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At a packed conference of industry professionals in the Furniture Industry, organised by the National Furniture Association last week at the Coventry Building Society Arena, ACID’s Chair, Dids Macdonald OBE, using an iceberg as an analogy said about artificial intelligence, “What we know is minimal and exciting, but what we don’t know is daunting and poses enormous risk.”
ACID’s recent lunchtime learning webinar with SnapDragon Monitoring was a timely reminder of the threats to brands and designers online, especially as we enter one of the busiest periods of the year; not least because of the rise in AI data scraping causing much concern amongst the design community. If you missed the webinar, here’s how you can best protect your brand online should you ever encounter the worst.
Launched today at Westminster is the latest Design Economy 2026, the Design Council’s flagship tri-annual study into the value of design, shows the scale of design’s contribution across industries, places and jobs, and argues that strengthening design capability will be critical to delivering good growth across the UK. 
The Government has responded. Now it’s time to make sure creators’ rights are protected.

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