International Design Organizations

Jeremy Aynsley is Professor of Design History and founding Director of the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton, UK.Alison J. Clarke is Professor of Design History and Theory and founding Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.Tania Messell is Researcher in Design History at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Basel, Switzerland.

International, regional and national organizations have been essential in negotiating the political, economic and social standings and functions of the design professions since the mid-twentieth century. This volume brings together an impressive array of new research on these networks and their role in the consolidation of the culture and practice of design as we know it today.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction, Jeremy Aynsley (University of Brighton, UK), Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria) and Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)Part One: Professions – Rules – Institutions – Personalities 1. Professional Graphic Design and Cold War Politics: National and Transnational Design Organizations, Dora Souza Dias (Brunel University, UK)2. One Step before Organizations: Networks, Actors and Trajectories in Argentine Design (1938-1962), Verónica Devalle (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)3. International Design Organizations and Emigré Identity: Peter Muller-Munk and American Representation in ICSID, 1950-1967, Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)4. International Design Organizations as Global Design Advocates: Romance, Reality and Relevance? Jonathan M. Woodham (University of Brighton, UK)Part Two: National - International – Transnational5. Becoming the International Design Conference in Aspen, Robert Gordon-Fogelson (University of Southern California, USA)6. ALADI, a Latin American Voice of Design, Juan Buitrago (University of the Valley, Colombia)7. Internationalizing Japanese Graphic Design: From the Pre-War Period to Today, Yasuko Suga-Ida (Tsuda University, Japan)8. Shaping National and International Design Policies: the Transnational Trajectory of the Belgian Policymaker Josine des Cressonnières (1926-1985), Katarina Serulus (KU Leuven, Belgium)Part Three: Design Definitions - Epistemologies - Differences9. Negotiating Graphic Design between National and International Design Organizations: the Case of the Associazione per il Design Industriale in Milan, Chiara Barbieri (ECAL, Switzerland)10. Tööstuskunsti Komitee: a Case Study of an Invisible Design Organization in Soviet Estonia, Tr’in Jerlei (Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia)11. Design for Development, ICSID and UNIDO: the Anthropological Turn in 1970s Design, Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)12. No “Good Design” Would Come of It: The International Design Conference in Aspen, 1977–2004, Penelope Dean (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)13. XIN, A Message with Strategic Vision - An Analysis of the Meaning of the 2009 Icograda Bei-jing Congress, Yun Wang (China Design Museum, Republic of China)Select Bibliography