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Design

The UK is globally renowned as a centre of design excellence and innovation.

Its commercially focused design businesses create everything from consumer electronics to corporate identities, interiors to interactive interfaces, and furniture to Formula 1 cars, exporting more than £100 million in services each year. The UK also has a buoyant craft sector, with world-leading expertise in contemporary, traditional and heritage crafts.

Design Partners

Design Partners is the joint industry/government body which works to increase the UK’s international design business. It is a partnership of the main UK design industry bodies and government bodies involved in supporting UK designers and design companies internationally.

Marketing messages

UK Trade & Investment has developed the following key design messages for you to use in your marketing materials.

Incorporating these messages into your own communications is a great way to increase the impact of your marketing, and make sure your business benefits from the reputation and achievements of the UK design industry as a whole.

The messages are backed up by a wealth of supporting evidence, facts and statistics - making them a unique resource for UK design businesses marketing themselves overseas.

• UK design is passionately creative and eclectic, placing a high value on independent self-expression and critical judgement

• The UK's design sector is highly professional and results-focused, with a strong track record in delivering design-based services to commercial partners

• The UK design sector is supported by a world-class design education system

• UK designers are good at working in multidisciplinary teams and participating in creative-technical/scientific collaboration

• The UK is a design-aware society that believes in the power of good contemporary design to enhance quality of life and economic performance