Won the Design Council Travel Award of £2500 in the 'Gerontechnology' section. Travelled to America, Canada and Europe.
Won a Travel Award worth £1000 under the the 'Aircraft Trolley' brief in the 'Transport' sector. Travelled in Europe. Includes a letter to the RSA and the report.
Includes correspondence with award winners, with Harold and Anne Jacobs, and with the award judges, correspondence with Alan Kitching RDI about designing an award certificate, copies of the completed award certificate, and copies of invitations to the award ceremony.
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 a Travel Award worth £500 under the the 'Catwalk Jewellery' brief in the 'Fasion Jewellery' section. Travelled to Mexico.
In 1987 an anonymous donor gave the Society £32,000 to establish a Jacqueline du Pré award to be offered to a cellist of exceptional talent. The fund was later transferred to the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments\nIncludes correspondence and papers on setting up the award, its finance and administration, details of winners and notes on its transfer to a musical instrument fund
James Barry was born in 1741 and died in 1806. In 1777 Barry submitted a proposal to the Society to decorate the Great Room of its new premises. He offered to paint the whole room without fee, in return for canvas, paints and models. He began painting in April that year, and although he continued to alter the paintings until 1801, they were exhibited in 1783 and '84, with the proceeds going to Barry.\n\nBarry was his own publisher, and produced numerous works explaining the The Progress's symbolism, later editions of which contained appendices railing against his critics.\n\nIn 1782, Barry was elected to professor of painting at the Royal Academy, receiving a salary in return for six lectures a year. Barry used the position to engage with role of the artist in society, but went too far in putting forth his opinions and, together with his 1798 Letter to the Dilettanti Society's attacks on the state of arts patronage in England, angered the Academy was expelled in 1799. His was the Academy's only expulsion until Professor Brendan Neiland resigned in July 2004.\n\nThe Earl of Buchan came to Barry's aid after he lost his salary, paying expenses and moving him to a larger house so that he could finish his final painting, The Birth of Pandora. James Barry died in February 1806, and his body laid in state in the Society's Great Room, before being interred in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Third painting in the series entitled 'The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture' by James Barry, 1777-1783
Frontispiece to The Works of James Barry, 1809
Third painting in the series entitled 'The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture' by James Barry, 1777-1783.
numbered 70-113
James Barry produced many etchings and engravings of his works. It is believed that the numerous prints of the Great Room Paintings were presented to the Society by James Barry. It is unknown whether he also presented the prints of his other works.
Won a Estafette BV Attachment Award of £2500 in the 'Consumer Products' section. Worked with Estafette BV for fourteen weeks
Won a Travel Award worth £1500 and the Pitney Bowes Attachment Award in the 'Office/Business Equipment' section. Worked with Pitney Bowes' Design Department in Connecticut from 21 February - 17 April 1987 and then travelled in America from 18 April - 13 May 1987. Photocopy of original report.
Won a Silentnight Attachment Award worth £2000 under the the 'Domestic Storage' brief in the 'Furniture' sector. Worked with Silentnight Cabinets from 19 August - 25 October 1991.