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Design Review: Volume 4, Issue 2 (September-May 1951-52)

Design Review — To the Readers of Design Review:

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Design Review
To the Readers of Design Review:

Producing a magazine such as Design Review on a voluntary basis is a difficult undertaking at any time. To-day, with ever-soaring prices in the printing industry, it is impossible to meet the costs of a quality production out of ordinary revenue. Last year Design Review reached the stage where, unless some outside help were found, it could not carry on. We are happy to announce that the Internal Affairs Department has seen fit to grant Design Review a sum which ensures continued production.

Until this decision had been announced, the editors were unable to proceed with the publication of this number. This explains its lateness—notification of the grant was received only recently. Hereafter publication. will be at regular two-monthly intervals. The fact of a grant is encouraging, for it indicates official recognition that Design Review has more than local significance. We hope for a wider public acceptance of this confidence.

Your Help, Please

Now, please, if you are one of those people who think good design is important, and that its message should be propagated, you can help to contribute to this cause by helping Design Review. Ten shillings is little for one year's subscription, and you must know people who would willingly pay this for what we have to offer. Remember that the people who run Design Review have other jobs by which they live—that their work for this magazine is a labour of love. In fact, they bear the losses out of their own pockets. So if you help in this way you are helping something that should be worth keeping.

In an effort to save the Arts Year Book from extinction, the New Zealand Association of Art Societies recently convened a meeting of representatives of a number of societies and special interests which are likely to support its continuation. This initial meeting was held in Wellington, and it is hoped that it will lead to a co-ordinated effort throughout New Zealand.

The main problems are to harness the widespread willingness and enthusiasm for the Year Book, and to find the money to meet production losses. Though the Department of Internal Affairs has indicated it will subsidise it by E250, a further E500 at least would be needed. Who, then, is going to pay, and who is to accept the responsibility of production? These are problems that have yet to be solved, and it is hoped that all persons interested will do what they can to help.

The Editor of Design Review strongly the continuation of the Year Book.