Note paper

Classification(s):
Ephemera
Date: 22 October 1975
Dimensions:
210 × 148 mm (21 × 14.8 cm)
Medium: Paper
Object number: IA_W4F_1_D
Place of Production:London, England
Title:Wood 4F (M)
DescriptionInner London Education Authority (ILEA) Circulating Design Scheme note paper. The note paper records items which are missing from individual display cases. This note paper relates to the display group Wood 4F.

Schools taking part in the Circulating Design Scheme received a reference photograph and a record card for each individual case. Schools could identify missing exhibits by cross-referencing with this material.

This note paper is signed and dated 22 October 1975.

ProvenanceThis item was used in the administration and management of the Inner London Education Authority’s (ILEA) ‘Circulating Design Scheme’.

The Circulating Design Scheme was instigated by the London Country Council (later the Greater London Council) and the Council of Industrial Design (COID). The Scheme’s original purpose was concerned with the teaching and dissemination of modern, ‘good design’ using a collection of art, design and craft-based objects.

The collection was established in 1951/52 as the ‘Experiment in Design Appreciation’, and later renamed the ‘Circulating Design Scheme’.

The Circulating Design Scheme lent boxed showcases to London schools. The showcases contained handling objects, material samples and interpretation on a specific subject.

Schools taking part in the Circulating Design Scheme received a reference photograph and a record card for each individual display case. Reference photographs were used as a visual inventory, allowing the contents of each display to be checked. Record cards capture tour dates and locations, object lists (including stock numbers and descriptions) and supplier information. They were used to transcribe details of the tour programme and record key exhibit information. These materials form a smaller body of archive material which enrich understandings of the objects in the collection, and the history of the Scheme itself.

COID withdrew its involvement in the Scheme in 1957. After which time, it was managed exclusively by the London County Council from 1957-1963.

After the administrative restructuring of London authorities, the Scheme was jointly managed by the Greater London Council and the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) from 1963 – 1976.

The Scheme was operational until 1976 when the collections were withdrawn from circulation. ILEA was abolished in the late 1980s and the collection was donated to Camberwell College of Arts in 1989/90.

ILEA was responsible for secondary and tertiary education in the inner London boroughs, this included Camberwell.