Showing little foresight
The Government’s Technology Foresight programme is trying to make scientific advances and new technology accessible to UK industry, so why do so few people know about it? Michael Evamy reports
The Government’s Technology Foresight programme is trying to make scientific advances and new technology accessible to UK industry, so why do so few people know about it? Michael Evamy reports
NEWS – The Design Council has filled two of its four vacant director posts. Its first director of research will be Angela Dumas, who has been the interim manager for
In the week that the RIBA’s four-year strategic study into the future of architecture is concluded, Jeremy Myerson asks why the design industry has made no similar preparations
Interbrand Schechter in New York has won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Excellence for its redesign of the Aramark identity. Philadelphia-based Aramark, formerly named Ara Group, provides management services
City & Guilds, the UK training and education awards organisation, has introduced a new corporate identity designed by The Partners.
The phenominal growth of the Internet has seen the development of media houses producing independent, cost-effective advertising through the Net. Steve Bowbrick believes designers clued into the Web could play
Going on the general ambience at this year’s industrial design degree show at the RCA, the days of precious spot-lit plinths are thankfully over. This year you enter a buzzing
Manchester consultancy Spoken Image has been validated by the Open University to award National Vocational Qualifications in graphic, product and interior design. The consultancy becomes one of the first centres
For the past two years The Royal College of Art has been through administrative shake-ups which have led to the fusion of the different schools. The resulting cross-fertilisation of ideas
The schools of design in Scotland are collaborating to launch a national initiative aimed at creating greater links between design education and industry. Called Industry and Design Education Action Scotland
British Design and Art Direction, the newly renamed design and advertising charity, is reviewing its education policy to take more account of practitioners’ needs. Former Design Business Association director Vicky
In his letter (DW 17 March), Peter Miles detracts from the main purpose behind Ray Leigh’s initiative in setting up the National Furniture Forum – countering fragmentation in the industry.