Design Business School is the initiative of the Design Business Council.
We started Australia’s only business school for creatives in 2018 to package our knowledge, experience and learnings about the business of design as DIY online courses.
Fast forward six years and we’ve learnt designers love individual, tailored mentoring supported by practical tools, tips and tactics.
That’s what you’ll find at Design Business Council.
We mentor creative business owners, research best ways to manage design businesses and teams and write a weekly newsletter sharing our knowledge about the business of design.
(We still offer an online studio management program: it’s been too successful to abandon.)
Free resources
One of the values of the Design Business Council is generosity.
Our aim is to give more to our community than we take.
Here’s a few (free) ways to access our research and insights…
Free weekly article
We write an article about the business of design every single week. It’s free, and emailed every Wednesday at 10am AEST.
We write about our experience founding and running a design studio, research into current design practice and share nuggets of information we learn from our coaching and mentoring over at the Design Business Council.
You can register for the Design Business Review and access our archive library of articles here
Follow us on Instagram
Instagram posts, stories and reels are where we play. We share what we’re doing, as well as sharing links, topics and resources we think might interest designers and their design business.
We’re always happy to be tagged if you think you’re doing something that will interest us.
@designbusinesscouncil
Connect on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is a valuable arena for any designer because research shows it’s the social media platform of choice for clients in most industry sectors.
Connect to us to tap into our network of global creatives — we’re always sharing, commenting and posting nuggets of information.
We share content to help designers work smarter, not harder and information to help designers build strong, robust, sustainable businesses.
Say hello Facebook
A necessary evil. Facebook is a place where we post our latest articles and are open to discussion. We also share information we think of interest.
And it’s where we share our thoughts and comment on other articles … we’re always up for a chat.
Connect to our DBC facebook page.
