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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 →
This week marks the publication of The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People, the new book by Honorary Faculty of Arts Fellow Harriet Atkinson. In her preparation for the book Harriet used papers, sketches and photographs from the Design… Continue Reading →
The University of Brighton Design Archives, in collaboration with Newham College of Further Education, is organizing a study day at the Fashion and Textiles Museum on Wednesday 16 May 2012. The study day coincides with the exhibition ‘Designing Women’ that… Continue Reading →
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral student, Leah Armstrong, is curating a display of portraits of women designers for a new exhibition at the Fashion & Textiles Museum, London. Opening on 16 March, the display includes original photographic portraits from the University of Brighton… Continue Reading →
On 7 December, the Design Archives host a seminar entitled ‘Digitisation of Archival Content – sharing expertise’ at Grand Parade. The seminar, organised in collaboration with the Brighton Swimming Club Archive housed at the East Sussex Records Office, is a… Continue Reading →
Rachel Conroy, Assistant Curator of Applied Art at the National Museum Wales, will be speaking on twentieth century ceramics from the museum’s collection at a forthcoming event at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In preparing her talk she was… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
