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Jen Grasso

@brightonphotobooth.bsky.social
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Photobooth technician turned archivist | Digital Content & Systems Coordinator @DesignArchives.bsky.social | 1/2 of the Photobooth Technicians Project tinyurl.com/ymd7kcax | She/her

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ARA Section for Archives & Technology @arasat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join us on Tuesday 21 July for our Annual Review Meeting! 🎉 Hear Jen Grasso (@designarchives.bsky.social) & Rowan Rush-Morgan (@queerinbrighton.bsky.social) share insights into their digital projects. 💻 Online 🕑 11:30–13:00 BST 🎉 Free for ARA members 🎟️ Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-sectio...
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ARA Section for Archives and Technology: Annual Review Meeting
We will start with talks on digital projects, we will then conclude with the formal Annual Review Meeting.
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Centre for Design History's Research Communications Assistant Sylvie Jane Lewis interviews CDH member and the Design Archives Digital Content & Systems Co-ordinator Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social, up now on the CDH blog here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordes...
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Doing Design History | Jen Grasso on Archives and the Digital
CDH Research Communications Assistant Sylvie Jane Lewis interviews CDH member Jen Grasso, Preservation and Digital Content and Systems Co-Ordinator for the university’s Design Archives.     Explori…
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Exhibition designer James Gardner proposed this design for the Stonehenge Visitors Centre in 1993. While unrealised, what better way to mark the summer solstice! James Gardner Archive LJG/3/49
colour illustration of an exhibition design about Stonehenge
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! Here is a letter from from Attenborough shortly after starting with the BBC Television Talks Department to Barbara Jones, congratulating her on her contribution to the BBC TV programme about Coronation Souvenirs, broadcast on 13 February 1953. BJO/4/1/10
a typed letter on BBC letterhead from David Attenborough to Barbara Jones
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Hazards of Work: How to Fight Them, by Patrick Kinnersly Pluto Press, 1973 Cover design by Richard Hollis More about the Richard Hollis archive here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
book cover is white with black and red text
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📣 CfP 📣 ‘Cool Under Pressure: HVAC, Collection Care and the Climate Challenge’ Day Conference, 2027 For more information and how to submit: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/hvac/2026/04...
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CALL FOR PAPERS on the theme of HVAC shutdown | HVAC Shutdown Group
‘Cool Under Pressure: HVAC, Collection Care and the Climate Challenge’ Day Conference, 2027 Sustainability and the reduction of carbon emissions are pr...
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
'Doing Design History - Sirpa Kutilainen on Archive Conservation' Our Preservation and Digital Resources Co-ordinator @sirps.bsky.social talks to Sylvie Jane Lewis at the Centre for Design History about her work in the Design Archives. Up now on the CDH blog: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordes...
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Doing Design History | Sirpa Kutilainen on Archival Conservation
CDH Research Communications Assistant Sylvie Jane Lewis interviews CDH member Sirpa Kutilainen, Preservation and Digital Resources Coordinatory for the university’s Design Archives   Exp…
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 28/04/2026
The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory
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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We’re excited to share a funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership w/us & The National Archives; ‘Surfacing & sharing visual design records through AI-driven datasets’ @cultinformatics.bsky.social More information: www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos... Photos from @designcouncil.bsky.social archive
37 black and white photographs are tiled into one composite image. Photos include designed objects like phones, cameras, glasses, cutlery, cars, toilets, textiles, clothing, packaging and more.
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
'Designing from Home' documentary by @suebreakell.bsky.social @harrietatkinson.bsky.social about FHK Henrion has been shortlisted at the London Independent Film Awards. Tickets for Sunday's screening at 4:00pm at the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel here: www.genesiscinema.co.uk/whatson/film... liff.org
black and white photo of a man sitting outside on a bench outside a brick home. A woman carrying a tray opens a door to join him. Image of FHK Henrion and Daphne Hardy Henrion in the garden of their home in Hampstead, c.1947. Photograph by Anneli Bunyard, courtesy Estate of Anneli Bunyard.
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 07/04/2026
‘Much of the work she made and collected dealt with refusals, renunciations and voids of various sorts.’ Robert Barry reflects on the irony of Christine Kozlov’s relative obscurity in the annals of the history of conceptual art, and welcomes a show of her art at Raven Row in London.
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Christine Kozlov gives us food for thought
The artist’s friends and peers are widely celebrated, so her relative obscurity is a puzzle. It makes a show at London’s Raven Row all the more welcome, writes Robert Barry
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Dorrit Dekk (1917-2014) was a Czech graphic & designer artist known for her playful style. With high profile clients such as the Festival of Britain Land Travelling Exhibition, P&O and Penguin Books, explore Dekk's archive here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi... #womenshistorymonth
newpaper clipping of a woman sitting at a desk pointing at a small version of a mural she painted.
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
'Finding Kraftwerk in the Design Archives' The Design Archives’ Digital Content and Systems Co-Ordinator Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social reflects on some recent cataloguing activity. Read now on our site: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
orange circular case with 'Autobahn 16mm/colour' typed on a cream and brown circular label in the centre
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Artist, writer, designer Barbara Jones (1912-1978) championed popular art. Her archive includes research, manuscripts & original artwork such as her draft artwork for the 1951 exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade at Whitechapel Gallery #womenshistorymonth More here blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
beige paper with various illustrations of eyes in blank ink, pencil and yellow ink
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Enid Marx RDI (1902-1998) was an artist and painter most known for her work on the Utility Furniture Scheme as well as London Transport including this green and red 'Chevron' moquette ca1938-1945 #womenshistorymonth Enid Marx and cat, @designcouncil.bsky.social archive, DCA/30/1/POR/M/41/2
black and white photo of a woman sitting at a drawing table with a kitten on her shouldershades of red and green squares make up a chevron or zig zag design
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Patrick Caulfield: Prints 1964-83 Under the patronage of the British Council in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro. April 9 - May 5, 1985 Poster from the Richard Hollis Archive
Poster for an art exhibition shows a painting of a green square with black lines resembling a fence, there is a hole cut out in one of the planks in the shape of a heart, blue sky is visible through the cutout. A grey rectangle below contains the text about the exhibition
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We’re just finishing up cataloguing the amazing Ali Jacques collection. Ali was a woman of many talents and the collection features her fashion illustrations, acting audition tapes, sketches and drafts of scripts and novels.
A photo album filled with pictures of Ali. Most have been taken in photobooths and show her at various stages of growing out her hair.Two sketch book illustrations. On the left there are five women drawn in various evening gowns. The drawings are line drawings done in biro. On the left there is an illustration of a woman in an oversized blazer with shoulder pads, a flared skirt and leggings.
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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
Zohran smiling on the street
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For a glimpse into university life in the late 19th century, this complaint letter from May 26 1893 from the Brighton School of Art archive. Needless to say campus life in Brighton has come a long way since then!
A typed letter that reads, 'May 26 1893, Dear Sir, I have if you will remember complained more than once of the great nuisance caused by the childrens playing on the school steps, & throwing rubbish, dead cats & fish etc. down the front area: the caretaker has just called my attention again to the state of the area; there are at present six heads of mack[erel] with a quantity of other fish refuse on the ground together with a rotten herring on one of the window panes, & a quantity of entrails hanging from the brickwork of the other win[dow]. Cannot this state of things, constantly re curring be put an end to? or would it be advisable [to] write to the Watch Committee about the same. Yours faithfully
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A look a some of the material taken out for a special visit from the attendees of the Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS) Conference 2025 including material from the FHK Henrion, Alison Settle, Dorrit Dekk, HA Rothholz, Vokins, and @designcouncil.bsky.social archives
metal mid-century sewing machine designed by FHK HenrionTable with archival material laid out including photo albums, advertisements, books, draft artwork, textiles, newspaper clippings, photographs and magazinestwo pages of a book of textile samples. Each swatch is a rectangle and has an ID number of some sort printed or stamped next to it. On the left-hand page are black, green, red and yellow plaid fabric swatches, on the right are multicoloured striped swatchesA selection of Council of Industrial Design / Design Council award winning fabrics from 1958 and 1960 including (top to bottom) 'Adam' furnishing fabric designed by Keith Vaughn which is olive green, black and white, a cream lace curtain, and 4 colourways - black, yellow, blue and pink -  of the print Le Bosquet designed by Shirley Craven
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The Design Archives' own Sirpa Kutilainen @sirps.bsky.social & Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social are speaking at the Archives and Records Association 2025 Conference @araconference.bsky.social in Bristol next week. Read more about their research here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
37 black and white photographs tiled, photos range in subject from packaging to products like scissors, cups, toilets, cameras and other types of product design. All images © Design Council Archive
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
FOOD ALRIGHT IF YOU LIKE STODGE & CUSTARD. MY HAIRDRYER IS REFUSING TO COOPERATE. DOING LOTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS.
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Including the Design Archives' Preservation & Digital Resources Co-ordinator Sirpa Kutilainen @sirps.bsky.social with Amy Sampson from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and their session titled 'Shut down – switch on: empowerment, problem solving and plugging a gap'.
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
For @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYATravel, these postcards of miniatures and model villages in New Romney, Polegate, and Hastings from the Barbara Jones archive. BJO/2/3/1
sepia toned postcard of the gnomes in Rock Gardens, Worlds Smallest Railway, New Romney Stationblack and white postcard of a photograph of a model village, White Rock Gardens, Hastingsblack and white postcard with a photo of Fred Slaymakers Wonder Village, Wannock Gardens, Polegate, Sussex
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 11/06/2025
Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This sucks. Digital sewing patterns are nice but a huge pain in the ass to print out, tape together, and cut, and I find that the quality of the instructions vary WIDELY (some are really not good). Resources like this that I wrote about previously are so important: www.theverge.com/23169321/com...
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The archive saving home sewing history from the trash
Nearly 60,000 sewing patterns preserve and document history.
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Red tickseed @redtickseed.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D
Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into bristol harbour by a joyful crowd
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Masterpeace Design by Emanuel Rapoport & Ophir Paz ICOGRADA/ ICoD Archive ID: ICO/3/53/45
black background with MASTERPEACE written in white letters in the middle
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/05/2025
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Sign the Petition
Defend the Internet Archive
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
American Cancer Society Reprinted with permission from Franklin Watts, Inc. From the books 'Land of Yellow', 'Land of Red', 'Land of Blue', designed by Peter Max Icograda / The ICoD Archive ID: ICO/3/32/97 #WorldHealthDay
A psychedelic poster split into thirds: the top third shows a blue sky with 2 yellow circles/suns and a flying figure, the middle third shows an orange marbled sky with a green striped landscape and orange mountains, with green, pink, orange and white circles/suns across the sky, and the bottom third has a green sky with an orange marbled mountain skyline and a large pink circle in the sky.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/04/2025
How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole ➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...
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Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible!
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
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Old UK Print Ads @oldukprintads.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Mar 1984: Madonna and Siouxsie & The Banshees ads «SIOUXSIE and the BANSHEES»
- Advertisements for a new single, available on 7" and 12" vinyl. A special limited edition included a free poster with the 12" release. The single is taken from the corresponding LP and cassette.
- An advertisement for a musical artist's single release. It includes lyrics from the song and record label information.
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Digital Preservation Coalition has shared recordings from its workflow webinar series. You can find them here: www.dpconline.org/events/previ... #digipres #archives #library 📚
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Digital Preservation Workflow Webinars 2025 - Digital Preservation Coalition
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Event | IOTA II – The Rise and Fall of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, with Dr Zoë Hendon, 13 March 2025 with the Centre for Design History. All welcome and more info here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
A mid-century living room with a woman sitting on a chair reading a book to a young child. The carpet is orange, there are grey speckled tiles around the fireplace and yellow/green wallpaper
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
📣 Call for Papers📣 Proposed Special Issue for the journal Design Issues on the topic of Tangible Archives, co-edited by our Design Archives Director Sue Breakell. Deadline 30 June, more information here: direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
bird's eye view of a table with mixed archive material including newspaper articles by Alison Settle, packaging by Willy De Majo, stamps and menus by HA Rothholz, photographs from Natasha Kroll and a box of ephemera from Barbara Jones
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Designed by Audrey Levy this screenprinted wallpaper 'Impasto' won the Council of Industrial Design's ‘Design of the Year’, 1957. For #internationalwomensday let's celebrate Levy & her designs. @designcouncil.bsky.social Archive, DCA/30/1/POR/L/26/1, DCA/30/7/1957/7/1
black and white portrait of a smiling woman with black glasses, short dark curly hair and a black coat with a flower brooch on the collar. It appears she's holding a tea cup in her left hand and she is looking to the sidegrey, yellow-green and white striped wallpaper
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Help a sister out and sign my petition before my wee witch pricker stalkers on Twitter start gathering the firewood for my burning petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) part of @ukri.org, the Design Archives was awarded funding to continue work addressing sustainability challenges within the archives sector. Read about this ongoing project + what this funding will support here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...
Screen grab of hygrometer readings showing 100% compliance with humidity and temperature thresholds
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The (U.K.) National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations 📜 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...
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The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations - The National Archives
Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Design, February 1959 Cover by I. Bradbery
Cover of Design magazine has horizontal green, yellow and blue stripes with images of different sized pitchers, tea or coffee pots, or jugs
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Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
In celebration of the centenary of the photobooth in 2025, this limited edition print of inventor Anatol Josepho’s Canadian patent for his ‘Photographic Apparatus’ A3 risograph print from www.dopplepress.com on recycled paper Edition of 50 Link in bio 🎈
Black ink illustration of the first photobooth. Shows light bulbs illuminating a man/the subject on the right side, on the left, the inner mechanics of the machine
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Trasufoma @trasufoma.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Jen Grasso @brightonphotobooth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Photo-Me trashed all their analogue booths when restructuring in late 90s so all analogue photobooths today are run by independent people/small companies. I’ve been conducting interviews w/all these techs (incl Ryan below) for a community archive: The Photobooth Technicians Project- link in bio!
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