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‘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 →
