July 2005 | From the Archives: Designers' Journal, July 1985

Older – but no wiser

For years after 1974, Victor Papanek's Design for the real world was a bible for ethically-minded designers. But it was always about as credible as the Bible itself 28kB

Summer 2005 | Website of PARK

Where have all the great leaders in design gone?

Raymond Loewy, Saul Bass, Paul Rand or George Nelson – such giants are missing.

June 2005 | e-Bulletin of the Design Management Institute

Innovation, branding and organisation: international design managers and their performance

They focus a lot on suppliers, not enough on corporate strategy.

April 2005 | Blueprint

Who's afraid of Virginia Postrel?

Aesthetics are great – but not when they are praised at the expense of engineering. 27kb

20 July 2004 | UK Trade & Investment

The globalisation of UK manufacturing and services, 2004-24: toward the agile economy

For both inward and outbound investment, as well as exports, the UK economy requires a new, agile approach 226kB

9 July 2004 | Philosophy of management

Brands and the Self

Despite recent reversals for the brand, managers still view it as an indispensable and benign kind of alchemy. Meanwhile, critics hold it a swindle. However, the real problem with the brand is that it promises therapeutic solutions to issues that are in fact so big, they can only be resolved by broader social means. Brands can neither overcome the isolation and alienation of the self, nor replace it with a sense of belonging

Autumn 1995 | Demos Quarterly No 7

More to learn from business

Whatever its failings and its dissimilarities, customer service in the private sector has a lot to teach the public sector 168kB

January 1995 | ICOGRADA message board

Time to ask questions of digital media

Review of @HOME, a Doors of Perception conference, Amsterdam, November 1994

1991 | Design

The compression of morbidity

The ageing of Western populations may not hold all the apocalyptic perils, in terms of public expenditure, that we have all been warned about

March 1991 | Management Today

Making a clear impression

For the users of products or services, clarity is the important aspect of corporate identity

November 1990 | Management Today

Chequeless, cashless, clueless in the smart card society

The cashless and chequeless society is here. Yet the industry that has grown up around funds transfer terminals and cards is short on information about what users have let themselves in for

September 1990 | Management Today

An insight into good results

Producing the company's annual report can be a costly exercise. Yet many are ragged in conception and execution, revealing a lack of imagination and management's failure to attend to design quality

December 1989 | Blueprint

Now for the 1990s

Most of the world will live with too little design rather than too much

December 1989 | Blueprint

The land of iced water

Review of Arthur J Pulos, The American Design Adventure, 1940-1975, 1988

25 November 1988 | Campaign

What makes Fiat the big draw

Fiat's posters between the wars remain a marvel to behold 36kB