Highly commended by the judges
Awarded first prize in the entertainment section, A.3 class, youth organisations, age 19-20
This volume contains signatures of those attending Faculty receptions, luncheons, and dinners. It begins with the first evening reception on 7 November 1950 attended by Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh.
General correspondence to and from the Master of the Faculty, the Secretary and other correspondence has been arranged chronologically. \n\nSubjects include selection and election of members, arrangements for meetings,alterations to bye-laws and a visit to Sweden. Also includes correspondence about a craftsmanship committee and the establishment of a Crafts Centre of Great Britain.Correspondents include John A Milne, Chairman of Council of the Society, Reco Capey, Douglas Cockerell, Geoffrey de Havilland, Milner Gray, Ambrose Heal, Raymond Loewy, Charles Holden, Enid Marx, Gordon Russell, Barnes Wallace, Wells Coates, Duncan Grant, Percy Delf Smith, Ethel Mairet, Astrid Sampe, Robert Gooden, Ashley Havinden
General correspondence to and from the Master of the Faculty, the Secretary and other correspondence has been arranged chronologically.\n\nSubjects include selection and election of members, arrangements for meetings and finance. Correspondents include Neville Ward
This is the first volume of minutes for the Royal Designers for Industry. It covers how the faculty came about and its terms of reference. The faculty's objectives were laid out as the further development of design, the consideration of matters affecting the profession and to maintain and uphold the status of the distinction of RDI and of the Faculty.\n\nThese Minutes date from 9 November 1938 to 11 April 1945.\n
These minutes dates from 1st March 1979 to 28 May 1992.
Published in 1986 as a contribution to the 50th anniversary of the RDI Faculty. Published by the Design Council. \n\nIncludes addresses by Frances Meynell, Milner Gray, Gordon Russell, R D Russell, A B Read, Brian O'Rorke, Barnes Wallis, Laurence Irving, Saul Bass, F H K Henrion, Alex Moulton, Raymond Loewy and James Gardner. Introduction by Fiona Mccarthy
RDI dinners were held each year at the RSA: menus were designed by members of the Faculty
Correspondence and working papers relating to the funding of the Design Busaries Competition. Also correspondence about developing Anglo-American relations via the Design Management Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
In November 1944 the Council of the RSA was invited by the Bishop of Columbo, as chairman of the Columbo New Cathedral Committee to act as the agent in London for his committee in organising a competition open to qualified members of the Royal Institute of British Architects or allied bodies, for a design for the projected new Anglican Cathedral in Columbo. The Council agreed to sponsor the competition and arranged that it should be administered by the Committee of the Dominions and Colonies Section, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harry Lindsay. The choice of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as Assessor had been arranged with the Royal Institute of British Architects.\n\nAmong the correspondence is the conditions of the competition, names and addresses of competitors, administrative correspondence, the Assessors final report and site plans of the cathedral.