We’re just finishing up cataloguing the amazing Ali Jacques collection. Ali was a woman of many talents and the collection features her fashion illustrations, acting audition tapes, sketches and drafts of scripts and novels.

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

For a glimpse into university life in the late 19th century, this complaint letter from May 26 1893 from the Brighton School of Art archive. Needless to say campus life in Brighton has come a long way since then!

A look a some of the material taken out for a special visit from the attendees of the Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS) Conference 2025 including material from the FHK Henrion, Alison Settle, Dorrit Dekk, HA Rothholz, Vokins, and @designcouncil.bsky.social archives

The Design Archives' own Sirpa Kutilainen @sirps.bsky.social & Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social are speaking at the Archives and Records Association 2025 Conference @araconference.bsky.social in Bristol next week. Read more about their research here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

FOOD ALRIGHT IF YOU LIKE STODGE & CUSTARD. MY HAIRDRYER IS REFUSING TO COOPERATE. DOING LOTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS.

Including the Design Archives' Preservation & Digital Resources Co-ordinator Sirpa Kutilainen @sirps.bsky.social with Amy Sampson from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and their session titled 'Shut down – switch on: empowerment, problem solving and plugging a gap'.

For @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYATravel, these postcards of miniatures and model villages in New Romney, Polegate, and Hastings from the Barbara Jones archive. BJO/2/3/1

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

This sucks. Digital sewing patterns are nice but a huge pain in the ass to print out, tape together, and cut, and I find that the quality of the instructions vary WIDELY (some are really not good). Resources like this that I wrote about previously are so important: www.theverge.com/23169321/com...

Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D

Masterpeace Design by Emanuel Rapoport & Ophir Paz ICOGRADA/ ICoD Archive ID: ICO/3/53/45

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

American Cancer Society Reprinted with permission from Franklin Watts, Inc. From the books 'Land of Yellow', 'Land of Red', 'Land of Blue', designed by Peter Max Icograda / The ICoD Archive ID: ICO/3/32/97 #WorldHealthDay

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole ➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

Mar 1984: Madonna and Siouxsie & The Banshees ads «SIOUXSIE and the BANSHEES»

The Digital Preservation Coalition has shared recordings from its workflow webinar series. You can find them here: www.dpconline.org/events/previ... #digipres #archives #library 📚

Event | IOTA II – The Rise and Fall of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, with Dr Zoë Hendon, 13 March 2025 with the Centre for Design History. All welcome and more info here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

📣 Call for Papers📣 Proposed Special Issue for the journal Design Issues on the topic of Tangible Archives, co-edited by our Design Archives Director Sue Breakell. Deadline 30 June, more information here: direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

Designed by Audrey Levy this screenprinted wallpaper 'Impasto' won the Council of Industrial Design's ‘Design of the Year’, 1957. For #internationalwomensday let's celebrate Levy & her designs. @designcouncil.bsky.social Archive, DCA/30/1/POR/L/26/1, DCA/30/7/1957/7/1

Help a sister out and sign my petition before my wee witch pricker stalkers on Twitter start gathering the firewood for my burning petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) part of @ukri.org, the Design Archives was awarded funding to continue work addressing sustainability challenges within the archives sector. Read about this ongoing project + what this funding will support here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

Design, February 1959 Cover by I. Bradbery

In celebration of the centenary of the photobooth in 2025, this limited edition print of inventor Anatol Josepho’s Canadian patent for his ‘Photographic Apparatus’ A3 risograph print from www.dopplepress.com on recycled paper Edition of 50 Link in bio 🎈

Photo-Me trashed all their analogue booths when restructuring in late 90s so all analogue photobooths today are run by independent people/small companies. I’ve been conducting interviews w/all these techs (incl Ryan below) for a community archive: The Photobooth Technicians Project- link in bio!

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

The Beastie Boys’ ‘So What’cha Want’ -by The Muppets

#OTD in 1947, David Bowie was born When Barbara Jones was planning the followup to her book 'The Unsophisticated Arts', she reached out to RCA records for photographs of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust for her chapter on 'personal adornment' David Bowie photograph ©RCA Records BJO/2/2/13/1/5

Design, January 1955 Cover by FHK Henrion @designcouncil.bsky.social Archive

Hartford, CT represent!

And... If you're interested in the history of the PDF - and how it was almost cancelled in development - see Eve, Martin Paul. "New Leaves: Riffling the History of Digital Pagination." Book History, vol. 25 no. 2, 2022, p. 479-502. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...

Who’d like to own Prince’s ruffled shirt from Purple Rain? www.bonhams.com/auction/2980...

If you've never used an archive, I hope this thread gives you lots of help understanding how it works, and what you might find. For the rest of us, it's just nice to see archives in use.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

01.01.2025 🌄

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

to share with your friends and colleagues if necessary

Happy winter solstice from Brighton ✨

How do 'AI' tools like automatic speech recognition and chatbots challenge oral historians, raising new questions about archiving and research? Charlie Morgan explores

“No book may be removed…” Jenny Maidment, Head of Library Content & Discovery Systems @uniofbrighton.bsky.social Libraries, reflects on her research into the library records found in the Brighton School of Art Archive, up now on our blog: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

Photobooth, Porta 800, Nikon FE2 #photopraphy #kodak #porta #film #grainisgood #analogphpotography #filmisnotdead #nikoncamera #nikon