Career
In 1933 he founded with associates in London the organisation that became the Artists’ International Association. In 1943, with Milner Gray and Herbert Read, Sir Misha Black founded Design Research Unit, a London-based Architectural, Graphic Design and Interior Design Company. From 1959 to 1975 Black was a professor of industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London, England.
During his tenure at the Royal College of Art, he became President of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) from 1959 to 1961.
He was knighted in 1972. Between 1974 and 1976 Black was President of the Design and Industries Association.
Black played an active part in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Black is commemorated in The Sir Misha Black Awards, created in 1978 by the Design and Industries Association, the Royal College of Art (Radio Corporation of America), the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI), and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Recipients include prestigious design educators such as Max Bill (1982), Ettore Sottsass (1999), and Santiago Calatrava (2002).
