Dugald Cameron | |
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| Director of theGlasgow School of Art | |
| In office 1991 (1991) – 1999 (1999) | |
| Preceded by | John Whiteman |
| Succeeded by | Seona Reid |
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| Born | 1939 (age 86–87) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | Glasgow School of Art |
| Occupation | Artist, Industrial Design, Educationalist |
Dugald Cameron,OBE,FCSD,FRSA (born 1939) is a Scottish artist and industrial designer.[1][2]
Cameron was born inGlasgow in 1939 and raised nearClydebank, attending theHigh School of Glasgow.[1] He obtained both aDA and aPostgraduate Diploma fromGlasgow School of Art.[3] He subsequently worked as a freelanceindustrial designer, during which time he designed a prototypemedical ultrasound machine, theLund machine (aka the Sundén machine, after Bertil Sundén ofLund University, who commissioned it), and the production version, theDiasonograph, working withmedical physicistTom Brown.[4]
He also worked as an artist, specialising inaviation subjects.[3] As an aviation and railway historian, he has published books on both topics.[1]
Appointed a visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art in 1963, he became Senior Lecturer in Product Design there in 1970, and subsequently rose to be Governor, Head of Design and finally, from 1991 to his retirement in 1999, Director.[1][3]
He is an honorary professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at theUniversity of Glasgow[3] and a visiting professor at the Department ofDesign, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at theUniversity of Strathclyde. He was a member of the academic advisory panel on the development of displays at Glasgow'sRiverside Museum, but criticised the final arrangements, saying "The building itself and its historic setting is splendid, but I think that the exhibition, and the way it has been handled, is a bit dumbed-down. I don’t think the exhibition design is satisfactory at all - it seems to be [more] visual effect than scholarly effort. It seems to me to be an incoherent exhibition."[5]
He was awarded the Lord Provost of Glasgow's Gold Medal for Education in 1998[6] and appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the2000 New Year Honours, "for services to Art and Design".[7] The same year, he was made an honoraryDoctor of Science by theUniversity of Strathclyde.[6] A Companion of theRoyal Aeronautical Society, he was granted theBaird of Bute Society's aviation award in 2013.[6] His paintings are in the collections of theNational Museum of Flight, theRoyal Navy Submarine Museum and theFleet Air Arm Museum.[2]
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