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Ken Garland

Design, Council of Industrial Design, 086, February 1956

Content includes:
The compleat designer
Pointers
The Design Centre as an exhibition design problem
Furniture for school children by Sydney Foott
Disguise for clocks
Potters Bar by John E. Blake
Courses for customers by Jean Stewart
A source of pattern
New identity for diverse products by Rosetta Desbrow
Equipping hospitals

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Ken Garland
Ken Garland studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst at the School he studied alongside designers Ken Briggs, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes. Explore related designers including FHK Henrion and Herbert Spencer. See also British Modernism, Design magazine, and British 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, 92, February 1956. Cover design by Ken Garland
Design, Council of Industrial Design, 86, February 1956. Cover design by Ken Garland

 

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