Please find attached an updated event calendar for 2007. Should you have any
events you would like to add, please email me at [log in to unmask]
Kind regards and wishing you all a happy new year from the Design History
Society
Juliette Kristensen
DHS Communications Officer
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From: "JoAnn \(Joi\) Petrocchi" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 4 January 2007 22:34:57 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Job Posting
Denver Art Museum
ASSISTANT CURATOR
GRAPHIC DESIGN
POSITION PURPOSE:
This curator will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the
Museum’s graphic design collection and for building that holding into one of
the foremost graphic design collections in the United States through
acquisitions, exhibitions, publications, and public programs
ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Take charge of two collections: an existing graphic design holding at the
DAM and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Archive.
• Supervise the cataloging of the AIGA archive
• In conjunction with Collections Management, develop a master plan for the
housing of that holding, as well as long-term programs for exhibitions,
publications, and a series of public programs
• Develop a long-term master plan to further build the graphic design
collection through other acquisitions, exhibitions, publications, and public
programs locally, nationally, and internationally so that the Museum will
ultimately have one of the premier graphic design collections in the United
States.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
• Computer fluency in the following: MS Word, Excel, Access, GroupWise,
ARGUS, PowerPoint, and Internet Search Engines
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to establish priorities with minimal supervision, coordinate work
activities, and handle several projects in varying stages of completion
• Knowledge of museum procedures
EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING
• Master’s degree required, PhD preferred
EXPERIENCE
• At least one year of museum experience
• Knowledge of history of Modern Western Design and/or Modern Western
Graphic Design
This is a full-time position with benefits. Posting closes January 19,
2007. If you are interested in this position please send/fax cover letter,
resume and references to:
Denver Art Museum, Human Resources Administrator (ADG)
100 W 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver CO 80204 Fax #720-913-2768
Joi Petrocchi
HR Administrator
Denver Art Museum
720-913-0139
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From: "Suzanne Fagence" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 4 January 2007 13:57:12 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>, "Suzanne Fagence" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: submission for list
Music Room Workshops
Next workshop 15th January 2007, 17.15-19.00, Free
Held at the V&A Museum, Research Dept, in collaboration with the Royal
College of Music and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Bringing together new research on music-making and the domestic interior.
This month's theme - 'At home', including class differences: music in the
upper-class, middle-class or artisan home; the role of music in family relations
Speakers:
Mark Katz (University of North Carolina), 'The Gramophone and the Family'
Debra Pring (Goldsmiths College, 'Musical Images in the 17th century Dutch Home'
Tarek Barreda (Insititut National d'Histoire de l'Art), 'Music in French
Architecture of the 17th and 18th Centuries'
Chair: Flora Dennis (Curator: The Renaissance Interior, V&A Museum)
contact Suzanne Fagence Cooper, BCUC
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full details on webpage: www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/MusicRoom/Home.htm
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Subject: Query: "Mr. Alexander"
Date: 21 December 2006 11:16:21 GMT
Who is "Mr. Alexander"?
I recently came across a small note on a two-day seminar on industrial
design held in Oslo, Norway in November 1948, organized by the Federation of
Norwegian Industries’ Bureau of Rationalization (Industriforbundets
rationaliseringskontor - IRAS). At this seminar, a film lent by the British
Council of Industrial Design was shown, and someone named "Mr. Alexander"
gave a talk on "Design and materials" (alongside various Norwegian and
Swedish speakers). My only source is a sadly short note/report, so I don't
even have a first name to the man. However, given the English-sounding last
name and the coinciding presence of the CoID film, I suspect "Mr. Alexander"
was invited from Britain and that he might have had some connection with
CoID or other parts of the British design community. I have checked the
indexes of all the relevant books I could think of as well as all the design
encyclopedias at our library without finding anyone with the last name
Alexander (except Christopher Alexander, of course, but he was 12 years old
at the time and thus hardly the man I'm looking for). If anyone should
recognize this "Mr. Alexander" or have any tips on how I can identify him, I
would be most grateful.
Regards
Kjetil Fallan


Research Fellow
Dept. of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies

Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)


N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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+47 73595023 (office)
+47 90937874 (mobile)
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From: "Maria Pozapalidis" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 December 2006 16:08:45 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixteenth Annual Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design
Sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design,
offered jointly by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian
Institution and Parsons The New School for Design
April 12 & 13, 2007
The Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design convenes
scholars and students of decorative arts and design from graduate programs
in the History of Decorative Arts, History of Design, History of Art,
History of Architecture, Anthropology, History, Literary Criticism, and
related fields. It is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to
introduce themselves and their original research to scholars in the field.
Papers are being sought on all aspects of decorative arts, material culture
and design, from the Renaissance to
the present.
The keynote speaker will be Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton
Professor of History and of Art History, The University of Chicago, and
author of Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in
Modern America; The Artist in American Society; Building Lives: Constructing
Rites and Passages; Art, Design, and the Modern Corporation; Humbug: The Art
of P.T. Barnum, etc.
Send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. to:
Dr. Ethan Robey, Asst. Director
MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
Deadline: January 22, 2007.
For more information, see
http://parsons.newschool.edu/departments/history_decoarts_grad_more05.aspx?dID=79&sdID=104&ptype=2
____________________________________
Maria Pozapalidis
Assistant Director for Faculty
Office of the Dean
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Direct: (212) 229-8951 x4203
Fax: (212) 243-1420
http://parsons.newschool.edu/
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