Book token card, designed by Dorrit Dekk #WorldBookDay #EYAWomen Dorrit Dekk Archive ID: DDK/3

🚨 Call For Entries🚨 Design a bench for Brighton Marina! Open to all students University of Brighton School of Art & Media. This year's theme is Sussex Nature & Wildlife. The DA's Sue Breakell is on the judge's panel, deadline for submissions 5 April. More info: brightonmarina.co.uk/events/brighto…

Aerial studio plan for 'Play of the Month' Mary Queen of Scots, 1968-69. Production design by Natasha Kroll, producer Basil Coleman, for the BBC #WorldTheatreDay Natasha Kroll Archive ID: NKR/2/8

Developed by our conservator in collaboration with The National Archives, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council part of UK Research and Innovation, an upcoming roundtable discussion will explore a practical way to reduce carbon emissions for more sustainable archive practice. Read more here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

Great PhD opportunity!

A behind the scenes look at some of the @DesignCouncil material we took out today for Level 5 Design for Digital Media students, including some of the Council's publications, pamphlets, photographs and more

We’ve added labels and text panels so students, colleagues and visitors can find out more about our FHK Henrion posters on display in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Mithras House. They’re facsimiles produced for an exhibition of Henrion’s work in the late 1980s.

As part of our conservation programme, we will be having a panel discussion on HVAC shutdowns, featuring *takes a deep breath*: West Yorkshire Archive Service; University of Reading Special Collections; National Library of Scotland; University of Brighton University of Brighton Design Archives and Middlesex University! Book here ➡️ openingdoors.eventsair.com/ara2024/regist…

For her 1951 exhibition 'Black Eyes and Lemonade' Whitechapel Gallery Barbara Jones curated a section on the Decoration of Food with a 'glass topped tin with a selection of fancy biscuits inside', which she contacted manufacturers Huntley & Palmer for. BJO/1/3/35 #NationalBiscuitDay

Join us for Archive Director Sue Breakell's book launch with the The Centre for Design History on Monday, all invited!

We had an intellectually-stimulating book launch last evening, where we heard from Claire Wintle Hajra Kate Guy Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell. Thanks to everyone who joined us in-person and online to celebrate the two fabulous books! 🥂 #designhistory

Pleased to be part of this new exhibition Tate Britain, 'Artists International: The First Decade', read more on our blog here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

Could you be our next VRF? We are inviting applications for the Design Archives/The Centre for Design History International Visiting Research Fellow, deadline 19 Sept! More info and how to apply: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

'If I love the boys, it is nothing to nobody' Mug designed by Paul Clark PCK/1/12/2 Happy Pride! #brightonpride

From Archive Sustainability to the Vernacular Art & Design of Death: Design Archives speakers at upcoming conferences Up now on our site, read about recent work by the team which will be presented Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) #ARA2024 & DeathxDesignxCulture Falmouth University blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

There's still time to apply! Deadline 19th September

Pleased to have our photo of textile designer Althea McNish from the @DesignCouncil Archive in the 'Lifting Us Up' exhibition at Royal Sussex County Hospital University Hospitals Sussex, on now until 26th November. For more info about the exhibition: drive.google.com/file/d/1X55nP9…

#OTD in 1925 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first greyscale television picture of a ventriloquist's dummy. Barbara Jones illustrated this & other notable advancements in technology for the 1950 Financial Times calendar. ID: BJO/3/2/1

'A Passion for Archives' Now on our site, kila, a recent graduate of the MA Curating, Collections, and Heritage programme History Art Design reflects on her placement at the Design Archives and how that's prepared her for life after graduation blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

Our next IOTA II event is 27 Nov The Centre for Design History w/Pauline Rutter on Designing for ‘Radical, Informed and Liberatory Scholarship’: A Creative Archival Research Journey inspired by Institute for Race Relations Race & Class Publication Journal Covers More Info blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…