Design in Everyday Things : BBC Broadcast Talks booklet 1190 : 1937 : cover design by Raymond McGrath
The BBC were, from early days, enthusiastic publishers, and this is typical of their output in the 1930s when numerous such booklets that supported radio broadcasts were issued - mostly on 'educational' subjects that were for 'regular' listeners and not just the separate schools educational broadcasts, and they included illustrative materials that supported the talks and discussions.
This was a series of 12 weekly broadcasts from October to December 1937 that covered what was a keen topic of the day - industrial design and its application to 'things around' you. The talks covered topics such as the home, its fittings and fixtures, architecture, town and country planning. The talks were by Anthony Bertram and the cover is by Raymond McGrath. B.Arch, ARIBA. McGrath was Australian born and went on, from 1940, to a long and distinguished career in architecture and design in Éire.
By the late 1930s the BBC commissioned some excellent designers including typography to make these booklets themselves 'fit for purpose' to use the phrase of Frank Pick, deputy chairman of London Transport at the time and who had been a long term proponent of such design issues along with the Design & Industries Association.
Design in Everyday Things : BBC Broadcast Talks booklet 1190 : 1937 : cover design by Raymond McGrath
The BBC were, from early days, enthusiastic publishers, and this is typical of their output in the 1930s when numerous such booklets that supported radio broadcasts were issued - mostly on 'educational' subjects that were for 'regular' listeners and not just the separate schools educational broadcasts, and they included illustrative materials that supported the talks and discussions.
This was a series of 12 weekly broadcasts from October to December 1937 that covered what was a keen topic of the day - industrial design and its application to 'things around' you. The talks covered topics such as the home, its fittings and fixtures, architecture, town and country planning. The talks were by Anthony Bertram and the cover is by Raymond McGrath. B.Arch, ARIBA. McGrath was Australian born and went on, from 1940, to a long and distinguished career in architecture and design in Éire.
By the late 1930s the BBC commissioned some excellent designers including typography to make these booklets themselves 'fit for purpose' to use the phrase of Frank Pick, deputy chairman of London Transport at the time and who had been a long term proponent of such design issues along with the Design & Industries Association.