Design Council Survey

[Mercy Design]

Design Council | About design | Facts and figures | Design Industry Research 2010

Interesting survey from the Design Council....our industry is predominantly male, predominantly white & predominantly middle aged. Bit scary when you think about it...

Gemma Mercy
Mercy : Design Agency, Literature & Arts Collective : London / Liverpool : UK

[Katedesign]

At least I'm female!!

[Mercy Design]

Yep- not many of us though.
Gemma

Mercy : Design Agency, Literature & Arts Collective : London / Liverpool : UK

[JohnRoss]

our industry is predominantly male, predominantly white & predominantly middle aged. Bit scary when you think about it...

Looks quite healthy to me. I wouldn't have thought 60% male to 40% female was unequal enough to worry about. Average age 38 looks pretty young to me, almost no-one these days defines middle age as starting before 40 or even 45 (I admit having an axe to grind, here). The ethnicity is low, you're right there - I suspect it might be related with the lack of a clear career structure in academic terms, there are so many different routes into design, in comparison with architecture or IT, at least.

[dot design]

The age range is alittle bit strange given the huge amount of design courses available compared to when I studied back in the 1800's

Maybe they just aren't coming through or there is a lack of work for those graduates possibly.