Design Council
Design Council at 407 St John Street
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| Founded | 19 December 1944 |
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| Founder | Hugh Dalton |
| Registration no. | 272099 |
| Focus | Design |
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Area served
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United Kingdom |
| 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 |
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Key people
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Chair Martin Temple Chief Executive John Mathers |
| Subsidiaries | Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Design Council Enterprises Limited |
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Revenue
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£8,855,000 |
| Expenses | £8,649,000 |
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Employees
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59 |
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Volunteers
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0 |
| Mission | To champion great design that improves lives |
| Website | designcouncil |
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Formerly called
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Council of Industrial Design |
The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by Royal Charter. Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better". It was instrumental in the promoting of the concept of inclusive design.
The Design Council's archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives.
The Design Council also runs two subsidiaries, the Design Council Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Design Council CABE) and Design Council Enterprises Limited.
The Design Council Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (DC CABE), also variously called Design Council CABE, CABE at the Design Council, or often simply CABE, 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). 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”.
Design Council CABE, which is intended to be run as a “self-sustaining business”, was formed on April 1, 2011 from about 20 staff from the original CABE after it was merged with the Design Council. The BEE network was formed in 2012.
The Design Council started 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. And 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. It was 1947 successor Sir Gordon Russell who established the organisation's model for the next 40 years. Under Sir Paul Reilly in the early '70s, the organisation changed its name to the Design Council in 1972.
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