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Cataloguing Mr Holden’s Shops

Photograph of a photo album open showing two black and white photographs, as well as a pile of photographs and an archival brown box with another photo album inside.

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 →

2023/11/01 0

A Design Trip Restored through Archive Research: Yun Wang reflects on a Visiting Research Fellow Scheme

Copy of the Icograda Board Message, Issue 4, December 2002. Image is mostly text but there is a black and white image in the newsletter's header of what appears to be a dragon carved out of stone, and on the right hand side is a photograph of 3 people standing on the Great Wall of China.

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 →

2023/03/29 0

Developing archival skills through volunteering at the Design Archives

Photograph of a coloured paper collage by Theo Crosby. The images appears to be an abstract representation of a human figure using different geometrical-shaped pieces of coloured paper. The artwork sits on white tissue paper and next to it are several conservation tools used to clean the artwork.

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 →

2022/09/16 0


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