DesignLink: Collaborate with professionals to solve your design challenges.

DesignLink offers businesses the opportunity to work with highly skilled early-stage creatives to tackle their design problems.

Does your business face a design challenge that needs fresh, innovative thinking? DesignLink is your opportunity to work with highly skilled early-stage creatives to tackle your biggest design dilemmas at no cost to you.

DesignLink, created by the Future Island-Island project, aims to solve big, impactful challenges that, if solved, could bring significant change to your business. For example, if your company generates waste materials during production, could they be repurposed into a new product? If you have a workflow bottleneck, could a fresh spatial strategy improve efficiency?

Business benefits:

  • Access expert design thinking for free
  • Minimal time commitment for businesses – less than a day’s effort in total
  • Solutions to your design challenges
  • Fully funded participation

How to get involved:

If your business has a design challenge and would like to get involved in DesignLink, simply email futureislandisland@qub.ac.uk with a brief description of your design problem – just a sentence or two.

Apply by Monday 28 April at 5pm.

Thank you for submitting your application form, a member of the team will be in touch shortly with confirmation of your registration and an Invoice for payment.