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I am very grateful to the Design History Society for awarding me its Research Publication Grant for 2015, which will cover the indexing costs for my forthcoming book Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse (Ashgate, 2016). The book is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation...
ReportsThe DHS Publishing Workshop, held at the annual DHS conference in San Francisco, September 2015, provided a rare opportunity to see inside the editorial process of several journals, from initial review of submissions through the peer review process and to final publication...
ReportsI am very grateful to the Design History Society for funding my attendance at its annual conference at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. This Conference Award enabled me to present a twenty-minute paper titled ‘More Beautifully Moved Being: Designing the Dancer, c.1920-33,’...
ReportsWith the assistance of a DHS Publication Grant, Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design is complete and scheduled for publication in September 2015. Make it New is based almost entirely upon original, primary source materials, and is the first book to...
ReportsDesign History in Practice: Theory, Method and Materials was held on 9-10 June 2015 in Oslo thanks to the generous support of the Design History Society and the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas of the University of Oslo (UiO). Convened by Joana Meroz (VU University Amsterdam) and Gabriele Oropallo (UiO) the event was at the same time a DHS Day Symposium and a research seminar featured in the UiO’s doctoral training programme...
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The DHS Student Research Travel Grant funded a three-week-long field trip to Milan during which I visited several archives, private collections and libraries and interviewed key protagonists of post-war Italian graphic design. The main intent of the research trip was to collect archival documents and visual material, and consult primary and secondary literature for the third chapter of my PhD thesis. The latter aims at exploring the professionalization of graphic design in Italy from the 1930s to the 1950s by looking at...
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The words ‘drone’, ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ (UAV), or ‘Remotely Piloted Aircraft System’ (RPAS) have become common features across contemporary global media reportage...
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With the support of a Design History Society student travel award I was recently able to spend two weeks in China on the trail of Chinese wallpapers. Characterised by large scale hand painted designs of birds...
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