Society News
13 Jan
New Appointment to the DHS Executive Committee: Conference Liaison Officer
The Design History Society seeks a new appointment to the Executive Committee for the position of Conference Liaison Officer, for the period 2012 - 2015.
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13 Jan
New Appointment to the DHS Executive Committee: Communications Officer
The Design History Society seeks a new appointment to the Executive Committee for the position of Communications Officer, for the period 2012 - 2015.
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29 Nov
Change to DHS Executive Committee Members
Changes of office on the Design History Society Executive Committee, following elections in September 2011.
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Essay Prize
Two prizes of £300, one undergraduate and one postgraduate, are awarded annually to maintain high standards in Design History in Higher Education.
Criteria
The competition is open to any student on an accredited BA or MA equivalent course in which Design History is a component. Undergraduate entries are limited to within the UK and Ireland only. Postgraduate submissions are on an international basis. The following criteria apply:
- The essay should be written English.
- The essay should be of dissertation length - at least 6,000 words, up to approximately 12,000 words.
- Two non-returnable photocopies of the essay (with any illustrations) to be submitted. Overseas postgraduate submissions may be as a PDF
- The entrant must have been a full- or part-time student within the academic year 2011/2012.
- The entrant should not have been previously published.
- All essays must be accompanied by an academic nomination. Guidelines for selection are available to tutors on request.
Prizes
- A bursary of £300.
- One year's membership of the Design History Society, including subscription to The Journal of Design History.
- Free place at DHS conference 'The Material Culture of Sport: Design/History/Identity' University of Brighton 13-15 September 2012.
- £100 worth of Oxford University Press publications.
- Five Paperbacks in the Oxford History of Art series.
- Publication of 500 word article about the Essay in the DHS Newsletter
Application forms and guidelines outlining selection and nomination criteria are available from Jill Seddon, DHS Essay Prize Officer, School of Humanities, University of Brighton,10-11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton BN2 1RA, T: +44 (0)1273 643046 j.seddon@brighton.ac.uk
The next deadline for submissions will be Friday 29 June 2012.
Previous Winners
2011
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Mark Kobine, Edinburgh College of Art
'In praise of Lesser Things
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Vera Sacchetti, School of Visual Arts, New York
'Design Crusades: a critical reflection on social design
2010
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Ness Wood BA (Hons) History of Design, Culture and Society, University of Brighton:
‘It’s so New-Fashioned’: Hille, from tradition to modernity’
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Alice Dolan MA History of Design V&A/Royal College of Art:
‘The Adorned Print: print culture, female leisure and the dissemination of fashion in France and England c.1660-1779’
2009
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Anna Kealey, BA (Hons) Visual Communication, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire
‘Innovation and Exploitation: a Critique of American Apparel’
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Ann Christie, MA History of Design, V&A/Royal College of Art, London.
‘A Taste for Seaweed: an 18th century cotton dress printed with a design by William Kilburn'
2008
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Miranda Iossifides, BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
‘A study of the gecekondu in Instanbu, Turkey: Innovative Urbanism for the West and the Global Urban Poor’
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Elizabeth Bisley, MA History of Design, V&A/Royal College of Art, London.
‘Design Change in American Motels, 1945-1970'
2007
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Marcus Swan, BA (Hons) Design in Visual Communications, The Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Eire.
The Medium is the Text Message:The Social and Aesthetic Effect of Text Messages.
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Lauren Porter, History of Design MA, V&A/Royal College of Art, London.
The Cardinal's Hammer.
2006
Undergraduate Prize Winner
John Patrick Hartnett, BA (Hons) Design for Interactive Media, the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Eire.
Derrida by Default: Wolfgang Weingart and the (Accidental) Deconstruction of Swiss Typography
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Chris Campbell, MA Communication Design, Central St Martins, University of the Arts London.
Authority, Obedience and the Naked Street: The British Road Signage System After World War II
2005
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Sian Ball, BA (Hons) Textile Design, Loughborough University.
Children's Clothing in the 1960s: A Period of Transition
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Katherine Feo, MA History of Design, V&A/RCA.
(In)visibility: Memory, Masks and Masculinities in the Great War
2004
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Eleanor Marsden, BA English and the History of Art and Design, Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).
Where Art and Fashion Meet: Unravelling the Significance of an Edwardian Dress
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Di Taylor, MA History of Design RCA/V&A Joint Course
Powder to Go: The Supremacy of the Powder Comapct in the Interwar Years.
2003
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Martin Cahill, BA (Hons) Visual Communications, Dublin Institute of Technology
Universalism vs. National Identity: The Evolution of the Olympic Pictogram.
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Hannah Smith, BA (Hons) History of Design, Culture & Society/University of Brighton
Mirrors of Society? Bankside Power Station & Baltic Flour Mill.
2002
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Jennifer Lock, Fashion and Textile Design, John Moores
A Discussion of the Role of the Photograph, the Viewer and the Viewed in Faashion Photography of the 1990s.
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Alice McEwen, MA History of Design RCA/V&A Joint Course
Wanted Dead or Alive! The Role of the British Bathroom Tap in Constructing (and Reflecting) Idealized Visions and Lived Realities.
2001
Undergraduate Winner
Lizzie Engelen
Pugin's Albury Chimneys - Pots of cash or stacks of style?
Postgraduate Prize Winner
Kate Forde, MA History of Design RCA/V&A Joint Course
Celluloid Dreams: The marketing of Cutex in America 1916-1935.
2000
Undergraduate Winner
Laura Molson, Design Studies A at the Nottingham Trent University.
The Make Do and Mend Campaign, a Successful Strategy?
1998
Undergraduate Winner
Mole Leigh, 3D Craft graduate of the University of Brighton
The Chronomanual Concept: human labour and relative time-consumption in the production of craft.
1997
Postgraduate Winner
Guy Turner, MA History of Design Joint, V&A/RCA.
"Allume Catina" and the Aesthetics of Venetian "Cristallo".