Product Design
Archived Projects Hometime Responding to the current boom in home-ownership and home decoration among young, professional, urban Chinese, Hometime is a major exhibition for China about domestic interior design which will tour China as part of Britain’s commercial and cultural campaign, Think UK during 2003. (Autumn 2003)
The British Council commissioned 20 graphic designers to explore the potential of the new technology used in the Chameleon Unit by SMF Displays.
From own-brand sardine packaging to fancy matchbooks, from restaurant interiors to shopping websites, from gourmet magazines to delivery trucks, Britain’s designers have transformed Britain from a nation that ate to live into one that lives to eat.
This exhibition showed the diversity of opportunity for the manufacture of work available to designers in London.
The British Council showcased the work of UK graduating students at the British Council office in Milan during the Milan Furniture Fair
Designed For Use Designed for Use looks at the development from design brief to retail of 20 commercial products by 15 of Britain’s leading industrial design agencies. (Summer 2002)
Spheres Spheres was a collaboration with designer Tom Dixon to produce the first retrospective of his work. (Summer 1999)
Millennium Products British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched the Design Council's Millennium Products initiative in 1997 by challenging UK businesses to present products and services placed on the market since January 1995 that exemplify contemporary innovation and creativity as we enter the new millennium. (summer 1999)
Fancy Goods Fancy Goods was an installation of British product design at the British Council offices in Prague (Winter 1997)
Philippines Design Residency On behalf of the Philippines Department of Trade we recruited a UK designer for a four-month consultancy in product design and development.
UK Package UK Pack Age explored the design of packaging for food and drink, computer hardware, clothing, gifts, life, death and music.
Read about the 15 winners of the British Council's annual student design competition, whose work was exhibited at the British Council office in the heart of Milan during the Milan Furniture Fair. The nationwide competition received a huge amount of interest, with nearly 200 entries from colleges and universities around Britain, and was judged by Tom Dixon, Thorsten Van Elten, and the British Council Design team.
Inside British Industry Dan Holdsworth was commissioned to create a series of images of industry, technology and manufacturing and to transfer his interest in the built environment to shop floors and factories. (Summer 2002)
Read more about the graduating students from the UK who demonstrated their talent in a show at the British Council offices in Milan during the Milan Furniture Fair in 2005.
Read about our lighting exhibition and the British designers who exhibited their work during 2004 - 5.
