Community
BoDo “Blogs about the business of design including: starting your own design business (online or off); marketing; dealing with clients; working with printers, photographers, copywriters and other surrounding industries; pretty much anything to help a design business grow.”
Added March 8, 2008
Events
Organizations
Better By Design Better by Design aims to help New Zealand companies increase their exports and profits through the better use of design in their products and services.
Added November 12, 2007
Corporate Design Foundation “Corporate Design Foundation is a nonprofit educational and research organization founded on the belief that individual and organizational interests can best be served through the effective use of design disciplines: product design, communication design and architecture.”
Design Business Association “DBA exists to promote professional excellence through productive partnerships between commerce and the design industry to champion effective design which improves the quality of people"s lives.”
Added August 28, 2004
Design Council “To 'inspire and enable the best use of design by the UK, in the world context, to improve prosperity and well-being.'”
Added March 27, 2004
Design Management Institute “International nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy. Founded in 1975, DMI has become the leading resource and international authority on design management.”
Added November 12, 2007
Publications
Designer’s Quest(ionnaire)
Seven questions focused on the hard-working design practitioner—whether independent or in-house.
Design Thought Leader
Blog dedicated to fielding compelling ideas in the practice and theory of design—whatever the discipline. Read more.
