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Journals

Advanced Design & Manufacturing
Features innovations in advanced manufacturing and highlights new products and services.

Appliance Design
Serves design engineers, production engineers and management worldwide in the manufacture of consumer, commercial or business appliances and equipment. Includes RSS news feed.

Building Design
Provides information on all aspects of building design including case studies on sustainable building design. Includes news updates via email and RSS feed, Twitter feed and latest jobs RSS feeds.

Building Design and Construction
Provides information for non residential building owners, contractors, engineers and architects. Includes news updates via blogs, e-newsletter and RSS feeds.

CIBSE Journal
Covers all aspects of building design and management. Includes job RSS feed and news updates via RSS feed and e-newsletter.

Design Engineering
Provides comprehensive information on events and technology trends affecting engineers involved in the design of discrete products or the design of industrial systems. Includes jobs and latest news.

Design Management Review
Covers product design communication and environments. Includes jobs and e-newsletter.

Design News: news for OEM design engineers
Provides information on power transmission, fastening, computers and CAD- CAM, fluid power, electrical and electronic design, new materials, new processes and new patents. Emphasis is on both mechanical and electrical-electronic design. Includes podcasts, webcasts and news updates via blogs, RSS feeds and e-newsletter.

Design Product News
Covers all aspects of product design. Includes updates via RSS feeds.

Design Week
Dedicated to design, news, and features about the industry worldwide.

F X: design in business and society
Covers interior and architectural design within the broad context of business: its impact, uses, and pitfalls. Includes jobs and latest news.

Global Design News: the international magazine for product design engineers
Contains technical news for design engineers in Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Greener Design Update
Presents fresh perspectives on green design. Includes e-newsletter.

New Design
Covers industrial design and packaging for all market sectors. Looks at design management, issues facing designers, new technologies and materials, and branding and management issues.

Professional Associations

British Design Innovation (BDI)
BDI promotes the development of export business through the employment of effective design . The website includes a design news service; a recruitment section; a directory with samples of work from leading UK consultancies; and details of design awards, events and contacts. Includes news updates via RSS feeds.

British Plastics Federation (BPF)
The trade association of the UK Plastics Industry. The website covers the history of plastics and details of the properties and applications of plastics materials. It also includes a searchable industry directory of UK plastics suppliers and manufacturers.

Chartered Society of Designers (CSD)
The professional body representing designers in the UK. It aims to promote high standards of design to foster professionalism and to emphasise designers' responsibility to society.

Crafts Council
The Crafts Council is the national organisation for promoting contemporary craft and craftsmanship in the United Kingdom. Includes updates via e-bulletin.

Design Association
This website was launched by the Chartered Society of Designers. It covers exhibition, fashion, graphic, interactive media, interior, product and textile design.

Design Council
UK organisation that aims to help business and other organisations to use design more effectively. The site includes historical and background information about the Council, as well as information on its current and future projects and events and a wide range of design case studies.

Design and Technology Association
The Design and Technology Association is a professional association which represents all those involved in design and technology education and associated subject areas in the UK.

Design Business Association (DBA)
The DBA is a UK-based trade association for design consultancies. It includes information regarding membership, details of events, training courses and publications.

Design for the World
Founded in 1998 by three of the world's leading international design associations - ICOGRADA (graphic design), IFI (interior design) and ICSID (industrial design) - with the support of the Barcelona Design Centre (Fundació BCD).

Design Management Institute
Based in Boston the Design Management Institute ( DMI ) serves designers and educators involved in product development. Includes jobs.

Icograda
This is the website of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA), the professional world body for graphic design and visual communication. Includes design case studies and news updates via blog and email.

Institute of Engineering Designers (IED)
IED is the UK's professional body for designers. The website includes professional codes of conduct and resources for students, including a list of university and college courses accredited by the IED. Jobs postings are also available.

International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI)
Promotes interior architecture and interior design worldwide.

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)
Includes ICSID news and activities, along with a calendar of international industrial design events. Includes design case studies and news updates via blog and email.

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