Gerard Herbst b. 1 January 1911

Also known as Gerhard Herbst
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Designer (Theatre / Film Designer)
Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In the 1950s, Herbst made three films on design: `Portraits in Fabric', (1950); `Language of Design', (1950); `Fabrics in Motion', (1951). In 1967, the course also included Wilby Rackham as lecturer and three tutors. Herbst retired in 1975.
Tags: textile design, Industrial design, Design education, design film-maker
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Name
Gerard Herbst
Also known as Gerhard Herbst
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Designer (Theatre / Film Designer)
Other Occupation
  • design educator -
Tags:
textile design
Industrial design
Design education
design film-maker
Birth date
1 January 1911
Birth place
Germany
Death date
1 January 2011
Arrival
  • 1 January 1939
Training
  • Diploma, Industrie und Handels Kammer, Germany, - Germany

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References [<ExternalResource: Dani Valent. 'Gerard Herbst'.Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, 5 May 2007, p.55. (illust.)>, <ExternalResource: "Ideas in the making." Architecture Today, November 1967, p.46.>, <ExternalResource: Gerard Herbst (biographical summary) Archive, textile design, Gerard Herbst and Prestige Limited, Melbourne, Victoria, 1940-1995 >, <ExternalResource: Career summary in Tracey Sernack-Chee Quee, Claudio Alcorso and Post-War Textile Culture in Australia, UTS PhD Thesis, 2020.>, <ExternalResource: Films `Portraits in Fabric', (1950); `Language of Design', (1950); `Fabrics in Motion', (1951) Herbst was director, producer/writer Geoffrey Thompson >] [<ExternalResource: Dani Valent. 'Gerard Herbst'.Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, 5 May 2007, p.55. (illust.)>, <ExternalResource: "Ideas in the making." Architecture Today, November 1967, p.46.>, <ExternalResource: Gerard Herbst (biographical summary) Archive, textile design, Gerard Herbst and Prestige Limited, Melbourne, Victoria, 1940-1995 >, <ExternalResource: Career summary in Tracey Sernack-Chee Quee, Claudio Alcorso and Post-War Textile Culture in Australia, UTS PhD Thesis, 2020.>]