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Ian Callum, Director of Design for Jaguar has been honoured by the Chartered Society of Designers with the prestigious Minerva Medal for his outstanding contribution to automotive design. The Minerva Medal is the highest accolade given by the Society and was presented by the Society’s Patron, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at the Minerva Dinner […]

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 – […]

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 […]

Palace of Westminster, 26th March 2014: The Furniture Makers’ company hosts a Confederation Lunch for corporate members at parliament, meeting MPs and trade bodies to talk about the UK furnishing industry. The British furnishing industry’s charity and patron, The Furniture Makers’ Company,  hosted its fourth annual Confederation Lunch at the House of Commons’ Churchill room […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]