Max Forbes

  • Designer
Forbes is identified as a designer for Rodriquez Fabrics, Melbourne, illustrated in Colin Barrie, Design, Arts in Australia series, Longmans, 1962. His package design work is illustrated in R. Haughton James, The Arts in Australia series, "Commercial Art", Longmans, 1963. He was also active in furniture design winning a 1st prize for dining furniture in the Melbourne Ideal Home Show in 1955.
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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Exhibition of product design and furnishings planned and designed by R. Haughton James and Max Forbes and held in Melbourne in 1949. The design exhibition was held at the same time of the “House of Tomorrow” exhibition.

“What went into the exhibition.”
The Argus, Friday 21 October 1949, page 13
“The central display-“Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow” occupies a space
of 165,000 cubic feet.

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Industrial design
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Exhibition of product design and furnishings planned and designed by R. Haughton James and Max Forbes and held in Melbourne in 1949.

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