On the face of it, the Creative Industries Federation is a good thing. The coming together of some 230 organisations from the BBC and Tate to Kent County Council, Harvey Nichols and agencies like Made by Many and Tangerine to lobby government and carry out research can only help redress the perceived downgrading of creativity, particularly in education.
It looks like the initiator Sir John Sorrell has played another blinder in bringing together creative enterprises and engaging government in the process. He tried it in the 1990s as then chairman of the Design Council, though has been closer to achieving it Read full story ›
Source: The Drum