14 Oct 2009

Design Council image archive goes online!

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A selection of Marianne Straub's textile designs, used on British Railways in the 1960s

The Design Council's slide collection has been launched online as a database featuring 4,000 images of British design from the 1940s to the 1990s.

The Design Council – the national strategic body for UK design established in 1944 – owns thousands of images of a vast array of products (tableware, furniture, lighting etc), engineering components and machinery, as well photography that relates to architectural projects, interior design, graphics and corporate identity.

The Design Council slide collection can be viewed at vads.ac.uk/collections/DCSC.html, while all of the VADS collections are housed at vads.ac.uk.

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