Working together for Good Design Practice

The UK Design Skills Alliance is a partnership made up of a wide range of education and industry bodies. The Design Council and Creative and Cultural Skills are at the heart of this, providing operational support with advice and leadership from an Advisory board.

Our partners are working together collaboratively to help designers do more training and development, and to help design educators provide new courses.

Some of these partners will be delivering our projects, while others will work together to promote professional skills with designers, businesses and educators.

In this way - making the most of the excellent work that the design industry and design educators are already doing, and helping our partners learn from each other – the UK Design Skills Alliance will be more efficient and effective.

Find out more about the background to our campaign.

UK Design Skills Alliance partners

• ADM-HEA
• BDI
• CLP
• Creative & Cultural Skills
• CHEAD
• Creative Partnerships
• D&AD
• DBA
• DCMS
• Design Council
• D&TA
• Design Wales
• Greengaged
• HEFCE
• The Lighthouse

We’re making sure designers are guiding the UK Design Skills Alliance

An Advisory Board of people from across the design sector guides and advises the work of the campaign.

They are:

• Chair: Jonathan Sands, Chairman, Elmwood
• Deputy Chair: David Worthington, Deputy Chairman Media Square
• Ingrid Baron, Head of Industrial Design, IDEO
• Ben Casey, Creative Director, The Chase
• Jonathan Corcoran, Director, Wire Design
• David Godber, Deputy Chief Executive, Design Council
• Julian Grice, Managing Director, The Team
• Kevin Jones, Partner, The Attainment Partnership
• Lesley Morris, Head of Design Skills, Design Council
• Victoria Pirie, Executive Director Partnerships and Strategy, Creative and Cultural Skills
• Shan Preddy, Partner, Preddy & Co
• Maureen Wayman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculty of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University