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Design, Council of Industrial Design, 192, December 1965

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A special issue on the Royal College of Art, written by Ken Baynes
The dodo: its life and hard times, Ken Baynes discusses the history of the RCA as an educator of industrial designers, from its birth as the School of Design in the eighteen-thirties to the crisis years of 1946-48
The making of a reputation, This feature takes the story on in detail from the RCA’s re-organisation under Robin Darwin
The evidence – a survey of student work
The new buildings
Baleful or beneficent ?

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Derek Birdsall and Anthony Froshaug
  • Year: 1965
  • Client/Publisher: Council of Industrial Design
  • Size: 210mm x 300mm

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Design, Council of Industrial Design, 192, December 1965. Cover by Derek Birdsall and Anthony Froshaug
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