BRITISH INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND President of the Sofciety of Industrial Artists, and a practising designer, Mr Milner Gray is visiting New Zealand and will arrive in Christchurch shortly. Mr Gray, at the invitation oi the British Council, will try to interest manufacturers and designers in what is being done in Britain to organise industrial design resources and to improve the standard of the design of manufactured goods. Mr Gray will also be furthering one of the aims of the British Council—the spreading of knowledge of British institutions. Mr Gray was principal of the Sir John Cass School of Art from 1937 to 1940, and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmith’s College, London University, from 1932 to 1940. He was Board of Trade representative on the governing body of the Central School ot Art in 1945. During the last war he was head of the exhibitions branch of the Ministry of Information. Last year he was chief designer of the “Design for Work” exhibition at the Royal Academy, London.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25767, 31 March 1949, Page 3
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