What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | EUIPO (registered Community designs), WIPO Hague system, national IP offices (DPMA, INPI, UKIPO) | per design registration/application, with applicant, designer, Locarno class… | public |
| reviews & sentiment | B2B review platforms (Clutch, DesignRush, Sortlist), portfolio platforms (Behance, Dribbble), Google Business profiles | per client review of a studio; per portfolio project engagement metrics | public |
| financial filings | national business registers (Companies House, Handelsregister, Infogreffe) and aggregators (Orbis/Bureau van Dijk, Dun & Bradstreet) | annual accounts per design studio/legal entity | public |
| pricing | professional bodies and rate surveys (BEDA, design associations, AIGA-style fee guides), freelance platforms publishing rate ranges… | hourly/day rate by discipline, seniority and country; per contract award value | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | materials libraries and specification databases used by product/textile/furniture designers (Material ConneXion, Materiom, supplier CAD/BOM… | per material or component SKU; per bill-of-materials line in a design project | purchasable |
| employment & workforce | national statistical offices and Eurostat (SBS, LFS by NACE 74.1), LinkedIn/Lightcast job-posting datasets, design association member… | annual aggregate by class and region; per job posting; per member firm headcount | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | design studios and freelancers themselves; practice-management/invoicing SaaS vendors (Harvest, Productive, Scoro, FreeAgent); freelance… | per project, per invoice line, per billed hour | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | design studios via timesheet/resource-planning tools (Float, Productive, Runn); their SaaS vendors hold aggregate benchmarks | per designer per day; monthly utilisation and billable-ratio per studio | partnership |
| customer demographics | design studios' CRM records; agency-client relationship trackers (Winmo, R3, Sortlist) | per client account: sector, size, country, spend band | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | individual studios' web/social analytics; portfolio platforms (Behance, Dribbble, Instagram) and their API partners | per project post: views, appreciations, follows; per campaign for client-facing… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | testing and certification bodies (TÜV, SGS, Intertek) engaged on designed products; notified bodies; client manufacturers | per prototype/product test report (CE, REACH, EN standards) | partnership |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.