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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find registered designs in the UK
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
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