Records of the Design School

Correspondence and administrative papers relating to the following courses and departments: MA Design, Batchelor Design, Product Design Engineering, Silversmithing and Jewelry, MPhil Design Theory, Visual Communications and First Year Design. Also includes academic plans and CNAA working papers, correspondence with GSA Enterprises, promotional material, student handbook drafts, material relating to Design exhibitions and the correspondence, administrative papers and working files of Dugald Cameron (Head of Design School 1990) and Michael Healey (Head of Design School 1994/95-1996/97).

Committee papers held within this department - Design Board of Studies, Design Course Evaluation Committee, Design Course/Joint Course/Curriculum Committee, Design Course Examination Committee, Design School Research Committee, Design Student/Staff Consultive Committee.

At the beginning of the twentieth century the School was organised into four departments: Architecture; Drawing & Painting; Design and Decorative Art; Modelling. Following restructuring, the School of Design was established and the first Head of Design, G.W. Lennox Paterson (Head of Department: Design 1975/76 - 1978/79), was appointed in 1975. In 1987 a joint BEng course in Product Design Engineering with the University of Glasgow was established and the Graphic Design, Illustration & Photography department became Visual Communication in 1998. In 1999 the Textiles department unified the previously separated departments of Printed and Knitted and Embroidered and Woven textiles.

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