Australian Society of Designers for Industry

Also known as ASDI, SDI
  • Designer
The first professional design organisation begins in 1947-48 when design professionals Grant Featherston; fabric designer and design retailer Frances Burke; graphic specialist R. Haughton James; industrial designer Frederick Ward; industrial designer Charles Furey; graphic designer Max Forbes and the designers Selwyn Coffey, Scorgie Anderson, I.M. (Max) Hutchinson, W. Falconer Green and Ron Rosenfeldt met to form the Society.

The history of the Australian Society of Designers for Industry (ASDI, also SDI), the nation’s first professional design organisation, begins in 1947-48 when a group of design professionals including furniture designer Grant Featherston (1922-1995); fabric designer and design retailer Frances Burke (1907-1995); graphic specialist R. Haughton James (1906-85); industrial designer Frederick Ward (1899-1988); industrial designer Charles Furey (b.1915?); graphic designer Max Forbes (1923-90) and the designers Selwyn Coffey, Scorgie Anderson, I.M. (Max) Hutchinson, W. Falconer Green and Ron Rosenfeldt (b.1919) met in Melbourne to form the Society of Designers for Industry. In 1950, graphic designer Alistair Morrison, designer/architect Derek Wrigley and architect Arthur Baldwinson and others formed a New South Wales Chapter of the SDI

Writers:

Michael Bogle
Date written:
2018
Last updated:
2018