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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · 8d

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · 8d

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

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A Material World @amaterialworld.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are delighted to announce that A Material World will be returning for our 6th year of events @warburginstitute.bsky.social. The theme for this year is Encounters.

Full programme to be announced soon.

#materialculture #arthistory #history #globalhistory

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 28d

✨ Call for Papers ✨
AGENCIES AND TEMPORALITIES IN COMPLEX ARTEFACTS FROM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (C. 1000–1600)
What if medieval artefacts weren’t “finished” objects, but living works in progress?
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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

#OutNow: Object-Based Learning by Thomas Kador

This textbook offers an up-to-date perspective on the theories and practices of object-based learning, as well as practical case studies & exercises.

Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/object-...

#ObjectBasedLearning #MaterialCulture #Museums

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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · Sep 3

From counterculture to #design icon, @stevenheller.bsky.social's story is one of rebellion & creativity. Read about his 40-year legacy #DesignHistory #GraphicDesign #Innovation newartschool.education/2024/05/20/d...

Steven Heller: A Life in Design, History, and Education

Heller stands as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the field. His impact spans generations, disciplines and continents, shaping not only how we see design, but how we think about …

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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · Aug 15

🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026

Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

Call for Papers. The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity. An Interdisciplinary Conference. 8-9 January, 2026
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Proposal Deadline: 22 September 2025

What do hands reveal about us?
We invite abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes, for presentation at our 2-day interdisciplinary conference, part of The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present, supported by UKRI.

We welcome presentations from multi- and interdisciplinary research fields, including Critical Studies, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM.
We encourage proposals from artists, makers and performers.
Image includes an illustration of magnetism, a Victorian man sitting under 3 hands, 2 of whom have lines of magnetic power emanating onto his head and shoulders

Please send abstracts up to 300 words, and biographies up to 100 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025
Read the full call at thevictorianhand.uk/call-for-papers-the-hand

Image features the 3 logos of Lancaster University, UAL and UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Aug 31

Charles E. Murphy’s Command Records sleeves merged illustration and abstraction. Read more at designreviewed.com/illustrating...
#AlbumCovers #DesignHistory #Modernism

Illustrating Sound: Charles E. Murphy and Command Records - Design Reviewed

Command Records was founded by Enoch Light in 1959, their record sleeves can be distinguished by their bold, illustrated, and abstract cover designs, created by a range of designers.

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Aug 31

Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Aug 28

George Giusti designed 40+ covers for Command Records.https://designreviewed.com/illustrating-sound-george-giusti-and-command-records/
#GeorgeGiusti #AlbumDesign #DesignHistory

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KrishinAsnani @krishinasnani.bsky.social · Aug 28

@architecturehub.bsky.social
Eames Chairs at SF’s Transamerica Building felt like a cultural wake—bright, precise, once projecting US authority, now in elegant decline. My essay:
krishinasnani.substack.com/p/chairs-at-...
#EamesChairs #DesignHistory #Architecture#CulturalCriticism

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Aug 29

Erwin Poell’s 1960s data visualisations for n+m made science accessible. Read more at designreviewed.com/illustrating...
#DataViz #DesignHistory #InformationDesign

Illustrating Science. Erwin Poell and naturwissenschaft+technik Magazine - Design Reviewed

Last year (2024), I came across a selection of his design work for n+m: Naturwissenschaft und Medizin (Natural Science and Medicine) magazine. Erwin Poell's work for n+m magazine, which was published ...

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Aug 30

Support independent design history. Membership is less than a coffee designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignHistory #Membership #PreserveDesign

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ready to start your career in Publishing? Based in or around #Manchester?
We're delighted to be working with training provider LDN Apprenticeships to recruit our first Apprentice Publishing Support Assistant.

More info here: www.independentpublishersguild.com/IPG/Jobs_Boa...
Deadline 5th September.

Apprentice Publishing Support Assistant

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · Aug 11

✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Aug 26

Call for Book Review Editors for H-Material Culture. If you're interested, get in touch by sending an email to [email protected] and we'll follow up! #MaterialCulture

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · Aug 4

CFP📣!! 'The Samhain Industry in Ireland', a 1 day symposium, Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie Ireland, 29 Oct 2025. Potential topics include: cultural policy, tourism, digital media, environment, #folklore, LGBTQI+, postcolonialism. Abstracts by 17 Sept👻
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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · Aug 25

CFP: The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition, session(s) at the 2026 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 6–9, 2026. Submissions due September 14, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-mat...

The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition | Mary Jaharis Center

There are currently no approaching deadlines.

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Episode of Hagley History Hangout Podcast: The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950 with Joël Praz #MaterialCulture www.hagley.org/research/his...

The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950 | Hagley

Building international cooperation is a slow, painstaking process, one made more difficult when some people don’t see the need for it. To businesses, however, international cooperation is positively n...

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Aug 26

Announcement: The Watson Collection is now available to view online. It is part of University of Oxford's broader Their Finest Hour Online Archive (theirfinesthour.org), a 2022-24 project that digitally preserved 25,000+ stories and objects from WW2 shared by the UK public. #MaterialCulture

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Aug 26

CFP: International Conference of Europeanists, June 16-18, 2026, University College Dublin. Theme: Integrity, Solidarity, and Unity: Hopes and Realities of the European Future. Applications due: Oct 8. #MaterialCulture
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2026 Conference in Dublin – Council for European Studies

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Aug 25

Every member helps digitise and preserve fragile artefacts for articles and education. Support the archive at designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignArchive #PreserveDesign #DesignHistory

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Journal of Design History @jodesignhistory.bsky.social · Aug 23

NEW advance article! A Spirited Way to a Rational Home: Cultivating Normativity through the Victorian Spiritualist Interior by Vanessa Galvin. Read this open access article at academic.oup.com/jdh/article/...
#JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #DomesticLife #Interior

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

Guys a new vocatio newsletter on medieval material culture just dropped. Links about reenactor and maker blogs, leatherwork from Oslo, Hapsburg fire-lances, and a sword called Brok. https://ageofdatini.info/vocationes.html #histodons #materialculture

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H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · Aug 12

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] by September 1, 2025. #MaterialCulture

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