Michael Thomson will speak on using strategic design as a tool for strategic growth, demonstrating how design thinking goes far beyond superficial styling to add value to your business.

NIDA created ‘The Design By Committee’ as a model of design thinking. This first report explains what happened at the initial workshop on 'transport' and makes a concrete case for the power of design thinking, demonstrating the economic and social benefits of design. Don't miss out on getting your hands on the first copies!

And the winner is....

The Office of Innovation and Fumbally Exchange explore themes of Innovation/Creativity/Entrepreneurship/Design in a series of short talks and workshops as tools that facilitate collaboration and Making Work Together.

A half day clinic for creative businesses and designers featuring a practical workshop introducing the tendering process and an informative and inspiring talk with Mark Case director of Whitenoise studios on how to get started and make the most of Tender opportunities.

An interactive evening with a panel posing questions like 'Design effectiveness: Fluff or fundamental'? Read what happened on our events page, and add your own comments if you made it along on the night...

Belfast taking on the world one puppet at a time! Colin Williams, founder of television production company Sixteen South, looks at how a small creative [...]

Read the event write-up. Gavin Strange is a jack of all trades; Senior Online Designer at Aardman Animations by Day and a designer going under the alias Jamfactory by night. Working in the field of Web & Graphics primarily but also dabbling in character design, photography and illustration.

The Northern Ireland Design Alliance is hosting the Creative Entrepreneurs Club in August on the subject of ‘Reimagining – changing apathy into empathy’. Winning both [...]

This is the seventh session in The Evolve Programme run by Blick Studios. The Evolve Programme is aimed at small and start up creative businesses.  [...]

These courses are now closed.  We plan to run further programmes with the DBA in 2011, please check back for updates.

Russell Mills works across a number of creative disciplines – fine art, multimedia, stage and lighting design and has produced record covers and book covers [...]

This is a unique opportunity to hear from Sandra Scott, an 18 year industry veteran, who arrived at IMD in 2008 at the onset of [...]

From its inception as a modest pilot four years ago, running a handful of events in conjunction with the School of Art and Design’s End [...]

Re:Collection is a growing collection of visual communication design created by individuals and companies in Northern Ireland and encompassing historical and contemporary practice. Further information [...]

The Northern Ireland Design Alliance passionately believes in the power of design thinking to solve the bigger problems that we face in industry, culture and [...]

Winning team announced! In January 2011 the NI Design Alliance launched a Design Competition for 2nd year Visual Communications students at the University of Ulster, [...]

‘Insightful’, ‘Entertaining’, ‘Excellent’ Those were just some of the comments about our event with Martin Lambie-Nairn which took place at Belfast’s Waterfront Studio as part [...]

Recognised as a leading authority on experiential branding, design and marketing, Ralph Ardill discussed how struggling brewery, JW Lees, was transformed into a modern, relevant [...]

Creative & Cultural Skills has been working with designers since 2009 to establish a NI Design Alliance with the vision of promoting professional standards, design [...]