Design Council

07/10/2026

Do you lead a design team or organise training for designers in your organisation?

Our Skills for Planet Training helps your team develop green design skills for the future and put them into everyday practice.

Choose from an introduction to our Skills for Planet Blueprint, a practical co-design workshop, or a skills audit to identify your team’s strengths and areas for development. We also offer bespoke training shaped around your organisation’s needs.

Delivered by expert trainers, sessions are available online or at your offices, with discounted rates for SMEs and charities.

Explore the options and enquire: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-for-planet/skills-for-planet-training/

01/10/2026

A new skill can change how you approach a familiar challenge.

Upskilling builds on the experience we already have. It gives us opportunities to question established approaches and explore how design can do more for the planet.

Where could developing your skills make a difference in your work?

💬 Share this with someone you’d like to learn alongside, and visit our Skills for Planet training page for more: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-for-planet/skills-for-planet-training/

16/09/2026

07/09/2026

We just launched the Design Economy 2026 report today hosting an event in Parliament and we didn’t come empty handed.

Design is powering the UK’s future and economy. We need to back it up with policy to unlock it’s full potential. We’re calling for:
1. Build regional design capability for good growth
2. Recognise design as a critical enabler of innovation
3. Grow the design workforce of the future
4. Champion design exports and the UK’s digital design advantage
5. Put design at the heart of AI adoption in businesses and public services

Explore the full report via the link in our bio.

01/09/2026

Design reaches far beyond studios and agencies. It can be found across the economy, shaping how organisations work, what they make and the value they create.

The Design Economy reports bring this breadth into focus. It gives us a shared way to understand the people, industries and activity behind design’s contribution to the UK.

Swipe through to explore what we mean by the Design Economy in preparation for the Design Economy 2026 launch.

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11/08/2026

Invention is only one part of innovation.

Planet-centred innovation challenges the idea that new automatically means better. Every product, service or system carries choices about resources, energy, access and behaviour.

Design makes those choices visible early, connecting environmental ambition, human need and commercial viability.

The outcome might be a new technology, a redesigned service, circular business model or new use for existing materials.

Where could widening the brief change your work?

Explore the Skills for Planet Blueprint to identify which green design skills to build next (https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-for-planet/), and watch our Net Zero Living Programme film to see how design can strengthen environmental innovation in practice (https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/projects-programmes/net-zero-living/).