DesignTalks links

Here you'll find useful links to other relevant sites, industry bodies, online resources and more.

SolidWorks UK
Provider of intuitive 3D CAD tools and sponsor of DesignTalks.

The Design Council
The UK national strategic body for design - helping managers become the best users of design in the world, supported by the most skilled and capable design professionals.

The Centre for Sustainable Design
University based organisation facilitating discussion and research of environmentally sustainable product development practices.

The Best of British Industry Awards
The Best of British Industry Awards recognises achievements (including design) by organisations working in, or providing services to, the manufacturing, extracting or process sectors.

D&AD Nesta Product Design And Innovation Awards
The D&AD NESTA Product Design & Innovation Awards are a unique launch pad for young talent.

IF Awards
Since its inauguration in 1953, the iF design award has existed as an enduring, prestigious trademark for outstanding design. Awards include product design, communication design, materials and brand design.

The Chartered Society of Designers Awards
The Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) is the professional body for designers. With over 3000 members in 34 countries, it is the world's largest chartered body of professional designers and is unique in representing designers in all disciplines. The CSD Awards recognise outstanding design achievements.

D&AD Global Awards
The D&AD Global Awards offer the creative community the opportunity to be judged by its harshest critics - its peers. Over 270 eminent creative practitioners selected for their expertise in their field, looking for great ideas that are well executed and appropriate to their mediums.

The Design Week Awards
As a designer or design client you will be immensely proud of the design work you have created. By entering the Design Week Awards you will compete with the best in the business for one of the world's most prestigious annual design prizes, and celebrate creative excellence.

The Plastics Industry Awards
The Plastics Industry Awards celebrate excellence in the plastics industry, and include the Industrial Product Design Award and the Consumer Product Design Award.

The Innovation & Design Excellence Awards
The Innovation & Design Excellence Awards recognise and reward the key role played by mechanical and electronic design engineers to the creation of new and successful products. The awards are organised by the magazines Eureka and New Electronics, in conjunction with Cranfield School of Management.

The Manufacturer Awards
Manufacturing has many great examples of excellence and achievement, and this exciting awards programme is designed to identify, recognise and celebrate these achievements. It doesn't matter if your company is large or small, a major sector player or a member of the supply base, it is the route to improvement that is important. Celebrate your excellence and show the world that manufacturing in the UK is very much alive and well.

The IET Innovation in Engineering Awards
The IET Innovation in Engineering Awards celebrate the products, technologies and processes (15 categories) that lead the way in engineering innovation. The Product Design category rewards design teams and individuals who have developed tangible solutions to specific needs which are both pioneering and original. It can encompass the product itself or a specific feature of the product. The product itself maybe mass-produced or custom-made.

NESTA
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. It is the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Its mission is to transform the UK's capacity for innovation. NESTA invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.

NESTA blog
NESTA's blog on design-led innovation.

DesignerlyThinking : In conversation with Bill Moggridge
What can businesses keen to innovate and improve draw from design? Information on an Innovation Forum event supported and hosted by NESTA, featuring award-winning designer Bill Moggridge.

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