Design Resources

RIBA - architecture.com

All about architecture and run by RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects) this is one of the world's most extensive built environment portals.

The careers area provides information about becoming an architect and jobs listings, and there are online debates to interest and involve anyone with experience of the built environment, as well as an exceptional reference area.

Arts Hole

Providing professional, emerging and student artists with a free platform to showcase and sell their exclusive and original artwork, Arts Hole is an online source for creative talent.

A website dedicated to promoting and selling the work of new and contemporary artists, it covers all degrees of art from fine art to design, pottery to photography, film to fashion and animation to illustration

Arts Matrix

Arts Matrix is the continuing professional development agency for creative practitioners in the South West. They enable individuals working in the creative industries – designers, architects and actors, poets and painters, musicians, magicians, designers and dancers - to make the most of their careers.

BOUF

BOUF is a Superboutique, specialising in limited-edition, niche, innovative, bespoke, eco-friendly and new-to-market items, from fashion, food and furniture to gadgets, footwear and gifts. Their ground-breaking Seller Account enables artists, designer-makers and niche brands sell their products quickly and easily to international consumers on the BOUF website.

CIDA - Cultural Industries Development Agency

The Cultural Industries Development Agency (CIDA) is the leading creative and cultural industries support agency in East London.

Creative Pool

If you are looking for a job UK advertising, creative, design, media or web job then Creative Pool is the place to plan your next career move. They have hundreds of jobs everyday in the design, advertising, architecture, interiors, new media, games and print industries.

D&AD

D&AD's graduating creatives programme provides graduates with a much needed link to the design, advertising and creative industries.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creativity programme for schools and young people, managed by Arts Council England and funded by the DfES and DCMS. It aims to develop the creativity of young people; the skills of teachers; schools' approaches to culture and creativity; and the skills, capacity and sustainability of the creative industries.

Creative Scotland Awards

Each year, up to ten established artists with a record of major achievement in their field are awarded £30,000 to provide them with a unique opportunity to realise their imaginative ideas in a major project. The Award may also be used to experiment, or to discover new talents. Each artist also receives a beautiful glass award created by Scottish glass artist Anita Pate.