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Turner Prize 2011 nominee Martin Boyce will be among the visitors to a new exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, which showcases work carried out by a pioneering industrial design group.
The exhibition, 'Design Research Unit: 1942-7' opens at DJCAD's Cooper Gallery on Saturday, 19th November. It explores how industrial design developed in the UK, based on new research into the eponymous unit, who were responsible for some of the most important design produced in post-war Britain.
The DRU was one of the first generation of British design consultancies, and brought together expertise in architecture, graphics and industrial design. Formed in London in 1942, the DRU pioneered a model for group practice. By the 1970s it was one of the largest and most established design offices in Europe.
This exhibition is the first to map the history of the group and the currency of their designs. It identifies key examples of their work and documents an approach that was shaped by inter-war developments in artistic discourse and post war trends in industry and communication; in particular the accelerated demand for corporate design.
'Design Research Unit: 1942-72' is a Cubitt Gallery touring exhibition, and Dundee is the only location in Scotland chosen to present it. Curator Michelle Cotton will discuss the significance of the exhibition at a Preview Night on 19th November, while Scottish Turner nominee Martin Boyce, whose atmospheric, sculptural art is inspired by modernist design history, will talk about the DRU's influence on 1st December."
Read more at:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/news/2011/11/design-research/
