Design and Industries Association of Australia (DIAA)

Also known as Design and Industries Association (DIA)
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In 1940, the Design and Industries Association (DIA), was announced in Sydney. Its earliest members included Sydney Ure Smith (President), R. Haughton James (Secretary), Russell Roberts (Treasurer), William Knight, Douglas Annand, Frank Medworth, Gilbert Russell and Geoffrey Collings and the architect Arthur Baldwinson. This organisation faltered, then failed under the pressure of the 1939-45 War.

Citations

  • Ron Rosenfeldt. “The Establishment of the Society of Designers for Industry and its Development into the Industrial Design Institute of Australia.”

    http://www.dia.org.au/

  • “Australian Designs Ignored. New Association.” Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 1940, p.12