community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
The Good Women of Peterhouse: Patriarchal Community, Femininity and University Reform
in Journal of Design History
May 2015; p ublished online April 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Art Forms; Art Styles; History of Art; Industrial and Commercial Art. 8664 words.
This article reads a Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company stained glass window in light of Victorian reforms extending university education to women. Designed by Edward Burne-Jones and...
Walt Disney and the Quest for Community
in Journal of Design History
January 2003; p ublished online January 2003 .
Journal Article. Subjects: History of Art; Art Forms; Industrial and Commercial Art; Art Styles. 0 words.
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The Alderley Sandhills Project: An Archaeology of Community Life in (Post)-Industrial England
in Journal of Design History
March 2011; p ublished online March 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: History of Art; Art Forms; Industrial and Commercial Art; Art Styles. 1130 words.
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Cumulus (1990)
in A Dictionary of Modern Design
P ublished online May 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 368 words.
Recognized by UNESCO since 2011, Cumulus is a global association that provides a platform for the art, design, media education, and research communities, having set in place a forum for...
Alternative Design
in A Dictionary of Modern Design
P ublished online May 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 214 words.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s there were many writers and thinkers who looked towards alternative ways of living and consuming. These ranged from hippy communities that sought to reject...
Block (1979–89)
in A Dictionary of Modern Design
P ublished online May 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 237 words.
This influential periodical was established at an important time for the development of art, design, and cultural studies in higher education in Britain. Conceived ‘as a vehicle of...
Polynesian outliers
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 1376 words.
Number of atolls and volcanic and raised coral islands on the fringes of Melanesia and Micronesia inhabited by Polynesian-speaking populations. They are frequently grouped together in...
Kansei (2007)
in A Dictionary of Modern Design
P ublished online May 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 267 words.
Led by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the ‘Kansei Value Creation Initiative’ was promoted by the Japanese economic and design community. It sought to promote...
Shaker design
in A Dictionary of Modern Design
P ublished online May 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 187 words.
The clean, well‐proportioned forms of Shaker furniture and artefacts were opposed to the material values of the ornamentation that generally prevailed in 19th‐century industrialized...
Chatham Islands
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art. 679 words.
Group of now largely uninhabited volcanic Polynesian islands in the Pacific Ocean lying c. 700 km south-east of Wellington, New Zealand. Their total area is c. 965 sq. km. Politically,...
Alternative Design
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s there were many writers and thinkers who looked towards alternative ways of living and consuming. These ranged from hippy communities that sought to reject...
Block
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(1979–89)
This influential periodical was established at an important time for the development of art, design, and cultural studies in higher education in Britain. Conceived ‘as a...
Ivan Illich
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(1926–2002)
Illich was one of a number of critical thinkers who, in the 1970s, questioned the ways in which society was organized. Like Ernst Schumacher, author of Small is...
Munich Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(established 1897)
Like a number of other design initiatives in the late 19th century, the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk (United Workshops for Art in Craft) was...
green Design
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
The term ‘green’ became increasingly commonplace in the 1970s and was closely associated with debates relating to environmentalism and ecology. ‘Green’ politics had first emerged in Europe,...
Global Tools
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(1973–5)
Planned as a series of experimental design laboratories or counter‐school of architecture and design, its Italian founder members appeared on the May 1973 cover of the...
International Design Conference in Aspen
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(IDCA)
(established 1949)
The aim of the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA), Colorado, has been to provide an international forum for discussion of the place...
mail order
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art — Law.
Mail order shopping originated in the United States with the launch of the Montgomery Ward catalogue in 1872. This innovation had commenced with single‐sheet listings of goods but soon...
Chartered Society of Designers
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(CSD)
(established 1930)
The origins of the CSD lay in the formation of the Society of Industrial Artists (SIA) in Britain in 1930, a time when the nature and definition...
Council for Art and Industry
Overview page. Subjects: Industrial and Commercial Art.
(CAI)
(1934 to early 1940s)
Announced in the House of Commons in late 1933, the Council for Art and Industry (CAI) was established in response to the 1932 Gorell...
