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RSA/PR/DE/100/10/21 · Item · 1981-1984
Part of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

The Award was established to complement RSA student award activities at undergraduate level by the active encouragement of outstanding design projects/studies, related to communications, at postgraduate level. It was also hoped that it would enhance the status of such postgraduate studies and that the results of these studies might benefit the community at large and /or British Telecom in particular.\n\nAdministrative correspondence relating to the establishment of the RDI/British Telecom Design Awards (Royal Designers annual awards in communications).

Burton Award
RSA/PR/DE/100/10/10 · Item · 1977-1979
Part of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

In 1973 the Burton Group introduced a series of awards which were designed to examine and improve the effectiveness of the designer's role in industry. These awards were administered variously by the RSA, the Design Council, The Royal College of Arts and the Society of industrial Artists and Designers with funds provided by the Burton Group.\n\nPart 1: The Burton Group Design Award Report for the Royal Society of Arts. \n ''The Needs of the Manufacturing Sector in their Expectations of Industrial\n Designers' by John Collins, June 1978\n\nPart 2: Burton Award project 1978-1979 was administered by the RSA in conjunction\n with the University of Bath. Research was undertaken by Jay Doblin and\n focussed on what should be done to improve the standard of buying and thereby\n design, particularly in education and training. Administrative correspondence.\n