Amongst these, the most complete effort to organise the profession had been that of the Society of Industrial Artists formed in 1930, "to establish for designers a status comparable with that of the architect and the engineer."
And on that path, "in 1936 the Royal Society of Arts singled out a limited number of designers of high eminence and bestowed on them a diploma carrying the right to use the affix R.D.I.
"[4][5][6][1] The Free Lance, 27 July 1949, also observed that: … numbers of returned servicemen members who, having seen something of fine architecture and design during overseas service, now feel the lack of these things in their own country.
[1] The work of a number of members was presented in a private four-day "get-together" exhibition for designers of all types, on the first floor of Edson's Building, 270 Queen Street, in August.
[7][8][1][9] Monthly meetings at the Guild's two-storied suite of rooms, lectures, public exhibitions and articles in a proposed co-sponsored Design Review magazine were to follow.