Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

First World War vehicles as instruments of order and chaos.

This paper examines the image of the Kalashnikov in the cold war period through two intersecting lenses that cut across ... Read more

An examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furn... Read more

Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial.

MoMA’s 1942 Wartime Housing exhibition demonstrated that housing contributed to the war effort. Through innovative displ... Read more

The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of this change, in other words, the examination of the ways, the st... Read more

This paper analyses typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government in WWI to recruit men and money to the wa... Read more

Propaganda: graphic design and print culture This research analyses image and visual graphic design to obtain a deeper u... Read more

On adapted reuse of military establishments. As an analogy to the theory of readymades, the author argues that ‘readymad... Read more

Portuguese design furniture (1940-1974) and the industrial policies of the New State's dictatorship. Through furnishing... Read more

This paper studies some Colombian museums that are reflecting upon war. Colombia’s internal armed conflict has lasted for ... Read more

The paper examines poster propaganda produced in South Africa during the Second World War. The production and use of pr... Read more

Contemporary Design History; History of the AIDS Crisis As Susan Sontag pointed out, the American AIDs epidemic is chara... Read more

Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer effic... Read more

This talk examines the propaganda campaign conducted by mid-nineteenth century American reformer Elihu Burritt and a gro... Read more