Design Council Slide Collection images in demand

This year has been a busy one in terms of the number of requests to use images from the Design Council Slide Collection in various publications and exhibitions.  Most recently, the Victoria and Albert Museum requested use of this image in its new furniture gallery, which is due to open shortly.

Those Things childrens table, chair and stool in fibreboard, designed by Peter Murdoch and made by Perspective Designs Ltd. Winner of a Design Council Award in 1968.

Indeed, the V & A has been a major user of the Design Council collection this year.  It's main summer show, British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age was one of London's major cultural offerings during the Olympic Games, and the exhibition, together with its accompanying book, used several images from the collection.

A further book, Award Winning British Design 1957-88 was also published in conjunction with the exhibition, and this included over fifty images from the collection.









The Museum of Modern Art in New York used this image in its recent Century of the Child exhibition and related book

Installation view from the Design and Disability exhibition at the Design Centre, London in 1981.

and other recent licensees have included Shire Publications,which used four images (including the one below) in its 1950s Modern book by Susannah Walker.

Dining room with furniture by Kandya Ltd, c. 1952.