The Stamp Advisory Committee (SAC) is a committee to advise on the design of British postage stamps .
16-603: The committee was originally established as an offshoot of the Council of Industrial Design in 1946. On 21 February 1968 a new Post Office appointed committee was set up and today the SAC advises the United Kingdom's Royal Mail on their stamp issuing policy. Royal Mail select the subject of upcoming stamp issues and appoint designers to draw up a variety of different possible design for each issue. The committee then review
32-444: A change of outlook in the production of stamps with which I was not in sympathy. .... I was afraid that the admission of pictorial stamps would lead to complete banality" Council of Industrial Design The Design Council , formerly the Council of Industrial Design , is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by royal charter . Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better". It
48-407: A network of Built Environment Experts (BEEs), a multidisciplinary team of 250 experts from “architecture, planning and infrastructure backgrounds, as well as academics, health specialists, and community engagement workers”. Design Council CABE, which is intended to operate as a self-sustaining business, was formed on 1 April 2011 with about 20 staff from the original CABE after it was merged with
64-656: A non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and became an independent registered charity, although it continued to receive grants from the department. It also officially merged with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) on the same day although Design Council CABE was incorporated four days earlier. In 2017, Design Council appointed Sarah Weir (OBE) as their CEO. Sir Gordon Russell, who
80-559: The Britain Can Make It exhibition of 1946. His 1947 successor Sir Gordon Russell established the organisational model for the next 40 years. Under Sir Paul Reilly the organisation changed its name to the Design Council in 1972. The Design Council was incorporated as a registered charity by royal charter in 1976, although it continued to operate as a non-departmental public body . In December 1994 it
96-497: The Built Environment (DC CABE, alternatively Design Council CABE, CABE at the Design Council, or simply CABE ), is one of Design Council's two subsidiaries. It supports communities, local authorities and developers involved in built environment projects by providing services in three areas: design review, customised expert support, and training and continued professional development (CPD). These services are supported by
112-585: The Design Centre was closed to the public. The Design Council continued to operate from the Design Centre until 1998. Between 1949 and 1999, the Design Council published Design ( ISSN 0011-9245 ), a “well-regarded magazine of its own” The journal ceased publication after the summer issue of 1999. The council has hosted the British Design Awards , with the 1987 logo rights co-owned with Manchester Metropolitan University . It
128-484: The Design Council. The BEE network was formed in 2012. The Design Council began on 19 December 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design (COID), founded by Hugh Dalton , President of the Board of Trade in the wartime Government. Its objective was 'to promote by all practicable means the improvement of design in the products of British industry'. S. C. Leslie, the council's first director, played an important part in
144-561: The Mule over one showing the designer William Morris and a government minister was forced to explain that such choices were not part of the work of the SAC. The choice of subjects for a set honouring 20th Century Women of Achievement was equally controversial. And in 1965, Sir Kenneth Clark resigned as chairman of the committee in protest at the increasing commercialism of the Post Office's stamp issuing policy, saying "There had been
160-606: The SAC have been archived at the British National Archives along with other records of Royal Mail and its predecessors and are available for the public to view as the 30 year embargo elapses. The subjects chosen for British stamps have often been controversial. In 1996 for instance, questions were asked in the House of Lords about the choice of a stamp showing the British children's television character Muffin
176-433: The possible design and advise Royal Mail which they think is the best. The committee's recommendations are not binding on Royal Mail, nor does it select new subjects for stamp issues. The committee is drawn from all walks of life but includes particularly designers, Royal Mail representatives and a British Government representative. No guidelines for stamp issues are provided to either the SAC or Royal Mail. The records of
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#1732786678551192-670: Was educated at Winchester College , Hertford College, Oxford , where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics , and the London School of Economics . He was the Director of the Design Council (formerly the Council of Industrial Design) between 1960 and 1977. Reilly was knighted in 1967. On 20 July 1978, he was made a life peer , as Baron Reilly , of Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . He sat as
208-469: Was heavily involved in the 1951 Festival of Britain , examined ways to reform the education and training of new industrial designers . The Design Centre, in London's Haymarket , was officially opened on 26 April 1956. The Council under Russell combined exhibitions with product endorsements, direct services to industry, commercial publishing and retail. After the Design Council's restructuring in 1994,
224-538: Was instrumental in the promotion of the concept of inclusive design . The Design Council's archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives . The Design Council operates two subsidiaries, the Design Council Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Design Council CABE) and Design Council Enterprises Limited. The Design Council Commission for Architecture and
240-511: Was restructured, resulting in a functional change from being both an advisory body and a provider of goods and services to a primarily strategic mission “to inspire the best use of design by the United Kingdom in the world context, in order to improve prosperity and wellbeing”. On 1 April 2010 it incorporated a subsidiary trading company called Design Council Enterprises Limited to transact “fundraising activities that are not primary-purpose charitable activity.” On 1 April 2011, it ceased to be
256-548: Was suggested in 1995 in Business Strategy Review magazine that the awards made suitable benchmarks, contributing to industrial competitiveness. Paul Reilly, Baron Reilly Paul Reilly, Baron Reilly (29 May 1912 – 11 October 1990) was a British designer. Reilly was born in Liverpool , the son of Sir Charles Herbert Reilly , Roscoe Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool . He
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