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University of Brighton Design Archives


The University of Brighton Design Archives centres on British and global design organisations of the twentieth century. It is located within the University of Brighton Grand Parade campus in the heart of Brighton and is an international research resource. It has many archival collections that were generated by design institutions and individual designers

The University of Brighton Design Archives has its origins in the deposit of the archive of the Design Council (formerly the Council of Industrial Design) in 1994. The organisation was restructured by recommendation of the 1993–94,"Future Design Council" report (also known as the Sorrell Report) and consequently its records needed to be relocated. Various repositories were considered and the University of Brighton was selected since it offered the newly established Design History Research Centre (DHRC) led by Professor Jonathan Woodham and Dr Patrick Maguire, who provided research expertise in the area of design and the state. In 1996 an award from the Getty Foundation Archive Program supported not only the acquisition of the Design Council Archive but also the appointment of a curator and a research officer.

The Design Archives has developed its collections since the 1990s and each archive has been acquired according to a specific collecting policy; to document aspects of twentieth-century design history with a strategic focus on the connections between them. Acquisitions have included the archives of James Gardner and FHK Henrion, who both worked with the Council of Industrial Design (later the Design Council) in the early parts of their career. Subsequent additions of individual designer's archives include those of Alison Settle a journalist and editor of British Vogue, and Council member in the 1950s; whose archive had been deposited in the University's library.

The archives of Bernard Schottlander, Paul Clark, and Barbara Jones, designers from different periods each having connections with the Design Council's work. Communication designers HA Rothholz, Edwin Embleton and Anthony Froshaug. Architects Joseph Emberton and Theo Crosby, and the display and set designer, Natasha Kroll.


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