Author Jen Grasso
Jenny Maidment, Head of Library Content & Discovery Systems, University of Brighton Libraries, reflects on her research into the library records found in the Brighton School of Art Archive. I’ve been a librarian for over 30 years and have worked… Continue Reading →
Our colleague Harriet Atkinson’s new book Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53, which draws heavily on our collections, was published recently by Manchester University Press. We asked Harriet to introduce the book. How did exhibitions become used… Continue Reading →
Join the Centre for Design History and the University of Brighton Design Archives for the November instalment of our IOTA II seminar series, with archival artist, writer and poet, Pauline Rutter. Pauline will be speaking on Designing for ‘Radical, Informed and… Continue Reading →
The Archives and Records Association’s section for Business Records held their annual Summer Seminar on 19th September on the theme of the Olympics and Jen Grasso shared some relevant material from the Design Archives Collections alongside speakers from the International… Continue Reading →
MA Curating, Collections, and Heritage student Kila Galvin recently completed a placement at the Design Archives as part of her course. During her placement we commissioned her to interview recent graduate Leon French (BA Graphic Design), winner of the 2023… Continue Reading →
Andy Taylor is writing a biography of English playwright and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, to be published next year. Researching for a biography can often feel like finding your way through an endless maze of facts, dates and figures,… Continue Reading →
The University of Brighton Design Archives (UoBDA) and the Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton invite applications for a funded International Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the Design Archives and the CDH in the academic… Continue Reading →
Youjin Choi, an Exhibition designer at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in South Korea was a Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) at the University of Brighton as part of the Centre for Design History/University of Brighton… Continue Reading →
Photographs from the Design Archives’ FHK Henrion archive feature in a new exhibition at Tate Britain’s archive gallery, ‘Artists International Association: the first decade’. The Artists International Association (AIA) was a London-based anti-fascist membership organisation whose activities included exhibitions on… Continue Reading →
The University of Brighton Design Archives (UoBDA) and Centre for Design History (CDH) invite applications for a funded International Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the CDH and the Design Archives in the spring semester (February-June 2024) of 2023/24 to pursue… Continue Reading →
Recent MA Design and Material Culture student Anna-Katharina Farnleitner writes about her time volunteering at the UoB Design Archives. When I started my master’s degree at the University of Brighton in History of Design and Material Culture, I wanted to… Continue Reading →
During the summer of 2023, the Design Archives in collaboration with the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems and the Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture project at the University of Brighton hosted two research placements co-funded by… Continue Reading →
A guest post by Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Vladislav Vaculin and Andrei Sobo. During the summer of 2023, the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems in collaboration with the Design Archives and the Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture network service at the University… Continue Reading →
Yun Wang was a Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) as part of the Centre for Design History’s International Scheme and a contributing author to International Design Organizations Histories, Legacies, Value. Figure [1] “Crumbling Walls, New Dawn” by Robert L. Peters, President of Icograda from… Continue Reading →
A new exhibition at Brighton CCA, at the University’s Grand Parade site, continues an ongoing programme of artist commissions using the University of Brighton Design Archives as a starting point. Brighton CCA commissioned Resolve Collective to make a new body… Continue Reading →
The Design Archives is contributing to an innovative project run by our longstanding partner, the Archives Hub, to investigate the potential of Machine Learning and the photographic platform IIIF for its operations. Our relationship with the Hub, which delivers our… Continue Reading →
Recent MA Curating Collections and Heritage student Rachel Ng writes about her work as a volunteer at the Design Archives to support her professional development The idea of preserving history for future generations has always fascinated me. Museums, archives, and heritage sites are a… Continue Reading →
