Design Council

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| registration_id =272099

| founded_date = {{Start date|df=y|1944|12|19}}

| founder =Hugh Dalton

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| location = Eagle House, 167 City Road, London, EC1V 1AW

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| key_people = CEO Minnie Moll (since 2021)

| area_served =United Kingdom

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| focus =Design

| purpose = To champion great design that improves lives{{cite web |url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/SIR/ENDS99/0000272099_SIR_20130331_E.PDF |title=Summary Information Return 2013 |last=Davids |first=Kim |date=January 31, 2014 |publisher=Charity Commission for England and Wales |access-date=June 1, 2014 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023109/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/SIR/ENDS99/0000272099_SIR_20130331_E.PDF |url-status=dead }}{{rp|1}}

| method =harness design to drive business growth and improve service efficiency; design practical solutions to complex problems; create better, more sustainable places; lead and share the latest thinking on design{{rp|3–4}}

| revenue =£8,855,000{{cite web | url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=272099&SubsidiaryNumber=0|title=272099 – Design Council: Charity Overview|publisher=Charity Commission for England and Wales|access-date=May 31, 2014}}

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| expenses =£8,649,000

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| subsid =Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Design Council Enterprises Limited{{cite web | url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/DCAnnualReport_2012-13.pdf.pdf | title=Design Council Annual Report and Accounts For the year ended 31 March 2013 | publisher=Design Council | access-date=May 31, 2014 | archive-date=16 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116021540/https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/DCAnnualReport_2012-13.pdf.pdf | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=272099&SubsidiaryNumber=0|title=272099 – Design Council: Contact & Trustees|publisher=Charity Commission for England and Wales|access-date=May 31, 2014}}

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| formerly =Council of Industrial Design

| website = {{URL|designcouncil.org.uk}}

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The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by royal charter.{{cite web | url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=272099&SubsidiaryNumber=0|title=272099 – Design Council: Charity Framework|publisher=Charity Commission for England and Wales|access-date=June 1, 2014}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uC8lDwAAQBAJ&q=Design+Council+royal+charter&pg=PA141|title=Design Governance: The CABE Experiment|last1=Carmona|first1=Matthew|last2=Magalhaes|first2=Claudio De|last3=Natarajan|first3=Lucy|date=2016-12-19|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-60768-7|language=en}} Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better".{{cite web | url=http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2013/may/design-council-funds-city-university-london-scholarship-to-develop-new-products-and-services-for-uks-ageing-population | title=Design Council facilitates City scholarship | publisher=City University London | access-date=December 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708075133/http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2013/may/design-council-funds-city-university-london-scholarship-to-develop-new-products-and-services-for-uks-ageing-population |archive-date=8 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}

It was instrumental in the promotion of the concept of inclusive design.{{cite book |title=Inclusive Design: Design for the Whole Population |url=https://archive.org/details/inclusivedesignd00cole |url-access=limited |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clarkson |editor2-first=Roger |editor2-last=Coleman |editor2-link=Roger Coleman (professor)| editor3-first=Simeon |editor3-last=Keates |editor4-first=Cherie |editor4-last=Lebbon |isbn=978-1-85233-700-1 |publisher=Springer |place=London, UK |page=[https://archive.org/details/inclusivedesignd00cole/page/n522 515] |date=2003-04-02 }}

The Design Council's archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives.[http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives/archives/design-council2 The University of Brighton Design Archives: Design Council Archive]

The Design Council operates two subsidiaries, the Design Council Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Design Council CABE) and Design Council Enterprises Limited.

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment{{anchor|CABE}}

The Design Council Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (DC CABE,{{cite letter |first=Martin |last=Temple |recipient=Alireza Sagharchi |subject=[CABE is now part of the Design Council] |date=28 July 2011 |type=typescript |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/Journals/1/Files/2011/8/4/Reponse%20Letter%2001.08.11.pdf |access-date=June 2, 2014}} alternatively Design Council CABE, CABE at the Design Council,{{cite web |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/stellar-list-of-architects-join-new-cabe-review-panel/8661578.article |title=Stellar list of architects join new CABE review panel |first=Max |last=Thompson |publisher=Architects' Journal |date=April 16, 2014 |access-date=June 2, 2014 }} or simply CABE{{cite web |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/cabe-updates-design-review-guidance/8642766.article |title=Cabe updates design review guidance |publisher=Architects' Journal |first=Laura |last=Mark |date=February 14, 2013 |access-date=June 2, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/knowledge-resources/guide/guide-our-built-environment-experts-bees |title=A guide to our Built Environment Experts (BEEs) |publisher=Design Council |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606235435/http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/knowledge-resources/guide/guide-our-built-environment-experts-bees |url-status=dead }}), is one of Design Council's two subsidiaries. It supports communities, local authorities and developers involved in built environment projects by providing services in three areas: design review, customised expert support, and training and continued professional development (CPD).{{cite web |url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-services/built-environment |title=Built Environment |publisher=Design Council |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701010352/http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-services/built-environment |url-status=dead }} These services are supported by a network of Built Environment Experts (BEEs), a multidisciplinary team of 250 experts from “architecture, planning and infrastructure backgrounds, as well as academics, health specialists, and community engagement workers”.{{cite web |url=http://www.architectnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=73:network-of-built-environment-experts-launched&Itemid=90 |title=Network of Built Environment Experts launched |publisher=Architects Choice |year=2012 |access-date=June 3, 2014 }}

Design Council CABE, which is intended to operate as a self-sustaining business,{{cite web |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/cabe-boss-steps-down/8639688.article |title=Cabe boss steps down |first=Merlin |last=Fulcher |date=December 5, 2012 |publisher=Architects' Journal |access-date=June 3, 2014}} was formed on 1 April 2011 with about 20 staff from the original CABE after it was merged with the Design Council.{{cite web |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/cabe-merge-reset-button-for-design-review/8611512.article |title=CABE merge: 'reset button' for design review |first=Richard |last=Waite |publisher=Architects' Journal |date=February 18, 2011 |access-date=June 2, 2014 }} The BEE network was formed in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhoodsgreen.org.uk/design-council-cabe-recruits-built-environment-experts-bees |title=Design Council Cabe recruits Built Environment Experts (BEEs) |publisher=Neighbourhoods Green |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606224138/http://www.neighbourhoodsgreen.org.uk/design-council-cabe-recruits-built-environment-experts-bees |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

History{{anchor|Council of Industrial Design}}

The Design Council began on 19 December 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design (COID), founded by Hugh Dalton, President of the Board of Trade in the wartime Government.{{cite book |last=McDermott |first=Catherine |date=1992 |title=Essential Design |location=London, UK |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |page=81 |isbn=978-0-7475-1936-2 }} Its objective was 'to promote by all practicable means the improvement of design in the products of British industry'.

S. C. Leslie, the council's first director, played an important part in the Britain Can Make It exhibition of 1946. His 1947 successor Sir Gordon Russell established the organisational model for the next 40 years. Under Sir Paul Reilly the organisation changed its name to the Design Council in 1972.{{cite web | url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/Our-History/ | title=Our history | publisher=Design Council | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815135436/http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/Our-History/ |archive-date=August 15, 2011 |access-date=March 9, 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/dcsc/centre.html | title=The Design Centre | publisher=VADS | access-date=May 31, 2014 | archive-date=January 31, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131122710/http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/dcsc/centre.html | url-status=dead }}{{cite conference |url=http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2005/whitworth.pdf |title=Inscribing Design on the Nation: The Creators of the British Council of Industrial Design |first=Lesley |last=Whitworth |journal=Business and Economic History |date=2006 |conference=Business History Conference (2005) |conference-url=http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2005/BEHOLprog05.html |editor-first=William J. |editor-last=Hausman |volume=3 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |issn=1941-7349 |access-date=May 31, 2014 |quote=The Council was re-named the Design Council in 1972 and is still in existence, albeit with a redefined mission statement and a greatly altered modus operandi |page=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512134025/http://thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2005/whitworth.pdf |archive-date=May 12, 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives/archives/design-council2|title=Design Council Archive|publisher=University of Brighton|access-date=June 1, 2014}}

The Design Council was incorporated as a registered charity by royal charter in 1976,{{rp|12}} although it continued to operate as a non-departmental public body.{{rp|50}}

In December 1994 it was restructured, resulting in a functional change from being both an advisory body and a provider of goods and services to a primarily strategic mission “to inspire the best use of design by the United Kingdom in the world context, in order to improve prosperity and wellbeing”.{{cite journal

| last = Benton

| first = Charlotte

| title = The Future Design Council by John Sorrell

| journal = Journal of Design History

| volume = 7

| issue = 4

|date=January 1994

| pages = 310–312

| doi = 10.1093/jdh/7.4.310

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On 1 April 2010 it incorporated a subsidiary trading company called Design Council Enterprises Limited{{cite web|url=http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07211046|title=Design Council Enterprises Limited 07211046|publisher=Department for Business, Innovation & Skills|access-date=June 1, 2014}} to transact “fundraising activities that are not primary-purpose charitable activity.”{{cite web|url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/Design%20Council%20Annual%20Report%202011-12.pdf|title=Annual Report and Accounts For the year ended 31 March 2012|date=September 2012|author=Design Council|page=5|access-date=June 3, 2014|archive-date=6 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606234957/http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/Design%20Council%20Annual%20Report%202011-12.pdf|url-status=dead}}

On 1 April 2011, it ceased to be a non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and became an independent registered charity, although it continued to receive grants from the department.{{rp|5}}{{cite web | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/32441/10-1178-design-council-review.pdf | title=The Design Council | first=Martin | last=Temple | author-link=Martin Temple|publisher=Department for Business, Innovation and Skills | date=October 2010 | access-date=May 31, 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/corporate-information/our-finances/ | title=Our finances | publisher=Design Council | access-date=15 April 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415023624/http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/Corporate-information/Our-finances/ | archive-date=15 April 2012 | url-status=dead }} It also officially merged with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) on the same day{{cite web | url=http://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1054518/design-council-cabe-confirm-merger | title=Design Council and CABE confirm merger | publisher=Planning magazine | access-date=December 20, 2013}} although Design Council CABE was incorporated four days earlier.{{cite web |url=http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07580913 |title=Design Council Commission For Architecture And The Built Environment 07580913 |publisher=Department for Business, Innovation & Skills|access-date=June 3, 2014}}

In 2017, Design Council appointed Sarah Weir (OBE) as their CEO.{{Cite news|url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/16-22-january-2017/design-council-names-sarah-weir-new-chief-executive/|title=Design Council names Sarah Weir as new chief executive – Design Week|date=2017-01-18|work=Design Week|access-date=2018-01-08|language=en-US}}

=The Design Centre=

Sir Gordon Russell, who was heavily involved in the 1951 Festival of Britain, examined ways to reform the education and training of new industrial designers. The Design Centre, in London's Haymarket, was officially opened on 26 April 1956.

The Council under Russell combined exhibitions with product endorsements, direct services to industry, commercial publishing and retail.

After the Design Council's restructuring in 1994, the Design Centre was closed to the public. The Design Council continued to operate from the Design Centre until 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/dcsc/centre.html|title=Design Council Slide Collection: an online guide to the resource|first1=Simon|last1=Ford|first2=John|last2=Davis|publisher=VADS|access-date=June 1, 2014|archive-date=January 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131122710/http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/dcsc/centre.html|url-status=dead}}

= The ''Design'' journal =

Between 1949 and 1999, the Design Council published Design ({{ISSN|0011-9245}}), a “well-regarded magazine of its own”{{cite book |title=Design : the journal of the Design Council |publisher=OCLC |oclc = 612326761}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artblog/2007/oct/30/thelongquietdeathofthede |title=The long, quiet death of the Design Council |work=The Guardian |first=Jonathan |last=Glancey |date= October 30, 2007 |access-date=June 2, 2014 }} The journal ceased publication after the summer issue of 1999.{{cite web |url=http://ipac.ocad.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=otca&&index=ISSNEX&term=0011-9245 |title=Design / [Periodical] |website=Library Catalogue |publisher=OCAD University |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607011127/http://ipac.ocad.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=otca&&index=ISSNEX&term=0011-9245 |url-status=dead }}

Awards given{{anchor|British Design Awards}}

File:Logo British Design Awards 1987.jpg

The council has hosted the British Design Awards, with the 1987 logo rights co-owned with Manchester Metropolitan University.{{cite web | url=http://www.vads.ac.uk/flarge.php?uid=113820&sos=0 | title=British Design Awards 1987 | publisher=VADS | access-date=March 9, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720170050/http://www.vads.ac.uk/flarge.php?uid=113820&sos=0 | archive-date=July 20, 2012 | url-status=dead }} It was suggested in 1995 in Business Strategy Review magazine that the awards made suitable benchmarks, contributing to industrial competitiveness.{{cite journal | title=Competitions and Competitiveness: The Case of British Design Awards | author=Temple, Paul | journal=Business Strategy Review |date=June 1995 | volume=6 | issue=2 | pages=41–52 | issn=1467-8616 | oclc=40336500 | author2=Swann, Peter | doi=10.1111/j.1467-8616.1995.tb00089.x}}

Notes

References

External links

[http://www.designcouncil.org.uk Official website]
[http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives/archives/design-council2 Design Council Archive, University of Brighton Design Archives]
[https://www.youtube.com/user/DesignCouncilUK Design Council YouTube channel]

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Category:Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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Category:Industrial design

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