Sound and Vision by Peter E M Sharp, a Design Centre publication, 1967
The Design Centre, part of the Council for Industrial Design, was a centre in London's Haymarket that was open to the public from 1956 until 1998. It was part of the work of the Design Council that had been set up in 1944 as the Council for Industrial Design, part of a government backed policy to improve the standard of design in the UK. Part of its public education programme included publications (such as the excellent "Design magazine produced from 1949 until 1999) that helped bring to consumers attention what was considered key exemplars of good industrial and product design and what was available that matched such standards, including products that featured in the Council's "Design Index". This is one of a series of late 1960s publications on mostly household subjects such as sound and vision. It includes TV, radio, sound recording and reproduction equipment and explains much jargon as, for example, television moved from 405 lines to 625 lines of definition and black & white to colour. The author was P E M Sharp and the book was designed by Broom Lynne MSIA. The cover photograph, of a hip suburban couple, is by Dennis Hooker and features a Ferrograph 631 tape recorder, a Relosound RB microphone, a Murphy V197U black and white television as well as a Murphy turntable and an HMV FM/AM radio set.
The Design Council still exists but one seldom if ever hears about them - such an educational and information role seems to withered in modern times.
Sound and Vision by Peter E M Sharp, a Design Centre publication, 1967
The Design Centre, part of the Council for Industrial Design, was a centre in London's Haymarket that was open to the public from 1956 until 1998. It was part of the work of the Design Council that had been set up in 1944 as the Council for Industrial Design, part of a government backed policy to improve the standard of design in the UK. Part of its public education programme included publications (such as the excellent "Design magazine produced from 1949 until 1999) that helped bring to consumers attention what was considered key exemplars of good industrial and product design and what was available that matched such standards, including products that featured in the Council's "Design Index". This is one of a series of late 1960s publications on mostly household subjects such as sound and vision. It includes TV, radio, sound recording and reproduction equipment and explains much jargon as, for example, television moved from 405 lines to 625 lines of definition and black & white to colour. The author was P E M Sharp and the book was designed by Broom Lynne MSIA. The cover photograph, of a hip suburban couple, is by Dennis Hooker and features a Ferrograph 631 tape recorder, a Relosound RB microphone, a Murphy V197U black and white television as well as a Murphy turntable and an HMV FM/AM radio set.
The Design Council still exists but one seldom if ever hears about them - such an educational and information role seems to withered in modern times.