Design Week Awards 2019 opens for entries
Entries are open for the all new Design Week Awards, which includes new categories and in June a different kind of party to celebrate the winners.
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Improve your skills with a Design Week training course
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Design Week Top 100 – full table and analysis
Find out how to access this year’s Top 100 and purchase your copy of the report, which ranks the 100 most successful independent UK design businesses.
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Type designer Jeremy Tankard overhauls online store
Type designer Jeremy Tankard has redesigned his typography.net site so that it works across all devices and can offer buyers trial features across a platform which is easier to navigate.
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How to design packaging that works in-store and on-screen
Equator managing director Gary Flynn draws on his specialism in integrated packaging and discusses the challenges of creating packaging that works as well online as it does in store.
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Haptic Architects teach the benefits of the Scandinavian “work life balance”
Studio director Lucy Painter, who specialises in recruitment within the design sector, speaks to Haptic Architects about how to integrate Scandinavian working practises into a creative business in the UK.
The secret to capturing design effectiveness data
Design Business Association head of services Adam Fennelow looks at why designers should make design effectiveness part of the conversation they have with clients from the get go.
Design Week Awards 2017 deadline extended
You now have a couple more weeks to enter the Design Week Awards, which is back with a bunch of new awards alongside our most popular categories. It’s time to
Meetings that move people – how to create personal confidence
John Scarrott, trainer and coach to design businesses, looks at how improve your personal confidence in the final part of his series, which also looks at preparation, practise and performance.
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New packaging regulations: new design opportunity
Consultancy Equator looks at how why companies will have to think carefully about how their packaging is designed after new food labelling standards are introduced in the US in 2018.
Meetings that move people – How to perform
We have already established how to prepare and practise for a meeting or presentation to clients and prospective clients-to-be. In the third part of this “Four P’s” series, John Scarrott, trainer and
Meetings that move people – How to practise
The time spent meeting and presenting to clients or clients-to-be is more valuable to consultancies than ever before. But are you making the most of yours? Following on from the first
Meetings that move people – How to prepare
The time spent meeting and presenting to clients or clients-to-be is more precious and valuable to agencies than ever before. But are you making the most of yours? In the
How investing in staff training could help grow your business
Adam Fennelow, head of services at the Design Business Association (DBA), talks about how focusing on staff development could benefit your business’ revenue.
How to create new, new business
Design business advisor John Scarrott shares tips on how to win new business by getting to know your clients and building up trust before offering your services.
Need to network but hate the idea of doing it? Here are some tips…
Trainer and coach John Scarrott offers four tips to help you overcome your fear of networking.
The seven dimensions of pitching – which ones do you recognise?
Is a pitch just a pitch? DBA membership director John Scarrott identifies seven different versions of the design pitch. Which ones do you recognise?
“Action breeds confidence” – how to grow as a design business
The DBA’s John Scarrott looks at how design businesses at all stages of development can build their confidence.
Webinar – four ways to turn your creative team from fragile to agile
Design Week and Workfront are presenting a webinar showing how creative teams can move to agile.
How to build and run creative teams
Design Week’s recent Breakfast Briefing session, held in partnership with Workfront, looked at how to set up and manage creative teams. Barclays digital design director Noel Lyons and AKQA associate
