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The Design Council began on 19 December 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design (COID), founded by Hugh Dalton, President of the Board of Trade in the wartime Government. [19] Its objective was 'to promote by all practicable means the improvement of design in the products of British industry'.
Shortly before the Great War there was a growing awareness, among British designers, of the extent to which German industrial design had taken the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement (that had originated with William Morris and others in Britain in the late 19th century) and had successfully moved these into the age of mass, mechanised, production.
Its design review panel consisted of around 40 expert advisors drawn from England's architectural, built environment and creative community. CABE was known as a 'non-statutory consultee' in the planning process, meaning that planners and others should heed CABE's advice when making decisions, but were not obliged to do so.
Free-form biomorphic shapes also appear as a recurring theme in Atomic Age design. British designers at the Council of Industrial Design (CoID) produced fabrics in the early 1950s that showed "skeletal plant forms, drawn in a delicate, spidery graphic form", reflecting x-ray technology that was becoming more widespread and familiar in pop culture.
She received the Council of Industrial Design's (CoID) ‘Design of the Year’ award twice, the first time for a screen painted wallpaper she did for The Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd (WPM), and a year later for the design ‘Phantom Rose’ for the Palladio Scheme. [1] She also contributed to Palladio with her skeletal leaf pattern. [1]
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Tibor Reich ATI [clarification needed] FSIA, [clarification needed] FRSA (1 October 1916 – 3 February 1996) was a British textile designer.His company, Tibor Ltd., produced designs featured in projects including the Festival of Britain, Concorde, HMY Britannia, Coventry Cathedral, Clarence House and the Queen Elizabeth 2.