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Singer Fashion Academy is the First Sri Lankan Institute to have courses awarded CSD Validated status. The award to five of the courses continues the Society’s strategy of engaging with those studying and practicing in ‘design related’ fields. All five short courses offer students the opportunity to develop and enhance their technical skills as well […]

Two courses at Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia have been awarded CSD Validated status. The courses delivered by the Department of Interior Design Engineering are ‘Autodesk Revit’ and ‘Evidence Based Design’, both enjoying popularity amongst interior architecture students. Prince Sultan University was originally founded in 1999 as Prince Sultan Private College, but, in 2003, […]

On 24 October 2017, the Montréal Design Declaration was signed by eighteen international organisations, representing upwards of a million practitioners. The Montréal Design Declaration is an historic milestone for the international design community. For the first time, the international organisations representing designers, architects, planners and landscape architects are speaking with one voice, outlining the potential of design […]

The 42nd Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Friday 15 December at The Mine – IOM3 in London. As ever there will be an opportunity to network with old and new friends from all design disciplines. This year we welcome Dean Johnson FCSD a regular commentator on new technologies, presenter and […]

On behalf of the design community, the Society will be carrying out business conditions surveys on a quarterly basis. The survey will collect data from respondents on their current and expected business performance across a range of indicators. Q4 2017 Design Business Survey. Please rake a moment to complete your quick survey by clicking the […]

Two master of design courses at the Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) are the latest to gain Chartered Society of Designers accreditation within the CSD Course Endorsement Programme, a collaborative initiative with academia that recognises and supports excellence in nurturing designers ‘from learning to earning’™. C4D was established to address the ‘Cox Review of […]

Announcing Phaidon’s Fall 2017 Books From Annie Leibovitz to Massimo Bottura and Yves St Laurent to John Pawson, fill your shelves with the world’s most beautiful books. Download the Phaidon catalogue here and login and go to the ‘member’s offers’ section for great discounts.  

Frank Peters FCSD, Chief Executive of the Chartered Society of Designers and Jaco Von Wielligh, Academic Director of IHTTI. First academic institution outside of the U.K. to receive accreditation by the Chartered Society of Designers The Chartered Society of Designers has accredited three courses at IHTTI School of Hotel Management in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The Society’s […]

At St. James’s Palace last night the Prince Philip Designers Prize was presented to the English furniture designer and maker John Makepeace OBE FCSD by our Patron, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. The prize, re-introduced this year by the Society, recognises an outstanding lifetime achievement and contribution to design.  The other 2016 nominees […]

The six nominees for the 2016 Prince Philip Designers Prize have been announced by the Chartered Society of Designers. Each year organisations within the design sector are invited to nominate a designer or design team they consider to have achieved at the highest level and made an outstanding lifetime contribution to design. This year’s winner will […]