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24.09.2014
PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE… a better understanding
Kevin McParland ACII sheds some light on the need for PI Cover, its origins and why practising designers should be covered. Compared with fire and marine insurance the need for what is generally known as Professional Indemnity Insurance is a recent development. A landmark legal case in 1964 – Hedley Byrne v Heller and Partners – […]
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07.07.2014
CSD Student Satisfaction Survey 2014
As the professional body for design, the Society provides an accreditation programme that meets the needs of the profession and the industry, encouraging and enabling design education to deliver fit for purpose design learning for the benefit of all involved. This Spring the Society surveyed the services provided for design students at University. We conducted […]
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20.02.2014
INTERIOR DESIGN PATHWAY
At its recent AGM, the Society elected and welcomed David Callcott FCSD as its new President. His journey through both his design career and membership of design bodies makes for a compelling read and not only illustrates the development of his career but also that of the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) and the wider […]
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17.01.2014
Oliver Bayldon FCSD Reflects on a Career of Television Scenic Design in ‘The Veteran’, 2013
Oliver Bayldon FCSD, a Fellow of the Society since 1986, reflects on ‘the plywood world’ of television scenic design and its transformation in an article from the 2013 Winter Issue of The Veteran, the magazine of the British Cinema and Television Veterans. ‘At the age of five, I was taken to see Where the Rainbow […]
Categories: Chartered Society of Designers, News -
06.01.2014
Social Media and Communications
This year, the Chartered Society of Designers is rolling out a number of new social channels. We’ve live-tweeted our 38th AGM, employed the use of Instagram and Pinterest to share design images and visual updates of our travels to events, and we’ve set up a Facebook page so that members and the public will be able […]
Categories: Chartered Society of Designers