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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

Applied Art Work

Applied Art Work.

On the subject of the teaching of industrial design, we are of opinion that the Science and Art Department may with advantage depart from their principle, as at first laid down, of granting encouragement to design only so far as to award grants for specimens of applied art-workmanship in the materials themselves, as a test of the applicability of the design and as a reward for success in overcoming the technical difficulties of the manufacture.

It seems scarcely fair that well executed artwork by a student, say a richly chased piece of silver plate, Should obtain only the same recompense as the design for the same pbject on paper. We are aware that special vigilance would in this case be required in order to prevent the use of such rewards for trade or for other than educational purposes.

It appears from the evidence, with which we include a remarkable letter from M. Willms, the emiuent designer of Birmingham, that it would be well if persons practically acquainted with the application of design to industrial manufactures were more extensively consulted in the award of prizes for industrial design. We are aware that this is now done in some measure, but, however emiuent may be the gentlemen whom the department has been in the habit of consulting, it is unlikely, it is unlikely that the small number of these should be sufficently familiar with the vast varieties of applications to have the special knowledge requiste for judges in the large number of trades in which design forms an important element.