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Upon the recommendation of this committee there are now being awarded
each year to graduates of Canadian schools of engineering and architecture,
a number of post-graduate scholarships in industrial design. These have been
made possible by an annual grant provided through the Board of Trustees
of the National Gallery of Canada and administered by the National Research
Council of Canada.
In the years to come, when practically every product in use will be re-
designed, it seems obvious that Canada must provide a full education for the
designer which will encompass art, technology and science.
As a tentative step, three university schools of architecture, Toronto,
Manitoba and British Columbia, are providing a few practical and theoretical
studies in product design for students in their third-year courses. Similar
studies, although not on a university basis, are now being offered as a design
course in the Ontario College of Art.
Canadian schools have been encouraged by manufacturers also. From
industry have come some of the experienced men to act as part-time demon-
strators and lecturers. From industry, too, will come some of the financial
aid. Yet, the financing of such courses is not a major barrier. What is required,
rather, is the grouping of studies already given in Canadian universities, in
an integrated course. By this means the student who desires to become a
product designer may obtain from such a course that imaginative understand-
ing and training which will enable him to think creatively and to act effectively
in co-operation with executives, engineers and research workers in the indus-
trial field.
Here is the goal which this country must set for herself if Canadian manu-
facturing is to receive the designing services it deserves.
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