Norwegian Design Council ( no, Norsk Designråd) was a Norwegian state-controlled foundation that encouraged good

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

of Norwegian products as a key to improved innovation and the products international reputation and sales. Among the activities of the Norwegian Design Council were awarding the ''Merket for God Design'' and ''Design Effekt'' awards. It also cooperated closely with Innovation Norway concerning new ventures. The council worked as a competence centre and was funded by the

Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry ( Norwegian: Nærings- og handelsdepartementet) was a Norwegian ministry responsible for business, trade and industry. On 1 January 2014 it was merged into Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheri ...

, through consulting and through other projects. The Norwegian Design Council was founded in 1963 by the Norwegian Export Council and the

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise ( no, Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, NHO) is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 30,000 members. It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwe ...

. In 2014, the Norwegian Design and Architecture Centre (''Norsk design- og arkitektursenter'') was established as a fusion of the Norwegian Design Council with the Norwegian Form (''Norsk Form''), a national institution working in the fields of design, architecture, and urban development. The combined entity is housed in two renovated industrial buildings by the Aker River on Hausmanns gate in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

.Katrine Kalleklev: ''Norsk design- og arkitektursenter'' (Store norske leksikon)
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Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture. website
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