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Derek Birdsall

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 / Periodical / Journal
  • Designer/s Derek Birdsall and Anthony Froshaug
  • Year 1965
  • Client/Publisher Council of Industrial Design
  • Size 210mm x 300mm
Derek Birdsall and Anthony Froshaug
Anthony Froshaug (1920–1984) was a British typographer, printer, and educator whose teaching and practice were highly influential in postwar British design. He combined a modernist approach with craftsmanship and taught at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Explore related designers including Herbert Spencer and Anthony Froshaug. See also British Modernism and 1950s graphic design history.
Derek Birdsall was born in Yorkshire in 1934. His clients included magazines such as Town, Twen and Nova and numerous companies and organisations including  British Iron & Steel Federation, the British Railways, Morphy Richard. Pirelli, Dorothy Gray, Penguin Books and the Mobil Oil Corporation. Birdsall was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Royal Designer for Industry (1982), and won numerous awards including gold medal of the New York Art Directors Club (1987) and the Prince Philip Designers prize (2005). Explore related designers including 8vo and Neville Brody. See also Postmodernism and 1990s graphic design history.
Design (Council of Industrial Design)
Design was published by the Council of Industrial Design from the 1940s until the 1990s. It covers design policy, exhibitions, and products.

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