This page brings together projects where there are elements from the many different sub-disciplines of design. Many of the projects on this page celebrate these arts applied at their most practical level - in industry, in everyday items and in a concern for the environment. Design in Britain website
As part of London Design Festival 2008, the British Council organised a series of activities including the International Young Design Entrepreneur award and the inaugural final of the UK Young Design Entrepreneur award. Our Design & Architecture team also had a stand at 100% Design showcasing the work of some of the finalists in the Young Design Entrepreneur awards programme.
In 2003 the Guangzhou design curator Ou Ning organised Get it Louder, the most substantial showing ever of contemporary Chinese design. In 2007 Ou Ning decided to organise a sequel, but this time with international designers from the UK, the Netherlands and Japan invited to participate in a grand spectacle in three cities that launched in Guangzhou.
Since launching in Moscow in 2005, the Design & Architecture team have been running a global campaign for the design of better souvenirs. The campaign focuses particularly on parts of the world that do not have effective contemporary symbols, with workshops so far having been held in Warsaw, Shanghai, Brussels, Kolkata, Mumbai, Budapest and Caracas.
New work from seven young British designers features in this international exhibition which explores subjectivity and personalisation in design. Read more about the designers and the exhibition's tour of Europe.
The Design & Architecture team have a valuable role in using our knowledge and global network to enlarge the international perspective and status of design and architecture in Britain. In accordance with this objective, we introduced six designers from countries outside the conventional design world, discovered as a result of our international design programme, to the London Design Festival in an exhibition titled The New World.
Love & Money, organised jointly by the British Council and UK Trade & Investment, features twenty projects and designers that balance business ambition and commercial success with the invention and experimentation for which Britain’s creative industries are internationally renowned.
To mark the golden jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the British Council’s Design Promotion Department, has produced a series of 12 posters celebrating icons of contemporary British design
See all archived projects 