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The Way We Live Now: Conran exhibition opens

A major retrospective of the work of Habitat founder and serial design entrepreneur, Sir Terence Conran, opens on November 17 at the Design Museum in London and runs until 4 March 2012. In his earlier life, Terence Conran was an… Continue Reading →

Design in Mind at Southend Museum

On Saturday 29 October a symposium entitled Design in Mind will be held to explore the central role played by design in the success of the Southend-on-Sea firm of EKCO, one of the country’s leading radio, television and plastic manufacturers… Continue Reading →

Design Archives’ new document store

Long hoped for and now complete, the Design Archives are delighted to begin the new academic year with a much improved document store housing some of their most important collections.  The store has been relocated and fitted out from scratch… Continue Reading →

Commonwealth Institute open house event

This weekend the Commonwealth Institute will be open for the public to view one last time before construction work starts to turn the building on Kensington High Street into a new home for the Design Museum, due to open in… Continue Reading →

Design Activism and Social Change

Running from 7-10 September, ‘Design Activism and Social Change’ is the theme of the Design History Society’s 2011 conference, to be held in Barcelona. The event is convened by Guy Julier, the University’s Principal Research Fellow in Contemporary Design at… Continue Reading →

MacDonald Gill digital resource launched

A wide range of Max Gill’s (1884-1947) works were brought together in a pioneering exhibition held at the University of Brighton Gallery July 22 – August 31, 2011. Max Gill (1884-1947) was an artist and designer of remarkable versatility. An… Continue Reading →

Keepers – an exhibition of personal collections

Opening in Brighton this weekend is a new exhibition that allows people with a passion for collecting the opportunity to show their possessions to the public. One of the contributors is Barbara Taylor of the Design Archives, a recent University… Continue Reading →

Japanese posters from the 1960s and 70s

The Design Archives have created a unique display of rare Japanese posters from the 1960s and 70s for the 2011 Brighton Japan Festival. The ten images that make up the exhibition at the Jubilee Library include work by some of… Continue Reading →

Design Archives Collaborative Doctorate 2011

The University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, in collaboration with the Design Museum, has secured two Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award studentships to add to its significant portfolio of postgraduate research. One of these is hosted by… Continue Reading →

Archiving design organisations

The Design Archives at the University of Brighton hold the archives of three major design organisations – the Design Council, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). The aim… Continue Reading →

Houses of Parliament advocacy reception

In 2010 the Design Archives joined the small group of university museums funded by the Higher Education Funding Council. On 4 May, Ivan Lewis MP, the shadow Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, hosted a University Museum Group (UMG)-sponsored… Continue Reading →

Design Archives material featured in new book

Professor Jonathan Woodham and Deputy Curator Lesley Whitworth represented the Design Archives at a book launch taking place at the Royal College of Art in London. Author Henrietta Goodden carried out part of the research for ‘The Lion and The… Continue Reading →

Unique Festival of Britain file digitised

A unique file relating to the planning of the 1951 Festival of Britain is now accessible online for the first time. One of 77 files in the Design Council Archive relating to this national event, file 14B/27 comprises 285 pages… Continue Reading →

Design Centre for Global Needs

Chair of the Department of Design and Industry at San Francisco State University, Professor Ricardo Gomes IDSA visited the Design Archives as part of his sabbatical research. He is developing an important new study centre addressing global needs. Using the… Continue Reading →

Design Archives material at Festival Hall

The Southbank Centre celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain with a four-month Festival of British culture and creativity. This includes an exhibition about the history of the Festival of Britain which opens this week. Publications and photographs… Continue Reading →

‘Illuminations’ talk in Coventry

On Tuesday April 19th deputy curator Dr Lesley Whitworth is the invited speaker in the Illuminations series of talks at the recently revamped Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry.  She will be profiling her doctoral research which investigated changes… Continue Reading →

‘Conserving the Archive’

After graduating from the PgDip Conservation course at University of the Arts, London at Camberwell in June 2010, Sirpa Kutilainen continues her work at the Design Archives as a Digital Imaging and Media Technician with an added passion for paper… Continue Reading →

Design Archives research

Curatorial Director, Dr. Catherine Moriarty, made a presentation about research in the Design Archives at the University of Brighton Research Initiatives Awards Ceremony on Monday 4th April 2011.The event highlighted the wide range of research taking place across the university…. Continue Reading →

Faculty Fellow showcases Design Archives’ resources at Tate St Ives

Dr Harriet Atkinson, Faculty Fellow hosted by the Design Archives, will take part in a study day on the Design Research Unit that accompanies the Tate St Ives showing of the exhibition. Harriet’s talk ‘Propaganda in Three Dimensions’: the exhibition… Continue Reading →

New BBC programme uses Design Archives’ images

The first episode of a new BBC 2 series called The British At Work aired on Thursday 10 March, with a focus on the period 1945-1964.  Presented by Kirsty Young, the programme explored British working lives since the Second World… Continue Reading →

Centenary of International Women’s Day marked using Brighton image

The University of Brighton Design Archives celebrates 100 years of International Women’s Day on March 8th. An image of the pioneering potter Norah Braden (1901-2001) from the Brighton School of Art archive contributes to a display at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art… Continue Reading →

Latest Design Archives digitisation work showcased at RIBA

As part of  the JISC-funded Look-Here! project, Barbara Taylor and Carolyn Thompson from the University of Brighton Design Archives will present new digitisation work created in the Archives during 2010, at a conference held at the Royal Institute for British Architects, in… Continue Reading →

Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts’ major spring show, ‘Modern British Sculpture’ is attracting controversy even before it opens. By pursuing a ‘rigorous formal argument and an unforgiving intellectual stance’ it presents a challenging visual journey that omits the work of… Continue Reading →

Robin Day dies ages 95

Awarded Doctor of Letters by the University last year, one of Britain’s most distinctive designers, Robin Day, has died. The University of Brighton Design Archives house a great deal of material relating to the designs of Robin Day and those… Continue Reading →

Design Archives adds to the BBC’s recorded history

A reel-to-reel audio tape from the Anthony Froshaug collection in the Design Archives has been added to the BBC’s Sound Archive.  The tape is a rare piece of surviving documentation, made by the BBC, of ‘Painting Recital’, a performance event… Continue Reading →

Archive Litter Bins in ‘House of the Vernacular’ exhibition

Photographs of litter bins from the Design Council Picture Library are included in one of the major shows of the Brighton Photo Biennial. Selected by Martin Parr, the images form part of the exhibition ‘House of the Vernacular’, an installation… Continue Reading →

Design Research Unit Exhibition

An exhibition focusing on the Design Research Unit opens tonight at the Cubitt Gallery in London. Covering the period 1942-72, it documents the work of the pioneering design organisation and its key players, notably Misha Black who is represented extensively… Continue Reading →

Samuel Dowd uses Design Archives

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 →

National recognition for Design Archives

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

‘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 →

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