Blog - 2014

Reports

Design in the 1970s: a still misunderstood decade

4 November 2014

​Since 2010 I have been working on a book I would like to publish about design, styling and entertainment in the...

Reports

6x6: Collaborative Letterpress Project

1 November 2014

6x6 is a collaborative letterpress research project that brings together six leading UK based Higher Education design...

Reports

Art in Everyday Life and the Do-It-Yourself Soviet Fashion of Nadezhda Lamanova

1 November 2014

​After the 1917 October Revolution, many Russian artists and craftsmen joined the Bolshevik regime and utilized their...

Reviews

(De)constructing Utopia at the Humanities Research Institute

22 October 2014

​(De)constructing Utopia: Design in Eastern Europe from Thaw to Perestroika, a conference hosted by the Humanities...

Reports

Negotiating Female Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of Vera 'Jack' Holme (1881-1969)

1 October 2014

​Sigmund Freud stated, in 1933, 'When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is "male or female", and...

Essay Prize Winners and Nominees

DHS Essay Prize Winners 2014

21 September 2014

The full list of the winners and nominees of the 2014 DHS Essay Prize

Reports

Student Bursary Report - Tom Cubbin

10 September 2014

​This year's theme of Design for War and Peace inspired me to put together a panel that would reconsider the...

Features

Q and A with Claire I R O'Mahony

23 July 2014

​With the 2014 DHS conference not too far away, we asked conference convenor Claire I R O'Mahony a few questions...