Author Sirpa Kutilainen
The University of Brighton Design Archives has retained its place among the country’s top museums, galleries and collections by once again receiving funding from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE). Funding was first awarded in 2010 and, following a competitive… Continue Reading →
Partnerships underpin many of the activities of the University of Brighton Design Archives be they AHRC studentships, research council-funded projects or artist residencies. This year, we have teamed up with leading British designer Margaret Howell to support the charity Open… Continue Reading →
To mark the 70th anniversary of the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition, the Design Archives have launched several initiatives to provoke research and showcase our resources. The original Britain Can Make It catalogue and its supplements have been digitised… Continue Reading →
Booking is open for a symposium on materiality in art and design archives, organised by the Committee for Art and Design Archives (part of ARLIS/UK and Ireland) in collaboration with the University of Brighton Design Archives, taking place on the… Continue Reading →
In 1971, a group of art students working in photography and film, interested in questions of visual perception and new practices of conceptual art, set up a studio at Brighton School of Art and called it Experimental Studies. By the… Continue Reading →
Design Research & Its Participants is an invited curatorial intervention in the fiftieth anniversary conference of the Design Research Society, taking place in Brighton 24-27 June. Curated by Dr Lesley Whitworth, Design Archives’ Deputy Curator, the exhibition examines the inter-play… Continue Reading →
To mark the 70th anniversary of the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition, the original catalogue and its supplements have been scanned to enable wider access to this important research resource. Published by the Council of Industrial Design, the catalogue… Continue Reading →
The 2016 Winter Conference of the Institute of Historical Research The Production of the Archive takes place on 29 January. Professor Catherine Moriarty has been invited to take part in the event which considers the agency of both the archivist and the… Continue Reading →
The AHRC collaborative doctoral awards encourage research projects that link academic and non-HE partners. Working with both the Design Museum and the Chartered Society of Designers, the University’s Design Archives were successful in winning two studentships, in 2010 and… Continue Reading →
‘To hell with culture’ is a phrase borrowed from Eric Gill and employed by Herbert Read to open – as well as to entitle – his important essay of 1941 on culture and democracy. It is a theme that will… Continue Reading →
The Joseph Emberton Archive has been part of the University of Brighton Design Archives since 2002. This exhibition for Pallant House, curated by Professor Catherine Moriarty and Design Archives Archivist and Research Fellow, Sue Breakell, showcases items from the collection alongside… Continue Reading →
The Design Archives were represented at a symposium on design resources and research organized by the Design History Workshop Japan. At the invitation of Professor Iguchi Toshino of Saitama University, the work of the University of Brighton Design Archives was… Continue Reading →
Catherine Moriarty, Professor of Art and Design History presents her inaugural lecture. How the past is represented in the present has always been central to many branches of the humanities. This lecture explores a number of the frameworks within which… Continue Reading →
Developing a critical position on digital environments and digital content, and considering what this means for researchers, is central to the work of the university’s Design Archives. A successful bid in the latest round of AHRC Digital Transformation awards ensures… Continue Reading →
Material from the Design Archives collections can currently be seen in two important exhibitions at major London galleries. Tate’s substantial new survey of the work of founding Pop artist Richard Hamilton includes three of our bound volumes of Design magazine, the journal… Continue Reading →
Leah Armstrong, one of the Faculty’s AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award students, is speaking at a national conference ‘Making Connections: Collaboration in Research and Practice, on 10 January 2014. Her paper ‘Professionalism and the Designer: Connecting Past and Present’ draws on… Continue Reading →
There was something magical about the archive staff getting the posters out of the drawers and people’s initial reactions to seeing them – I could be there for weeks! Ian Wright There is ‘something’ about the Archive – it has… Continue Reading →
Building on the critical and popular success of the current exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade at the Whitechapel Gallery, Faculty researchers are among the designers, curators and artists speaking at a study day on Friday 14 June. Join Simon Costin,… Continue Reading →
The current Design Archives project at the Whitechapel Art Gallery Black Eyes & Lemonade: Curating Popular Art will be discussed at an ICA seminar on 5 June. Asking if the relationship between radical collectives and institutional structures in the arts is paradoxical,… Continue Reading →
Sue Breakell, Archivist and Research Fellow at the Design Archives, is the keynote speaker at a workshop on ‘Archives and Archival Practices’ at the University of Northumbria on Friday 24 May 2013. This interdisciplinary event considers the role of archives… Continue Reading →
Black Eyes & Lemonade: Curating Popular Art at the Whitechapel Gallery is a project devised by Design Archives Curatorial Director, Catherine Moriarty and the Director of the Museum of British Folklore, Simon Costin in collaboration with the Whitechapel Art Gallery Archive… Continue Reading →
Curatorial Director Dr Catherine Moriarty and Archivist Sue Breakell are speaking at the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, being held at the University of Reading from 11-13 April. Both will draw on the Design Archives collections, those of the Council of… Continue Reading →
A new article by Design Archives curators Lesley Whitworth and Sue Breakell has been published by the Journal of Design History. Introducing the archives of five émigré designers held at the Design Archives, it indicates their rich potential in the under-researched field of émigré… Continue Reading →
On Friday 1 March Curatorial Director of the University of Brighton Design Archives, Catherine Moriarty, is speaking at a V&A conference about posters. The event considers how poster collections are re-presented and re-displayed for contemporary audiences. The University of Brighton… Continue Reading →
The focus of this month’s feature slot on the Archives Hub, a leading online research portal providing access to records of archives held in over 200 British institutions, is the archive of the graphic and information designer H A (Arnold)… Continue Reading →
Design Archives Archivist and Research Fellow Sue Breakell is speaking at the annual national conference of the Archives and Records Association, the professional body for archivists and conservators, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, 29-31 August 2012. Sue’s paper is… Continue Reading →
Dr Lesley Whitworth will be speaking at a conference to mark the 75th Anniversary of the pioneering social research organisation Mass-Observation, being held at the University of Sussex, 4-6 July. Mass-Observation has become a focus of interest for many different disciplinary… Continue Reading →
Dr Lesley Whitworth is an invited speaker at ‘Bright Modernity: Colour, Commerce, and Consumption in Global Perspective’ being organised at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, by Drs Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Uwe Spiekermann. The event runs over three days… Continue Reading →
This summer the Design Archives launch a limited edition canvas bag, the outcome of a collaboration with British designer William Kroll. Founder of the design company Tender, Kroll is the great-nephew of designer Natasha Kroll whose archive is held in… Continue Reading →
This week, the Design Archives launch a new digital resource to celebrate Helsinki’s designation as World Design Capital 2012. This resource was produced to showcase Finnish materials held in the archives of the Council of Industrial Design/Design Council, ICOGRADA and… Continue Reading →
