What we mean by design

The design industry covers a range of disciplines including communications, graphic, product and industrial, interior and exhibitions, digital and multimedia and service design. Design is an integral part of modern culture combining aesthetic techniques, practicality and creativity to deliver solutions that make our everyday life simpler and our businesses more effective.

UK Design Skills Alliance

Creative & Cultural Skills is working in partnership with the Design Council to help steer the UK Design Skills Alliance. The UK Design Skills Alliance aims to join up and support the skills development activities of schools, colleges and industry to secure the design sector’s position as a world-leading centre for design skills and education. It aims to act as a catalyst for change, providing coherence and focus to a fragmented sector and will work closely with partners to help raise professional standards in design industry practice and education in the UK. The ambitions of the Design Alliance can be read here.
 

Where to find design research statistics

Design research has taken place across the UK during the past decade including through our Creative Blueprint. The Design Blueprint is available in PDF.

Getting into the design industry

Creative Choices° is the first online service to provide the tools, knowledge and networks to support every individual and business to get in, and get on, in the creative industries and cultural sector.

More information can be obtained from the Useful Links section on the right.