Carma and list,
Victor's friends and family are trying to organize an event or reception in Chicago to take place during the College Art Association's Annual Conference Feb. 12-15. When those plans are firm we will announce it on our website and include it in the official online program. We'll also try to include a tribute acknowledging Victor's generosity and contributions to design history and design studies. I understand from Dennis Doordan that a tribute will also appear in the next installment of Design Issues. For those of you planning to attend the CAA Conference, please consult the website and links to the conference posted there (https://www.collegeart.org/) - we hope to have information posted as soon as we receive the final plans.
Many Thanks,
David
David Raizman
Interim Executive Director
College Art Association
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Colleagues,
I've been meaning for weeks to post my own tribute to Victor Margolin to this list.
I first met Victor around 1998 or 1999, when he introduced himself after a paper I gave at a College Art Association conference and suggested that I submit it to *Design Issues*. I was so fresh out of graduate school in art history that I had no idea who he was. Nor had I had ever heard of *Design Issues. *So when I returned home* from the conference, I looked them both up, which may have been the first time I truly grasped that there were scholars who identified themselves as working in a field called design history that was distinct from (albeit related to) the fields of art history, material culture studies, and architectural history.
*(*I of course couldn't look Victor and *Design Issues* up *while* I was at the conference, because it was the olden days: smartphones had not yet been invented, state universities still invariably provisioned their faculty with desktop rather than laptop computers, and pretty much everyone still connected to their internet service providers via local land-line phone numbers and dial-up modems.)*
It's no exaggeration to say that meeting Victor changed the course of my career. He knew everybody in the field of design history, he was generous about making introductions, and he solicited multiple articles and reviews from me for *Design Issues*. Those essays played a crucial role not only in my tenure case and thus in my continued employment in the field, but also in my eventually becoming one of the fortunate few people in the USA who holds a full-time faculty position in design history. I therefore count myself very lucky that Victor took an interest in my work at the outset of my career and helped me gain a foothold in the field.
I wrote to Victor shortly after he fell ill to wish him well and thank him for taking me under his wing when I was just starting out. I'm really glad I told him—before it was too late—how much his encouragement meant to me.
But what I didn't think to say to him then is that I've tried to pay him back for the boost he gave me—and for his decades-long contribution to the field by co-editing *Design Issues*—by following his lead. Though I am not a naturally outgoing person, over the last decade or so I have made a real effort to introduce myself to promising younger scholars at conferences, and to connect them to people and opportunities that will help them thrive in the field of design history. I hope Victor would see that as a fitting way to honor his legacy.
Thank you for everything, Victor.
Carma
*CARMA GORMAN, Ph.D., *Associate Professor (she/her/hers) The University of Texas at Austin | Department of Design School of Design & Creative Technologies | College of Fine Arts
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On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:20 AM Ken Friedman < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> It is difficult to realise that we have lost such a central figure in
> our field as Victor Margolin. Victor is one of the key figures whose
> ideas and thinking helped to develop the fields of design history and
> design research, and he had a central role in the first conferences on
> doctoral education in design. It was at the first of these, the
> conference in Columbus, Ohio, that this list began.
>
> Victor’s broad learning and his understanding of the role of design
> in society made it a pleasure to talk with him, and a pleasure to
> correspond with him. Many of us have fond memories of Victor’s
> thoughts on topics that interest us outside of design — in my case, we
> occasionally exchanged ideas on different aspects of art and art history.
>
> Victor Margolin — and his work — remain a lively presence to anyone
> active in design research over the past few decades.
>
> Thank you, Victor, and farewell.
>
> Ken Friedman
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