corporate venturing as a key to success
This event, part of the CBI's corporate venturing series, will bring together Psion plc and Therefore Product Design Consultants to reveal the secrets of their long-standing relationship, and identify lessons for other businesses.
Date: 1 November
Time: 6.00 until 9.00pm
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Kirstine Murphy, Design Council 020 7420 5200 kirstinem@designcouncil.org.uk

Arts & Business: redefining the brand using the arts
Demonstrating how the arts can communicate an uncompromising design philosophy to customers. The unveiling of a Ford Focus car reinterpreted by sonic artists Greyworld, in association with Hayward Gallery and Arts & Business New Partners.
Date: 2 November
Time: 8.30 - 10am
Venue: Capital Ford, 319 Edgware Road, London NW9 6TH
Contact: Emma Peck, Arts & Business 020 7378 8143 emma.peck@AandB.org.uk
www.AandB.org.uk www.hayward-gallery.org.uk www.ford.co.uk www.greyworld.org
By invitation only

The Finance and Innovation Interface at 3M
Pauline Gleadle (Cranfield School of Management) and Naomi Gornick (Brunel University) present their findings on how 3M enables innovation and creativity to flourish alongside good financial project outcomes.
Date: 2 November
Time: 3.00 until 5.00
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Pauline Gleadle, Cranfield University 01494 762 062 pauline@sgleadle.freeserve.co.uk

Practical Product Design for the Environment: Training Business Support Groups to help SME's
This workshop is an excellent way for business support groups to gain a practical introduction to the principles and benefits of cleaner design. It will help you to understand what cleaner design is and how it can be implemented by companies in your area to comply with existing and forthcoming legislation and to increase their bottom line.
Date: 2 November
Time: 10.00 until 4.00
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Dr Stuart Ballinger, ETBPP 01235 436 599 stuart.ballinger@aeat.co.uk www.etbpp.gov.uk

Design Sense Debate
In a recent survey 80 per cent of us claimed to have an environmental conscience, but only 3 per cent of us consider an appliance's environmental impact when shopping. And what about business ­ how far up the corporate agenda is sustainable thinking? Alex Cutler of SustainAbility, the strategic management consultancy and think-tank for sustainable development in business, Chris Hewett Senior Research Fellow at The Institute for Public Policy Research, Robin Murray Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics and author of Creating Wealth from Waste and Charlie Paton whose Seawater Greenhouse won the first Design Sense award, discuss the challenge of building sustainability into products, services and business strategies with Design Museum Director, Paul Thompson.
Design Sense is the Design Museum's annual £40,000 award for sustainability in product design and architecture, sponsored by Corus and supported by the Rufford Foundation. The award winner will be announced on 16 November 2000 and an exhibition of the 12 shortlisted entries opens at the Design Museum from 17 November 2000 to 21 January 2001. You can submit your question for the panel by e-mail to: dwall@designmuseum.org.uk
Date: 2 November
Time: 7.15 - 8.15pm (the galleries will be open for viewing at 6.45 and close at 9.00)
Venue: Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
Contact: Deborah Wall, Design Museum 020 7940 8763 dwall@designmuseum.org.uk www.designmuseum.org
Fee: £10 (Ticket price includes admission to the Museum and a complimentary dink)

Management Accounting and New Product Development
A review of interim findings from CIMA-commissioned research into management accounting for new product development, and an exploration of how communication between two disciplines can be enhanced.
Date: 3 November.
Time: 10.00 until 4.00
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Ewa Spohn, Design Council 020 7420 5200 ewas@designcouncil.org.uk or Danka Starovic, CIMA 020 7637 2311 dstarovic@cima.org.uk

Closing Event
Closing event hosted by the British Design Initiative in partnership with the Design Council and sponsored by IBM. This event concludes Design in Business Week 2000 with the launch of the Design Handbook 2001 - the Bible of Britain's Design Industry, the IBM epartners initiative and the results of the British Design Industry Valuation survey.
Date: 3 November
Time: 6.30 to 9.00
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Mark Graham, British Design Initiative 020 7384 3435 mark@britishdesign.co.uk

Bringing Products for Easier Living out of the
Disability Closet
One of a series of 'think tank' meetings with key stakeholders to generate ideas about how specialist products might become more widely available to older people.
Date: 7 November
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Contact: Disabled Living Centres Council, 0161 834 1044 dlcc@dlcc.demon.co.uk
By invitation only

D&AD Annual Show
An exhibition of the 2000 D&AD Gold, Silver and Silver Nominated Award winning work. On display will be the most creative ideas and executions in design and advertising today.
Date: 7 until 12 November (please note the exhibition is not open on
11 November)
Times: 10.00 until 6.00
Venue: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Contact: Kathryn Patten, D&AD 020 7840 1111 kathryn@dandad.co.uk
www.dandad.org

Too Many Voices?
Are there too many charities competing in today's crowded marketplace? This debate will examine the issues of charity branding, duplication and accountability. With John Stoker (Chief Charity Commissioner); Polly Toynbee; James Maxwell (CEO Ketchum Europe); Ed Mayo (New Economics Foundation); and Chris Hanvey (Ellerman Foundation). Chaired by Alastair Stewart.
Date: 8 November
Time: 10.30 until 2.00pm
Venue: Curzon Soho Cinema, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1
Contact: Maureen Bosch, The Media Trust 020 7874 7620, events@mediatrust.org www.mediatrust.org
Fee: £69.33