Biographical summary by Geoff Fitzpatrick (2015)
Ted has had a long and distinguished career in design and design education, with significant achievements during his last sixty years involvement with the DIA. IN 1956 Ted was appointed the first Secretary of the Society of Designers for Industry ( Ron Rosenfeldt was the then President), which was the forerunner of the Industrial Design Institute of Australia, later to become the Design Institute of Australia. From 1954 to 1969 he was a director and part owner in Stuart Furniture, South Yarra. From 1969 to 1972 he was Head of Department of Art & Design, Prahran College of Advanced Education, and from 1973 to 1974 he was State Director, Victoria, of the Industrial Design Council of Australia. In 1974 to 1979 he was Principal Lecturer, Caulfield Institute of Technology, and during this period he was seconded to the Department of Education, Canberra, as Acting Director, Canberra School of Art (1976-1977). Ted finally retired in 1984 as Head of Department of Graphic design, Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University) and has gone onto contribute to advisory boards and councils in the field of education in Victoria. Ted is currently a Fellow of the DIA.
Career summary from Prahran School of Art and Design (1972). Prospectus. Prahran College of Technology, 142 High Street, Prahran, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3181, p.17.
“EDWARD WORSLEY is Head of the School of Art and Design. He came to the college with an extensive background in Industrial Design, and the business world. Mr. Worsley studied Industrial Design at [RMIT] and entered the plastics industry as a designer. He also worked on some of the earliest Australian television designs, and continued this practice in Britain in the early 1950’s, mingling this design specialty with radio and product design. He designed exhibition displays for British and Continental contractors, and travelled extensively in Europe at this time. On returning to Australia Edmond Worsley became very active in the progress of the Society of Designers for Industry, and its formation into the Industrial Design Institute of Australia. He has also worked on various committees for the Industrial Design Council of Australia. He established a consultant design practice, working especially in furniture and office planning. Edmond Worsley is a director of a furniture company involved in specialised manufacturing and retailing, and was recently commissioned to complete a survey of overseas trends in merchandising for the industry. He is a tireless innovator, and functions far in the future with his planning for the School of Art and Design.”
- Writers:
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Michael Bogle
- Date written:
- 2016
- Last updated:
- 2016
