 The Design Council
- helping businesses become more successful, public services more efficient and
designers more effective
The Design Council is the national strategic body for design and
has existed for more than 60 years. In that time our remit has changed quite a
bit. Some of the things we used to do are now provided by other organisations.
Some of the things we do now are new services that we have developed because the
UK needs different things than it did in 1944. We believe design can help people
to do what they do, better. We have a goal - to help UK managers become the
best users of design in the world, supported by the most skilled and capable
design professionals.
We're funded by the UK government, and we promote the use of
design throughout the UK's businesses and public services. We demonstrate that
design can play a vital role in strengthening our economy and improving our
society
Our Good Design Plan sets out what we plan to achieve
during 2008-2011, and how we will measure our successes. The Good Design Plan
breaks our aims down into five areas. We want to:
- Build the UK’s capacity to innovate and deliver
world-class brands, products and services by supporting the effective use of
design in business and the public sector.
- Drive the development of new solutions to UK social and
economic challenges and involve communities in designing local services.
- Boost high-level skills in design to support a
competitive creative economy and a thriving UK design sector.
- Champion the value of good design and its importance to
social and economic success.
- Be recognised as an exemplar design institution for our
influence, impact and enterprise.
The role of design is essential to the process of generating
the new ideas and ways of doing things that will improve all our lives.
for more information, please
check our website
or contact:
Design Council
34 Bow Street
London WC2E 7DL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0)20 7420 5200
Fax: +44(0)20 7420 5300
page last updated:
27 Apr 2009
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