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Design, Council of Industrial Design, 233, May 1968

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Content includes:
Breaking down the barriers
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Prize for Elegant Design
ColD Design Awards: consumer goods: Hull Traders fabrics, Hille table, Perspective Designs furniture, William Plunkett chair, William Plunkett table, Sealmaster door and window seals, Merchant Adventurers light fitting, Wrighton kitchen furniture, Rotaflex Concord lighting, Clamcleats, Heal’s fabrics, London & Provincial poster display
ColD Design Awards: capital goods: Rolls-Royce shunting locomotive, Ernest Scragg crimping machine, Marconi colour tv camera, Mather & Platt AC motors, Stothert & Pitt dockside crane, Fenner worm gear reducer
Gordon Russell today by Coin Hughes-Stanton
Setting for by José Manser
Blow-up structures
Projects and developments
Products, interiors, events, ideas

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Year: 1968
  • Client/Publisher: Council of Industrial Design
  • Size: 210mm x 300mm

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Design, Council of Industrial Design, 233, May 1968. Cover photo by Ray Dean
Design, Council of Industrial Design, 233, May 1968. Cover photo by Ray Dean
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