Edward Pond

Edward Pond trained at Dagenham Art School and then at the RCA from 1955-1958. He was chief designer at Bernard Wardle's Everflex works in wales from 1958. He won a Council of Industrial Design, Design of the Year Award in the first year. Between 1962-65 he was design director at the parent company Bernard Wardle Fabrics in Stockport. From 1965 he set up the Central Studio at the Wallpaper Manufacturers where he was design director. Later he became a director of Polycell, for whom he set up Polypops Products and Paperchase.
He set up Edward Pond Associates as design consultants, resulting in visits to USA, South Africa, Zimbabwe, South Korea and most European countries. For two years from 1981he was President of the Chartered Society of Designers and later Chairman of the Design and Industries Association.