ART CAN AID INDUSTRY

IN THE COURSE of a recent lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, Mr Laurence Irving, Master of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry, touched on the subject of training for industrial design in the broader context of a serious division which, in his view, exists between art and industry. He put it that, while science requires ever higher standards of accuracy from industry, in art there is toleration and even encouragement of imperfect execution.