Design course

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32702, 3 September 1971, Page 4

Design course

About 35 fifth and .sixth form pupils from Canterbury schools are attending a course in industrial design this week. The course is one of about three held in the four main centres each year by the New Zealand Industrial Design Council. A spokesman for the council (Mr P. C. Harlen) said that the course was to show students thinking of making a career in industrial design the kind of work they would be doing. Each student would complete a project during the week, either on the redesigning of the human body, designing a place for one person to live for a year, equipment to assist in the eating of food in a domestic situation, or designing a machine with d number of specified devices. The class includes films and lectures by two university lecturers in design, a third-year industrial design student and a number of local industrial designers who will address the class on different types of design—including product, graphic, exhibition, interior, architectural and advertising. , „ . The Industrial Design Council was set up in 1966, to advise industry of standard production designs, and to promote interest in indus- < trial design. Industrial design was not concerned only with beautifi- ’ cation but with producing the most efficient and bestlooking article for the cheapest price, said Mr Harlen.