17Jul 2023 by Andrew No Comments

Heading back to Atlanta

News
We are delighted to have been invited to participate in the Atlanta Design Festival 2023, and equally pleased to have been asked to update our previous analysis of the value of the design economy to the City. Our analysis will look at performance from 2017 onwards, so it will be fascinating to contemplate the impact of the pandemic on this important industry. We look forward to reporting back on the Festival later in the year
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01Oct 2020 by Andy No Comments

Design Economy work platformed at Atlanta Design Festival

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Over recent years we have built up a close working relationship with the Atlanta Design Festival and have been honoured to have contributed on three occasions. One of the many disappointments of 2020 has been the postponement of the Festival.  But Festival organisers MA! are nothing if not adaptive and innovative.  Instead of holding a physical festival this year, they converted the Festival to an online event from 12th to 20th September. We were delighted to see the work we completed for them about the size and scale of the Atlanta Design Economy platformed in one of the sessions.  The presentation can be found at https://atlantadesignfestival.net/ We’re currently thinking about how design might help cities and places improve their recovery from the economic and social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. …
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04Jun 2017 by Andy No Comments

The Design Economy

Charity, Research, analysis and evidence, Sectors
Design Council commissioned our team (while at TBR) to undertake an important and ground-breaking research study which articulated the value of design in the UK. The key challenge for Design Council was to present a comprehensive assessment of the value and importance of design to the UK economy. Previous methodologies had been limited in that they relied on vertical definitions of design and therefore covered only a proportion of the sector. Advancements in measuring sector scale and importance had been made in the creative industries, leading to the adoption of new techniques and the acceptance of the results of these techniques by the UK government. Initially, Design Council employed us to deliver a scoping study which explored definitions of the sector and proposed a modified version of the creative industries…
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