Louis van Praag

Louis van Praag CBE was a British fashion and industrial designer, described as an influence on a generation of British designers from the 1960s onward. van Praag played a major role in the development of design education in Britain over several decades. A lecturer at the capital's Royal [College of Art], he was made chairman of the British government's Committee for Managing Design, and awarded the 1989 Bicentenary Medal by the Royal [Society of Arts]. His portrait hangs in Britain's National [Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery].