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What kind of art education?
Designs by students of the Royal
College of Art:
Top left, collapsible motor scooter
(Nicholas Jensen); centre, minimal car
(Stuart Smith); right, polypropylene
measuring cup (Stuart Smith)
Centre left, bass guitar (Leslie
Hammond);
right, 6 in. reflecting telescope (Peter
Doodson)
Bottom left, planimeter (Leslie
Hammond)
design or medicine, need to be in contact with the fine sculpture schools. It is different with craft-based industry.
arts because life without the fine arts is life without It is useful for textile designers to be closely involved with
civilization. But I don't think that this contact need painters, but it is important to distinguish between the
necessarily be established within the school. It must be needs of craft-based design and that industrial design
part of organized education, but I don't think that which is geared to the engineering industries. There are
physical proximity is any longer of any real importance. fundamental differences which necessitate a different
I can't see that much is gained from the close traditional kind of education and possibly a different place to be
alliance of industrial design schools and the painting and educated in. q
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