Press cuttings for the Eye for Industry Exhibition
Eye for Industry was an exhibition organised for Industry Year by the Royal Society of Arts in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Exhibition marked the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the RDIs by the Royal Society of Arts in 1936. It showed diverse achievements of British designers contrasting the talents of Eric Gill and Lord Snowdon "The Fathers of the Jet Engine," Frank Whittle the fabricator of English fantasy fashions, Zandra Rhodes, Eileen Gray, who's furniture was first produced in France in the 1930s and Sir Barnes Wallis who in 1925 built the R100 airship.
Royal Designers for IndustryArtists in Industry 1930-39 section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Artists in Industry 1930-39 and Designers At War 1940-46 sections of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Engineering Section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Environment and Entertainment section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Environment section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Fashion section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
General Design with Graphic Section behind, Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
General view of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Historic Section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
Production Design section of Eye For Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
RDI Portrait Panels at Eye for Industry Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum
The coincidence of the RDI's fifieth birthday celebration with Industry Year 1986 provided a unique opportunity to take a thoughtful look at some of the outstanding achievements of British Designers. \n\nThis booklet is a companion volume to the exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum from 26 November 1986- 1 February 1987. The book includes concise biographies of the RDI's and a selection of 100 revealing illustrations of their work.
Part of a set of slides from Helen Auty, 1999
Winner of an additonal Scholarship granted by the Drapers' Company