Promoting the study of design
The University of Brighton Design Archives is an internationally significant scholarly resource focusing on British design and global design organisations in the twentieth century. We are a research base with a curatorial team that initiates and promotes collaborative activity through a programme of publication and exhibition projects, contributing substantially to the research profile of the University. The Design Archives support the work of scholars and students from many academic disciplines researching the designed environment, the design profession and design practice.
Since the 1990s we have undertaken a range of innovative projects with a variety of partners.
View the Design Archives' projects page for these and our current projects: the AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctorate
'Towards an Atlas of the Design Profession',
'Conserving the Archive' conservation blog, the JISC-funded
'MediaHub' project as well as
e-learning modules.
To consult the collections, please
contact us.
Detailed collection information is being added to the Archives Hub, a portal to descriptions of British university archives.
Images and e-learning modules from the Design Archives can be accessed from the Visual Arts Data Service.
Design Archives
Latest News
The Design Archives host 'Digitisation of Archival Content' seminar.
Visiting speaker from National Museum Wales enhances talk with Brighton images.
A major retrospective of the work of Habitat founder and serial design entrepreneur, Sir Terence Conran, opens 17 November.
Company represented in Design Archives collection the focus of a dedicated exhibition and symposium.
Improved environment for unique materials.
