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  • Description:  NEWS COURSES Three days in May A three-day conference on Design Engineering and Management i s to be held by the Production Engineering Research Association at Melton Mowbray from May 18-20. The conference, which is intended for managers and designers, will aim at raising productivity and product quality by improving all aspects of design and the management of design activities. Details are available from the conference organiser, PERA, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Plastic reinforcements A one-day conference on research projects in reinforced plastics is being held by the Plastics Institute at the Connaught Rooms, London WC2, on March 24. The purpose of the conference is to encourage the exchange of information on proposed work between authorities engaged on or contemplating research. The chairman of the conference will be B. T. Boswell, of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment. Details are available from the Plastics Institute, 6 Mandeville Place, London W1. PUBLICATIONS New Pamphlets Design Bulletin 3 Part 6: Service Cores in High Flats (Cold Water Services) is published by HMSO for the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, price 6s. Engineering Design with Natural Rubber, a technical bulletin intended for engineers, engineering teachers and students, is published by the Natural Rubber Producers' Research Association, and is available on request. The sixth annual Economic Review for the Furniture Industry, published by the Furniture Development Council, contains a general economic survey of the furniture industry in 196364, a survey of the domestic furniture industry 1954-1962, and an article on retail price maintenance and its effect on the industry. The review is available, price £1, from the FDC, Maxwell Road, Stevenage, Herts. New cities The fifth issue of Archigram, the magazine "for new ideas in architecture", examines the concept of the metropolis and illustrates some possible forms of the city of the future, including the "molehill", the city as a single building, the computer city, the walking city and the underwater city. Archigram 5 is edited by Peter Cook and is continued on page 73 published from 59 Aberdare Gardens, ondon NW6, price 2s. Contracting in An enlarged catalogue of contract goods listed in 'Design Index' is to e published by the ColD this autumn. The new catalogue, Contract Catalogue from Design Index 1966/​67, will cover furniture, lighting fittings and sanitary appliances and will contain over 300 information sheets (A4 size), each illustrating one product or range of products and giving specification, dimensions, designer, manufacturer and, where available, retail price. The catalogue will be distributed free to over 10,000 contract buyers and will also be sent to British Government trading posts abroad where :here is likely to be a market for contract products from Britain. Manufacturers who have suitable products listed in 'Design index' and would like them included in the contract catalogue should contact Stanley Enright, ColD, 28 Haymarket, London SW1. Coming clean The recently published Hospital Building Note No 25: Laundry gives guidance on the design of laundries dealing with between 45,000 and 110,000 articles a week. It recommends complete separation of the soiled side of the laundry from the remainder by the provision of a mezzanine floor or barrier partition, or both, and gives suggested layouts for laundries using the latesttypes of machinery. The Note is published by HMSO, price 3s 6d. Standard information New standards published recently by the British Standards Institution include BS 3831: Vitreous Enamel Finishes for Domestic and Catering Appliances, and the first part of a comprehensive glossary of terms relating to builders' hardware, BS 3827 Part 1: Locks (including Locks and Latches in One Case). A revision of BS 381C has been published under the title Colours for Specific Purposes, and supersedes both the earlier edition of this standard and BS987C: Camouflage Colours. Three new sections have been added to Part 3 of BS 3178: Playground Equipment for Parks to cover swings, rocking boats and rocking horses. Details and prices of all these publications can be obtained from the BSI Sales Branch, 2 Park Street, London W1. Graphic journalism Over 300 journals (from 30 countries) concerned with graphic design and related subjects are listed in a catalogue published by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations. The catalogue costs £1 (or $2.50) and can be obtained from ICOGRADA, 9 Clifford Street, London W1. COMPETITION Play piece The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers of the City of London is again offering a Radford Design Award to a young designer who intends to make his career as a furniture designer. Candidates for the award, which has a maximum value of £400, should be between 20 and 30 years old and are required to submit working drawings of a piece of furniture designed within the past two years, and a new design for a piece of nursery or kindergarten furniture. The closing date for entry is April 30, and details are available from the director-general, City and Guilds of London Institute, 76 Portland Place, London W1. Top cast First prize of £200 in the 1964 Design for Die Casting competition was shared between L. A. Catt of Flash Fastners Ltd and W. H. Russ of N. V. Appleton Ltd. who are respectively the die caster and designer of a new metal framed reversible window combined with a louvre. The judges were H. K. Barton, J. Merrick and Stefan Buzas, and the competition was organised by the Zinc Development Association. Agricultural plan The subject for the 1965 European Home international architectural and technical competition is a design for a farm or small-holding engaged in agriculture or cattle breeding. Competitors, who must be qualified architects or civil engineers, are advised to use prefabricated elements in their design of dimensions that will conform with the requirements of mass production techniques. The competition is organised by the Ghent International Fair. The closing date for entry is April 151965, and details are available from the competition secretariat, Ghent International Fair, Palais des Floralies, Ghent, Belgium. Awards for posters Entries for the 1964/​65 British Poster Design Awards sponsored by the ColD will be accepted from April 1-30. To be eligible for entry, posters must have been displayed between April 1 1964 and March 31 1965. They may be entered by the advertiser, the advertising agency, the designer or the printer. There will be classes for double crown to four sheet size, for 16 sheet to 48 sheet, and for bus and van posters of double crown size and above. Judges will be: Christopher Bradshaw, Royston Cooper, E. H. Drake, Bob Gill, James Holland, Reginald Mount, Stanhope Shelton and C. L. Smith. Entry forms and full details available from the ColD, 28 Haymarket, London SW1 (envelopes should be marked "Poster Competition"). NAMES AND CHANGES On the move Allied Industrial Designers Ltd has set up a new design company in Norway. Paul Conti has joined Design and Contract Associates (London) Ltd. Hille of London (Midlands) Ltd has moved from the first floor to the ground and basement floors at 24 Albert Street, Birmingham. James Holland has set up a practice as consultant graphic designer at 14 Manette Street, London W1. Inter-Building Design Group has moved offices to 9 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent. Who's doing what Alec Davis Designers Ltd is designing house styles for Fletcher and Stewart Ltd. Harcostar Ltd and a London borough. Ruari McLean has been appointed consultant typographical designer to Shell Chemical Co Ltd. Cal Swann has taken up an appointment as head of graphic design at Plymouth College of Art. Leonard Wingfield has been retained as consultant industrial designer by Colt Ventilation and Heating Ltd. ADDENDA International product review, 193/​40: the PRO 411 executive intercom was designed by Per Heribertson. International product review, 193/​41: The office table made by De Cirkel is in fact designed by Friso Kramer, and is supplied in various colours. New products, 192/​67: Mazak is a zinc alloy containing aluminium and magnesium. Design analysis: Typeface 186/​71: Examples 41 and 42 were produced in the studio of Adrian Frutiger, and not by Fridolin Muller. Designers and manufacturers The index of designers and manufacturers in this issue appears on page 100.
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