Dmist Research is a specialist supplier of unique technology that provides real-time, fully automatic, natural colour video enhancement for adverse viewing conditions. They chose BDI member Butters Innovation to develop this into a desirable, marketable product.

Design is very much on top of the agenda in the EU. The European Design Leadership Board has submitted a report entitled Design for Growth and Prosperity report to the European Commission.

In an interview with Eureka Magazine, BDI Chairman Gus Desbarats bemoans the strained relationship that often exists between Industrial designers and design engineers in the UK, which he believes has had a negative effect on British industry for many years.

The new president of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Professor Andy Hopper, has called on the government to give SMEs open access to the IP created in universities.

Until now taking legal action against others who try to take advantage of someone else's creativity has been beyond the reach of most people. The new small claims track will provide access to justice for those whose works are regularly infringed.

The MAS programme is funded by BIS (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and is designed to help manufacturers streamline processes, reduce waste, become more energy efficient and generally improve and grow in their business.

Working with BDI member 3form Design has proved very worthwhile for Ash Reza, a potential entrepreneur on the BBC Three’s Be Your Own Boss programme. He won the 2nd highest amount awarded on the show to progress his innovative Myyfeed® feeding bottle to market.

BDI members Dalziel + Pow continue to invest in design talent by taking on a number of placement students every year. They have run a successful programme with Nottingham Trent’s Interior Architecture degree course for around ten years.

BDI member Live|work is currently working alongside Willow Bank Partnership in Stoke on Trent, a social enterprise surgery owned by the staff, to help them provide an improved and more cost efficient service.

BDI member Hyphen Design will offer product development services to UK and overseas based clients through the group’s consulting arm, Marks & Clerk Consulting LLP. The alliance reflects the group’s strategic objective to diversify its services beyond IP protection, litigation and licensing.

BDI member Dalziel + Pow has created the interiors for the new branch of Primark, which has opened on London’s Oxford Street the second Primark store to open on the street using their interior design.

BDI member Live|work are helping the Green Building Council (GBC) to improve the success of their new policy, a pay as you save finance for home energy efficiency.

BDI member Smallfry has launched Created Futures™, which is aimed at business leaders and senior management teams who are looking for insights, business cases and hands-on experience to inspire teams and deliver tangible outcomes.

Ben Reason, Business Development Director at BDI member Live|work, will be speaking at the Service Design Global Conference later this month in Paris.

World-renowned London department store Liberty has snapped up a fabric design by a recent graduate of the University for the Creative Arts (UCA)*.

The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) has adopted a report by on an ‘internationalisation strategy’ to create a single set of rules for small companies to boost their competitiveness and business opportunities and foster an entrepreneurial culture.

BDI member 3form Design has been working with Ash Reza, one of the potential entrepreneurs taking part in the BBC’s Be you Own Boss, to create the Myyfeed®‒ a unique and novel feeding bottle.

The conversion of the old Commonwealth Institute in Kensington into a new home for the Design Museum has got under way at a cost of £80 million.

Improved public procurement of design, zero tolerance of IP infringement and the creation of a new ‘Designed in the European Union’ label are among the recommendations in a new Europe-wide report on design policy.

Sonar expert Jeff Neasham has used cheap components to make a hand-held scanner that can plug into a laptop and produce pictures of the unborn child on the computer screen.