Society News
1 May
DHS Network Co-ordinator
The Design History Society is looking to enhance the activities of the Executive Committee with the appointment of Network Co-ordinator, to plan and develop new networks germane to the Design History Society and related subjects....More
1 May
Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture
Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture is a two day series of events bringing one of today's foremost philosophers of media to Tate Modern for an opportunity to examine the relationship between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and practitioners, on 27-28 June 2008....More
1 May
Commonplace Yet Extraordinary
The symposium “Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects” will take place at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday 16 May, 2008....More
Museums
British Museum
Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
ndm.si.edu
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
The De Morgan Centre
www.demorgan.org.uk
The De Morgan Centre brings together the De Morgan Foundation's extensive collection of the works of William and Evelyn De Morgan, and archive material relating to them and their circle.
The Design Museum
www.designmuseum.org
The Design Museum focuses on 20th and 21st century design, architecture and fashion.
Geffrye Museum
www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
The Geffrye is the only museum in the United Kingdom to show a specialist collection of English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms.
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
www.moma.org
The Museum of Modern Art in New York also holds a collection of design.
The Science Museum
www.nmsi.ac.uk
The National UK Museum of Science and Industry
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Whitworth Art Gallery
www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk
The Whitworth Art Gallery is home to collections of British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers as well as a range of modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture.
