Dr Catherine Moriarty (above) said the University of Brighton's Design Archives had scored "a major coup"
Nimble-fingered experts have triumphed in a long-running battle to win a £180,000 grant for a vault of revealing material from 20th century British design at the University of Brighton.
The Design Archives, held at the institution’s Grand Parade Faculty of Arts, will be given an annual £60,000 windfall for three years from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, establishing it as one of the leading collections in the country alongside the likes of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery and Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
“The Design Archives being recognised as having international significance is a major coup,” said Dr Catherine Moriarty, the Curatorial Director of the set of 18 groups of visual and textual mementoes, which includes photographs and documents from the history of the design profession.
"We have argued and demonstrated their research value long and hard and it is a real achievement for our small team, for the faculty and for the university."
Other new winners of HEFCE awards include the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University and the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, which will both receive £90,000 each in the next academic year. Visit the Council’s funding allocations page for the full list.
