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April 01 2010
Formulating National Design Policies in the United States: Recycling the “Emperor's New Clothes”?
Jonathan M. Woodham
Jonathan M. Woodham
Jonathan M. Woodham is Professor of Design History at the University of Brighton where he directs the Centre for Research & Development (Arts) and established the University's Design Archives in 1994 with the acquisition of the Design Council Archive. He has written and lectured extensively on many aspects of design and design history for more than thirty years, his best known book being Twentieth Century Design, published by Oxford University Press (1997), with worldwide sales of around 50,000 volumes. More recently he authored the Dictionary of Modern Design for Oxford University Press (2005). Since 1985, he has been invited to deliver keynote addresses in more than twenty countries and has been a member of a number of editorial and editorial advisory boards of leading design-related journals, including Design Issues and the Journal of Design History, the latter since its inception in 1988.
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Jonathan M. Woodham
Jonathan M. Woodham is Professor of Design History at the University of Brighton where he directs the Centre for Research & Development (Arts) and established the University's Design Archives in 1994 with the acquisition of the Design Council Archive. He has written and lectured extensively on many aspects of design and design history for more than thirty years, his best known book being Twentieth Century Design, published by Oxford University Press (1997), with worldwide sales of around 50,000 volumes. More recently he authored the Dictionary of Modern Design for Oxford University Press (2005). Since 1985, he has been invited to deliver keynote addresses in more than twenty countries and has been a member of a number of editorial and editorial advisory boards of leading design-related journals, including Design Issues and the Journal of Design History, the latter since its inception in 1988.
Online Issn: 1531-4790
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© 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010
Design Issues (2010) 26 (2): 27–46.
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Jonathan M. Woodham; Formulating National Design Policies in the United States: Recycling the “Emperor's New Clothes”?. Design Issues 2010; 26 (2): 27–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00003
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