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131:) in 2002-3 marked the development of an international perspective for the collection. ICOGRADA is the professional world body for graphic design and visual communication, founded in London in 1963. The ICOGRADA archive comprises a significant body of documentation relating to governance, administration and educational activities, an important collection of 1500 posters from around the world, and library holdings. In 2007 the 885: 897: 174:
of this resource is on film and digital images that capture local history, UK history, and world history during the preceding 25 years. The Archives was also among nine Higher Education partners contributing data and expertise to the "Look Here!" Project, funded and led by the Visual Arts Data Service. In 2015 the Design Archives won funding from the
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The Design Archives was one of eleven image collections to take part in the JISC-funded 'Digital Images for Education' project, receiving £43,000 in funding, and delivering over 2,300 images from across the wealth of its holdings to this subscription-based service, launched in 2011. The key emphasis
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said the award was "primarily, for their pioneering work since the early 2000s in the areas of access and digitisation — engaging their various publics, specialist and non-specialist — in both processes and content, and putting the Brighton Design Archives at the forefront of debate about the very
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The Design Archives has developed its collections since the 1990s and each archive has been acquired according to a specific collecting policy; to document aspects of twentieth-century design history with a strategic focus on the connections between them. Acquisitions have included the archives of
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2000 – Artist in Residence Project funded by the Arts Council, South East Arts, Brighton & Hove Council, University of Brighton. Nine-month residency by artists Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings, who produced research and student projects leading to the exhibition 'Documents: Adrift in
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Whitworth, Lesley (2007). 'The Housewives' Committee of the Council of Industrial Design: a brief episode of domestic reconnoitring', in Elizabeth Darling and Lesley Whitworth (eds), Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870–1950. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate,
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Whitworth, Lesley (2009) Promoting product quality: the Co-op and the Council of Industrial Design In: Black, Lawrence and Robertson, Nicole, eds. Consumerism and the Co-operative movement in modern British history: Taking stock. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
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Online access to the Design Archives' visual resources has been available in digital form since 1997–1998 with the JIDI: JISC Image Digitisation Initiative, which funded the digitisation of parts of the Design Council Photographic Library, including the 1951
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was selected since it offered the newly established Design History Research Centre (DHRC) led by Professor Jonathan Woodham and Dr Patrick Maguire, who provided research expertise in the area of design and the state. In 1996 an award from the
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Moriarty, Catherine and Paul Bayley (2000). Ministry of Taste: Images from the Design Council Archive. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 12 p. Essay published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Cornerhouse Manchester,
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Whitworth, Lesley (2012) Collective responsibility: the public and the (UK) Council of Industrial Design in the 1940s In: Edquist, Harriet and Vaughan, Laurene, eds. The design collective: an approach to practice. Cambridge Scholars,
147:, a gateway to thousands of archives across more than 200 UK institutions. Records are added regularly as part of the Design Archives' ongoing cataloguing programme. Increasingly, digital objects are being added to these records. 197:, which resulted in HEFCE widening its definition of university collections eligible for support. In 2017, the Design Archives successfully reapplied for funding from this competitive source for the next four years. 516:
Woodham, Jonathan; Lyon, Philippa, eds.. Art and Design at Brighton 1859–2009: from Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural Industries. (2009) p18 Brighton: University of Brighton. world war 2
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Moriarty, Catherine (2007). “Bernard Schottlander’s industrial design as a system of appearances” in Indoors and Out: the sculpture and design of Bernard Schottlander. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute.
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Breakell, Sue and Whitworth, Lesley (2013). "Émigré Designers in the University of Brighton Design Archives", Journal of Design History, first published online 4 March 2013 doi:10.1093/jdh/ept006.
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Woodham, Jonathan M (1995). ‘Redesigning a Chapter in the History of British Design: The Design Council Archive at the University of Brighton.’ Journal of Design History 8 (3): pp. 225–229.
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Woodham, Jonathan; Lyon, Philippa, eds. (2009). ‘Art and Design at Brighton 1859–2009: from Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural Industries. Brighton: University of Brighton.
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Whitworth, Lesley (2008). “The Design Archives at the University of Brighton: A resource for business historians.” Business Archives: Sources and History 96 (November): pp. 69–82.
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Maguire, P. J. and J. M. Woodham (1997). Design and Cultural Politics in post-war Britain: The "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946. London; Washington: Leicester University Press.
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In 2000, the Design Archives developed a more structured e-learning resource, 'Designing Britain 1945–1975: The Visual Experience of Post-War Society'. A £132,000 grant from
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Moriarty, Catherine (2000). "A Back Room Service? The Council of Industrial Design Photographic Library 1945 -1965." Journal of Design History 13 (1): pp. 39–57.
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for the project Exploring British Design, a prototype web portal to connect information about British design held in different museums, archives and libraries.
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The archive also holds a collection of papers reflecting all aspects of the work of engineer, designer and former senior project officer at the Design Council,
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The Design Archives now form part of a group of 33 university museum, galleries and collections to receive this direct support. The industry publication
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Moriarty, Catherine (2005). "Design and Photography" in R. Lenman, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. Oxford University Press, p. 306.
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and is an international research resource. It has many archival collections that were generated by design institutions and individual designers
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Archive Program supported not only the acquisition of the Design Council Archive but also the appointment of a curator and a research officer.
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These online resources were created by Design Archives staff to increase understanding of the Archives, its activities and collections:
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Woodham, Jonathan M (2004). ‘The Design Archive at Brighton: serendipity and strategy.’ Art libraries journal 29 (3): pp. 15–21.
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supported the creation of seven modules, each containing around 100 visual records and contextual texts by subject specialists.
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then on tour to Vitra Museum, Berlin and other venues. The Design Archives loaned material from the FHK Henrion Archive.
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The Design Archives initiates exhibitions and contributes to exhibitions at other institutions. Some examples include:
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In October 2018, it was announced that the University of Brighton Design Archives had been awarded the prestigious
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In recognition of its national and international role in higher education, the Design Archives received a 3-year
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In 2009 the Design Archives team was expanded as a result of further investment by the University of Brighton.
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centres on British and global design organisations of the twentieth century. It is located within the
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The University of Brighton Design Archives has its origins in the deposit of the archive of the
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2004 – The Design Archives co-ordinated research in Britain for the exhibition and publication
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The acquisition of the archive of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (
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Inscribing design on the nation: the creators of the British Council of Industrial Design.
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named the Design Archives as one of the five key design research collections in the UK.
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Designs for Solidarity: Photography and the Cuban Political Poster 1965–1975
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Evolving archival interfaces and the University of Brighton Design Archives
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The Design Archives collections are represented on these Web resources:
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Since 2005 the Design Archives has contributed catalogue data to the
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University of Brighton, "Design Archives; Projects and Exhibitions"
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From Archive to Retroscope: pushing forward resource integration
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http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives/projects
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Taste’, University of Brighton Gallery, 2–22 December 2000.
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International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
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exhibition at the University of Brighton, and at the
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for Innovation in Design Education. In his oration,
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University of Brighton
Brighton
Design Council
University of Brighton
Getty Foundation
James Gardner
FHK Henrion
Council of Industrial Design
Alison Settle
British Vogue
Bernard Schottlander
Paul Clark
Barbara Jones
HA Rothholz
Edwin Embleton
Anthony Froshaug
Joseph Emberton
Theo Crosby
Natasha Kroll
WH Mayall
ICOGRADA
International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
Archives Hub
Festival of Britain
Scran
Visual Arts Data Service
Jisc
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Muir Russell

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