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A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Find registered designs in the UK
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
New British designers to benefit from £2 million government funding to showcase their work at London Fashion Week
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
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