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Ideas
and Insights from Design in Business Week 2000
Where
are brands, the economy and design heading? How do you turn
a great idea into a great product? Answers to those questions
and many others flowed thick and fast during the packed
seven days of Design in Business Week 2000.
A
new publication captures the spirit and ideas from the opening
event and the five Transforming Businesses events we staged
with regional business support organisations.
For
a free copy of Ideas and Insights from Design in Business
Week 2000, call 020 7420 5200.
i
Taking
design and innovation seriously pays off. There’s plenty
of evidence of that in the third edition of our magazine
i. It features in an in-depth look at how Millennium Products
companies have proved themselves as Stock Market winners,
comfortably outperforming the rest of the FTSE All-Share
Index. We also tell the story behind the award-winning Notley
Green Primary School, reveal fresh plans to show off British
design flair overseas and set out the issues behind Design
in Business Week 2000, as well as telling you what you need
to know to bid for part of our Design Council Innovation
Fund.
For
a copy, call 020 7420 5200 or e-mail publications@designcouncil.org.uk
Exploring Design and Innovation
Sustainability, usability, e-everything, globalisation, creativity, demographics
and consumer values - these and a host of other emerging
issues are influencing how the design process is developing.
Exploring Design and Innovation is discussing these
issues both online and in print. Developed by Brunel University's
design department and the Design Council, it's a resource
for lecturers and students of industrial, product and engineering
design, plus design management and business studies. Log
on here
or request the printed publication by e-mailing education@designcouncil.org.uk.
Better by design
This new, six-part Channel 4 series commissioned by the Design Council sees the return to our screens of product designers Richard Seymour and Dick Powell, last seen trying to re-design the bra, the car and the toilet back in 1998 in the highly successful Designs on your... series which was repeated last year.
In this new longer series, Richard and Dick will once again be trying to come up with design-led solutions to the age-old problems presented by everyday objects - in this case the economy airline seat, razor, burglar alarm, shopping trolley, kitchen bin and lifejacket.
Each half-hour programme presents a fascinating insight into the way designers think and work, how they relate to manufacturers and marketers and how design can be used effectively to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems to improve our quality of life.
To accompany the series, the Design Council has developed an extensive web-based information and education resource, aimed at all levels from primary school to business school and encompassing universities and FE colleges in between. It will offer downloadable project work, simple ideas for the classroom and information on how to buy a video of all six programmes for just £5.99.
This
resource will go live in six new sections as each of the
programmes is broadcast, starting on Tuesday 18 July. The
link will be featured on the Design Council home page and,
by the end of the series, will feature case studies on all
six stories. Channel 4 will be offering a similar resource
on their own website, linked with the Design Council site,
and featuring an 'A to Z' of design.
i
The second edition of i, our new thrice-yearly magazine on Design Council activities, has just been published. Inside are news items and features on major goings-on, including an extensive interview with Christopher Frayling, our new chairman. There's also a peek behind the scenes of the new Channel Four series Better By Design, commissioned by the Design Council, a report on how our international Millennium Products exhibition is blowing away stereotypes about the UK abroad and an introduction to our work with the Home Office aimed at moving crime busting up the design agenda.
For a copy of i, call 020 7420 5200 or e-mail publications@designcouncil.org.uk
Living Innovation
Innovation breeds success. What makes a business innovative? How do innovative businesses turn ideas into products, manage risk and understand their markets - and what can you learn from them?
Getting answers to these questions and more is the aim behind
Living Innovation, an initiative by the Design Council and
the DTI to discover what makes innovative businesses tick
and to share the lessons learned from their success.
Living Innovation is part of Sharing Innovation, the legacy of Millennium Products, the Design Council campaign which identified 1,012 products and services showing off Britain at its creative best. Building on hundreds of the stories behind Millennium Products, which now comprise an online learning resource, Living Innovation provides in-depth case studies of 50 Millennium Product companies. Results will be published soon. To guarantee a copy e-mail us on info@livinginnovation.org. See what we’ve found out so far at www.livinginnovation.org.
CreativeNet
What
should we be learning in a decade's time?
We need new skills to confront the deluge of data in our
new information-led, knowledge-based society. These skills
will be our survival kit in the new millennium.
Building on the research published by Demos in 'The Creative
Age' last year, the Design Council and Demos are now working
together on a far-reaching new project. CreativeNet,
launched during Design in Education Week 2000, brings together
those involved in innovative educational activities, and
examines new approaches to learning that develop the creative
skills needed in the knowledge-based economy. It also makes
maximum use of the opportunities for information gathering
and sharing provided by electronic communication.
The Thinking Comes Free
The world is changing fast, if we are to capitalise on these changes we are going to have to become faster, more flexible, more creative and more open minded. How do we achieve this? By learning what for many of us is a new skill - creativity.
This
publication is aimed at decision-makers, employers and educators,
helping them to recognise the urgent need for a creative
workforce. Looking at what creativity is, why there is a
growing need for creativity and how we can teach creativity,
The Thinking Comes Free can be ordered by contacting emmaj@designcouncil.org.uk.
Your Creative Future
The creative industries offer some of the most interesting and rewarding careers around. Opportunities in these areas are set to increase over the coming years as the UK's creative industries go from strength to strength. Growing twice as fast as the economy as a whole, they are generating wealth and creating new jobs for the future.
Now
you can find out what it's like to work in this fast-moving
sector and pick up tips on how to get into it yourself with
a new online guide as well as a handy printed booklet. They're
both called Your Creative Future. For the online
version, click here.
For the printed version please email education@designcouncil.org.uk.
Education Futures
The UK is currently awash with educational rhetoric. Aiming to get 'beyond the rhetoric', the Design Council and the RSA have produced their first-ever joint publication. Education Futures broadens the education debate, provides new and challenging viewpoints on improving all aspects of the UK's education provision - from the nursery to lifelong learning - and bases this thinking in examples of current best practice taken from around the world.
A 64 page publication, Education Futures contains an Editorial Overview from Lord Puttnam and contributions from Tom Bentley of think tank Demos, Professor Stephen Heppell of Ultralab, and Rt Rev Dr Sentamu, Bishop for Stepney, amongst others.
The first edition of this annual publication was available at selected Design in Education Week 2000 events and to RSA Fellows. On a limited basis, we also have copies available to the first 300 people to e-mail the team at the address below :
publications@designcouncil.org.uk
Experiencing Innovation
There's a lot of talk about innovation. But what does it really mean? Who does it and how? And just how good can it be for business? The Design Council, together with the CBI, DTI and ESRC sought to answer these and other questions about innovation during a one day conference.
The event, held on 9 May at the CBI Conference Centre, brought together examples from key players within some of the most innovative companies in Britain. Amongst those trying to get under the skin of innovation were:
- Cable and Wireless
- St Lukes
- Unilever
i
i
is the new three times a year publication from the Design
Council. Aiming to inform and inspire influential people
in business, government and education, i provides a snapshot
of the full spectrum of Design Council activities. This
first issue contains high profile projects such as the Spiral
of Innovation at the Millennium Dome, to a round up of Design
in Business Week '99 and the re-design of the National Curriculum
for England and Wales. For those wishing to find out more
about a project contact details are provided at the end
of each section.
i stands for information, inspiration and involvement. To request a copy please call 020 7420 5200 or e-mail publications@designcouncil.org.uk
Design in the New Economy
A report based on the findings from business workshops held during Design in Business Week '99, offering the necessary warning that no business can afford to stand still in today's fast-changing commercial environment and stressing the importance of design in staying ahead of the competitive game. The report is supported by Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers and was launched at the CBI National Conference in November 1999.
To request a copy of this report call 020 7420 5200
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