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The Design Section exists to promote the importance of design and encourages a high standard within it. The Design Section's governing body acts as an advisor to the RSA's Programme Committee, is a source of ideas for RSA future programme, reviews current design projects, and evaluates the quality of the RSA Programme work in design. \n\nDesign administers/administered the following projects and initiatives: Student Design Awards, successor of the Design Bursaries Competition; Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry; Bicentenary Medal; New Design for old/Design for Ageing Network; Young Designers into Industry Scheme; Medic Design Awards; Presidential Award for Design Management; and various other competitions such as the competition for a drinking fountain design and 'Youth looks at Britain' Poster Competition.

Correspondence relating to a joint venture between the Student Design Awards and the Design Council which aimed to incorporate Design Council strategies into the 1990's scheme. Includes minutes of a meeting held on 6 January 1992 between the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) the funding body, the Design Council and the RSA Steering Committee and a 'Report for DTI on RSA Student Design Awards 1991/92'.

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.

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

Administrative correspondence.

Established in 1985, the aim of the Young Designers into Industry scheme was to match the skills of top young designers with the needs of British industry. The scheme results from an initiative announced by John Butcher as part of the government's Strategy for Design launched in 1984. Through it, newly qualified designers are awarded 12 month assisted placements in selected industrial companies. The administration of the scheme was undertaken by the RSA while it was funded jointly by the Department of Trade and Industry and the industrial companies involved. \n\nAdministrative correspondence, minutes, progress reports and press releases.

Clean technologies lecture and Centre for sustainable design and Surrey Institute proposal to Canon UK about the development of the 'Sustainable World' theme within the RSA Student Design Awards.

Information taken originally from published reports of the scheme were weeded from this file.\n\nFile consists of background information on the origins of the scheme and a list of the scheme's highlights.

In 1888 The National Association for the Advancement of Arts and its Application to Industry was founded for the purpose of holding an Annual Congress for the reading of papers on the application of Art to Industry. In 1906 it was decided to devote existing funds to an open Studentship for the promotion and encouragement of art. In 1928 the Trustees approached the Society with a view to the Trusteeship being taken over by the Society. Subsequently an Art Congress Studentship of the value of £50 was offered in connection with the Industrial Designs Competition of 1928.\n\nThree Trust Deeds or Deeds of Appointment. The first, dated 1 June 1912, concerns the appointment of a new Trustee; the second, dated 2 August 1906 concerns the foundation of 'The Art Congress Studentship'; and the last, dated 1 May 1928, concerns the appointment of the RSA as Trustees.

Includes correspondence with Alyson Leslie and winners of the award, correspondence about arranging details of the award presentation, discussion on who should win the award, and guidelines and criteria for judging the competition.

The Jacobs Memorial Award Certificate was given in memory of Ian Jacobs who was the Assistant Secretary responsible for the work of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry and the running of the RSA Design Bursaries Competition. It was given annually to the student who submitted the best study tour report both in terms of content and presentation. The award was judged by the Master of the RDI Faculty. \n\nIncludes correspondence about setting up a fund in memory of Jacobs, receipts of donations sent by the RDIs, and correspondence about the setting up of the Award. Includes correspondence with award winners, with Mrs Jacobs, and with the award judges, correspondence about printing an award certificate and, copies of sample award certificate.

Won the 1979/80 Travel Grant for Designers in the Textile Industry worth £500. Presented by the Worshipful Company of Weavers in conjunction with the RSA. Travelled to Japan in March/April 1981. Includes photographs.

Won the Dorma Attachment Award worth £600 and a Travel Award worth £300 in the 'Home Furnishing' section. Attachment was with Dorma. Photocopy of original report.

Was part of a team. Won a Travel Award worth £666 in the 'Design for Leisure' section. Travelled to Japan. Photocopy of original report.

Won the Bally Travel Award worth £1000 in the 'Footwear' section. Travelled to Japan in 1986. Winner of the Jacobs Memorial Award Certificate. Photocopy of original report.

Won the John Lewis Attachment Award worth £2250 in the 'Furnishing Textiles' section. Spent six months at Cavendish Textile Studio from July 1984-January 1985. Photocopy of original report.

Won a Post Office Travel Award worth £750 in the 'Office and Business Equipment' section. Travelled to America from 17 August - 21 September 1985. Photocopy of original report.

Won the Walter Wheeler Award worth £1500. Spent two months working with Pitney Bowes Ltd in their Corporate Industrial Design Department in Connecticut followed by one month travel in America. Photocopy of original report.