Some Views of a Designer

JSGT 1935 V19 T010-T017

 The problems of the industrial designer are different from those of the artist and craftsman. The designer should realise the importance of the sales factor. There are two types of designer - the staff and the freelance. The choice of designer depends upon the directors, who must have some understanding of design, and there must be team work between all sections of the business. The continued education of designers, craftsmen, salesmen, etc. is necessary. The fetish of “Crystal” as a material blinds makers to the importance of good design. The result is mediocrity and sameness in the design of English cut glass. Hand-craft is debased to mass-production which should be developed by machinery. Practical experiments should be encouraged. The invention of now methods will result in new designs. Restraint and order are necessary in the use of decoration.

Keith  D. P. Murray