<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0f3ec20b-45a0-44ff-8e35-a066232401ba/DC78F417-778A-4247-9E40-8E107E4DC334/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/" href="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.designcouncil.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><H3 class="subheader">Facts and figures</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>Flanders is home to 12,000 design businesses. These are businesses that see design as their core activity.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>The turnover of these 12,000 design businesses is almost €16bn. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>In Flanders, there are almost 11,000 design industry jobs, with a further 200,000 that can be described as design-related.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>In 2004-2005, about 500 students were in the final year of a course that would lead them directly to a design-related career.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>Breakdown of design sector (by number of businesses):</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>Technical and engineering     18%<BR />Textile, jewellery, furniture   2%<BR />Interior architects      7%<BR />Window dressing      2.3%<BR />Printing        7%<BR />Activities related to printing     5%<BR />Photography       9%<BR />Ad agencies       23%<BR />Self employed artists     15%<BR />Services around art     10.7%</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Design-Around-the-World/Belgium/"><P>(Source for all figures: Design Vlaanderen)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC78F417-778A-4247-9E40-8E107E4DC334/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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