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Sirpa Kutilainen
In its seventh year of operation, the Permanent Gallery in Bedford Place, Brighton, has inaugurated a series of artists’ residencies called Platform X. The most recent incumbent, Samuel Dowd, paid an early visit to the Design Archives in preparation of… Continue Reading →
The University of Brighton Design Archives have received national recognition with grants totalling £180,000. The funding, £60,000 in each of the next three years, has been awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). This is the first… Continue Reading →
‘Beyond the Little Magazine: middlebrow print culture, ‘art’ literature and the formation of modernist taste in Britain, 1910-45’. On 14 July 2010 Dr Lesley Whitworth, Deputy Curator of the University of Brighton Design Archives, will be presenting a paper at… Continue Reading →
University of Brighton Design Archives’ Digital Imaging and Media Technician Sirpa Kutilainen has successfully completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Paper Conservation at the University of the Arts, London. For her final project she worked on a set of original mixed… Continue Reading →
World Industrial Design Day happens on 29 June this year, and will coincide with the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts’ Research Festival. The event is organised by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and was inaugurated… Continue Reading →
A new Design Archives display, featuring a selection from the archive of the graphic designer Hans Arnold Rothholz (1919-2000), has been installed outside the Centre for Research and Development at Grand Parade. Arnold Rothholz came to Britain from Germany in… Continue Reading →
A new display of designs by James Gardner relating to his role as chief exhibition designer for the Commonwealth Institute opens in the Faculty of Arts this month. The featured drawings were produced as part of Gardner’s scheme for a… Continue Reading →
Members of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Jonathan Woodham, Dr Catherine Moriarty, and postgraduate research student Ruth Cribb are taking part in a conference organised by the University of Notre Dame Centre in London on 19 and 20 November. The… Continue Reading →
Last night (15 October) at Buckingham Palace, the Design Council and its guests celebrated 50 years of the Prince Philip Design Prize. Many past winners, as well as current nominees, were in attendance as His Royal Highness announced the winner of the 2009 prize, Andrew… Continue Reading →
Items from the Anthony Froshaug Archive are to be included in an exhibition at St Bride Library 27 October – 13 November. Entitled ‘Late letterpress: the work of Desmond Jeffery’, the exhibition focuses on hand-set letterpress. For Froshaug, letterpress was… Continue Reading →
Various items from the FHK Henrion Archive are to be included in an exhibition of cement-based work made over the past five years by artist Steve Mace. Steve’s work is a combination of production series and individual pieces relating to… Continue Reading →
The University of Brighton Design Archives is to take part in a new project to create an unrivaled online image library, comprising over 500 hours of film and 56,000 photos, that will be available free of charge for at least… Continue Reading →
An exhibition of Czechoslovak Film Posters from the 1960s and 1970s bearing witness to a unique era of non-commercial film advertising under a politically restrained regime – the art-form of the film poster at its artistic peak. The exhibition entitled… Continue Reading →
A recent gift to the University of Brighton Design Archives from Robin Plummer, Dean of the Faculty 1975-1989, comprises three signed posters by the graphic designer Peter Strausfeld. Peter Strausfeld (1910-1980) taught graphic design at Brighton College of Art between… Continue Reading →
Willy de Majo played a significant role within the international design community in the second half of the twentieth century. He founded the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, whose archive came to the university in 2003, and was vocal… Continue Reading →
The Design Archives are pleased to announce a generous donation from one of the leading figures in design studies, Professor Victor Margolin of University of Illinois, Chicago. Margolin’s gift brings significant supplementary material to the holdings of the Design Archives…. Continue Reading →
The Brighton School of Art was established above the kitchen of the Royal Pavilion in January 1859, moving to its own building in Grand Parade in 1877. Achieving national standing and expanding substantially in subsequent decades, the school moved into… Continue Reading →
Born in 1940, Paul Clark established his reputation with designs that represent the emergence of British Pop culture. The archive comprises almost forty objects, from mugs to clocks, as well as documentation relating to their manufacture and consumption. It is… Continue Reading →
Theo Crosby (1925-1994) was an architect, sculptor, writer and designer. Working collaboratively across a range of disciplines, he was influential in shaping perceptions of the built environment of the late twentieth century. Crosby studied in South Africa, before coming to… Continue Reading →
Keith Cunningham (1929-2014) was a graphic designer and painter. Born in Sydney, Australia, he moved to London at the age of 20 and studied graphic design at the Central School of Art, and later painting at the RCA. He was… Continue Reading →
Dorrit Dekk (1917-2014) was a graphic designer and artist. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, she studied theatre design in Vienna and then display and commercial art at the Reimann School in London. Working for the Central Office of Information in the… Continue Reading →
De Majo played a major role within the international design community in the second half of the twentieth century. He founded ICOGRADA, whose archive came to the university in 2003, and was vocal in his support of designers and in… Continue Reading →
This major collection charts the extensive activities of the Council of Industrial Design, founded in 1944, through to its re-designation as the Design Council in 1972 and its restructuring in 1994. It includes material relating to all spheres of the… Continue Reading →
Joseph Emberton (1889-1956) was one of Britain’s most significant architects during the inter-war period. His projects, introducing modern design to broad audiences, include the British Empire Hall at Olympia (1929) and Blackpool Pleasure Beach (1935-39). Emberton designed the striking Royal… Continue Reading →
Edwin J Embleton (1907 – 2000) is most widely recognised for his work as studio manager at Odhams Press and in the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. The Archive includes a diverse range… Continue Reading →
Anthony Froshaug (1920 -1984) studied at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London in the 1930s. He established himself as a freelance printer, typographer and exhibition designer influenced by the progressive European typography of Jan Tschichold whose work… Continue Reading →
James Gardner (1907-1995) was one of Britain’s most imaginative post-war designers. Best known for his exhibition work, he applied his skills in a variety of contexts; from illustration to ship design. The archive comprises works on paper that describe… Continue Reading →
Henrion (1914-1990) was born in Germany and studied textile design in Paris before joining the poster design school of Paul Colin. During the Second World War he was employed by the British Ministry of Information and the US Office of… Continue Reading →
Richard Hollis is a graphic designer, writer and teacher. This archive documents the range of his practice across graphic design, writing, teaching and activism. Hollis has taught at various London art schools, as well as having established, with Norman Potter,… Continue Reading →
The International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) has been the professional world body for graphic design and visual communication since it was founded in London in 1963. A voluntary grouping of world-wide associations with a strong educational remit, it… Continue Reading →
