We are pleased to announce a new series of seminar hours held by the Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton, led by our Visiting Research Fellow, Dora Souza Dias. Expanding Graphic Design Histories is an opportunity… Continue Reading →
CDH welcomes new member, Professor Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Dean of the School of Art and Media, who introduces her research interests and reflects on their relationship to design history. The work of the Centre for Design History at the University… Continue Reading →
Two-day international online conference January 21-22, 2022 Organised by Dr Alex Nora Esculapio, Dr Annebella Pollen and Dani Trew, with support from the Centre for Design History (CDH) at University of Brighton, UK, this free online conference aims to explore… Continue Reading →
Introducing: your new favourite design history podcast, Graphic Interventions Graphic Interventions, a new podcast series investigating political interventions through the graphic form, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson will launch at the end of October 2021. In each episode Harriet… Continue Reading →
CDH director Annebella Pollen has teamed up with Historic England to explore pictures taken by the public during the first 2020 lockdown. The Picturing Lockdown projectasked the public to submit photographic depictions of lockdown during April and May 2020,… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to CDH member Zeina Maasri on being shortlisted for the 2021 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for her monograph, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties (Cambridge University Press, 2020) The award recognises originality, clarity and accessibility,… Continue Reading →
Visiting PhD student, Lorenzo Merlino (University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil), outlines his work-in-progress on eighteenth century women’s dress in England and France. During the first semester of 2021, I was kindly welcomed by the Centre for Design History, under… Continue Reading →
Join CDH’s Annebella Pollen for the launch of the NO OLHA DA RUA ARCHIVE Project’s latest zine, ‘Rosemary’s cars’, held at Fabrica, Brighton. Reserve your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-performances-talks-no-olho-da-rua-tickets-167883414813
Event organiser Helen Mears and speaker Shelley Angelie Saggar report on the recent CDH event ‘Decolonising the Database‘ Decolonising the Database took place on 5 July 2021 at the University of Brighton. Its aim was to bring together researchers and… Continue Reading →
Vivien Chan (University of Nottingham) and Zara Arshad (University of Brighton) review the event Design Archives in Asia, held online by the Centre for Design History in June 2021. On the 2nd and 3rd June 2021, the Centre for Design… Continue Reading →
