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Design Research Unit 1942 - 72: the British post-war design powerhouse

PUBLISHED 21 Oct 2010 - 12:01pm

AUTHOR: William Shaw

This weekend is the last chance to see Design Research Unit 1942 - 72 at the Cubitt Gallery in North London, an exhibition about the practice that created the identity for British Rail, and as architects, worked on the 1951 Festival of Britain. It's great to see this celebration of Britain's first modern group design practice – more so because the original ideas behind DRU are seem so relevant today. As Justin McGuirk pointed out in this recent article, the Design Research Unit was born of a previous age of austerity, and tackled that austerity with a sense of pull-together optimism... More

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